English is not my main language so this was a significant and funny “A-ha!” moment for me.
They’re not nuts that resemble peas, they’re peas that resemble nuts.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by NONE_dc@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
English is not my main language so this was a significant and funny “A-ha!” moment for me.
They’re not nuts that resemble peas, they’re peas that resemble nuts.
Nutpeas.
Charlie Brown saying “good grief”
(I was very confused by the thread title)
Same. I was over here thinking “is the world we live in just a closed pod, are we alone in here?” like it was maybe really deep and inspiring
They are more “pea” than “nut”, though. They are a legume.
Well, pineapple aren’t apples and starfishes aren’t even fish, so…
Pen. Pineapple. Apple. Pen.
When literally every other language said “ananas”, English panicked and mentally combined the concept of a pinecone and a freakin’ apple
By that logic, pea should be called peapeapeapeapeapeapea
There’s a type of pea which is called “Kiechererbse” in German. “Erbse” is the German word for pea. And “Kiecher” is the old German word for pea.
I think they’re actually legumes, not nuts.
If you can find some that are not roasted, this actually becomes quite obvious. They do taste a lot like peas.
3rd rock from the sun did a whole episode on this, starring the woman who played Roseannes sister as Dick’s new love interest.
25 years later, and I still pronounce legume the way they did in that episode as I recite this fact.
English is my 1st language and I didn’t realize this until you just pointed it out.
Get an uncooked one and eat it. It tastes like peas.
sxan@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
It’s because the pea is stored in the nuts.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s SCIENCE