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Strawberries are nuts 🍓

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨fossilesque@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • meyotch@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Strawberry seeds are designed by a malevolent god to stick perfectly in human front teeth.

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    • miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Raspberry seeds make fun of strawberry seeds.

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      • lolrightythen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I have a chia seed from 1973 in the back of my mouth.

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    • Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They are made to stay a long time in hosts so that they can spread farther

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  • lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    strawberries are accessory fruits, not nuts.

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    • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      But they’re covered in nuts

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      • 0ops@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Kinda like your mom last night

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    • gigachad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      …which is exactly what the third comment is saying

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      • stray@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        If you took all the seeds off a strawberry, it’d still be a strawberry. A bowl full of strawberry nuts is not a bowl of strawberries.

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    • chetradley@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Image

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  • shoki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Why is microsoft from Germany writing in English? Why don’t they just post it on their mein Account which actually has a primarely English-speaking audience?

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    • f314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The original post (not shown in the screenshot) is from PBS, that’s why it says “Author” by their name. If it was in English (likely) it makes sense to answer in English as well.

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  • stray@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Achenes are not nuts.

    (1) Achene. A small hard indehiscent fruit. The term is strictly only applied to those formed from one carpel, but is sometimes used for those formed from two carpels (e.g. the fruit of the Compositae). The latter is better termed a cypsela.

    (2) Nut. This is similar to an achene, but is typically formed from two or three carpels (e.g. dock fruit).

    www.sciencedirect.com/topics/…/achene

    i. Achene - A one-seeded, dry, indehiscent fruit; the one seed is attached to the fruit wall at a single point.

    ii. Nut - A dry, indehiscent, one seeded fruit similar to an achene but with the wall greatly thickened and hardened.

    courses.botany.wisc.edu/…/LabWK03Fruitkey.html

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    • Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Also, even if they were, it wouldn’t make the strawberry a nut. It would make it covered in nuts.

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    • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Thank you! 👏

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    • apotheotic@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The term is strictly only applied to those formed from one carpel, but is sometimes used for those formed from two carpels

      It is strictly only applied to ones with one carpel, but is used anyway to refer to ones with two carpels? That’s not confusing at all

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  • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    To me arguing over which fruit belongs in which category is a prime example of people arguing over shadows in Plato’s cave. Not that it’s a waste of time or anything but sometimes people act like tomatoes won’t grow if you call them vegetables. Like at the end of the day it’s just humans developing a system to make sense of nature rather than discovering an inherent, pre-existing system.

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    • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Like at the end of the day it’s just humans developing a system to make sense of nature

      The core of the matter is that we have multiple, mutually incompatible schemes sharing in part the same terminology. Biology is not cooking, both fields care about vastly different things thus the categorisation scheme is different, that’s the end of it. Culinarily, tomatoes have too much umami to be fruit. Botanically peppermint is an aromatic, I recommend you not put it into your soffritto.

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      • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Oh, this is actually a perfect example of the arbitreity of mapping systems!

        A looong time ago on reddit, I got into an argument with someone who was doing that thing where you confuse the map for the object itself. We were mostly talking about the chemistry table. But anyway, he just could not see how a change in motivation, that is what the map designer finds useful, could change how the map is arranged.

        I mean, I don’t think this would convince him: he would just say the culinary version isn’t real. But still, I really like it.

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      • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You never had tomato pie? It would likely change your idea of what too much savoriness is.

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      • P00ptart@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        “Botanically” “culinary” “terminology” “biology” and then you say umami seriously. Which is entirely made up.

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    • cute_noker@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I totally agree. It is completely nonsense to say. In other languages it is different. I just know some Spanish, but they don’t have a word for berries or nuts, it is all just fruit. (Forrest fruit for berries or dried fruit for nuts) but they don’t call potatoes vegetables, but “tuberculo”. Interesting difference, which i guess is because they have another climate and other plants.

      We do just call it a vegetable in my language.

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      • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Bayas y nueces… Tubérculo is closer to the botanical definition because it is a tuber (storage organ) and not a fruit (like most vegetables). And I would think that tubérculo could be any tuber vegetable, not just papas/patatas

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    • anzo@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Technically, the pre-existing system could be evolutionary biology. I’m just saying that in some cases, a little bit of pedantry is enjoyable. It’s an acquired taste, maybe

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  • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’ve heard every combination of <food> is actually <plant part> that any time anyone says this type of sentence, I just roll my eyes

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    • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Cabbages are actually tree trunks

      Raspberries are actually tubers

      Wheat is actually a berry

      And oranges are actually an eldritch, ante-dimensional horror perpetrated by intelligent, unseen beings

      Also acorns are the progenitors of oranges.

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      • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Potatoes

        are actually an eldritch, ante-dimensional horror perpetrated by intelligent, unseen beings

        too.

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    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah it’s just meaningless factoids to me now.

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  • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So what this nerd is saying is that we can milk a strawberry??

    Before the tech gets there, let’s compression some “art” on that subject?

    (For real, the seeds being nuts is a stretch)

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    • stray@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Strawberries do not have nipples. :(

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      • ebolapie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        If strawberries do not have nipples, then where does strawberry milk come from?

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  • ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I want to fill a spoon with strawberry seeds and see how it tastes

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    • LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You gotta shell them first.

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  • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Like cashews!

    I thought nuts had to come from trees, though.

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    • PunnyName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      There’s a legumes joke in there, but I dunno.

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      • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Peanuts claim to be nuts, but they aren’t a legumtimate part of the family.

        I dunno.

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    • stray@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Sorry if I’m misunderstanding your post, but cashews are not drupes, not nuts. I don’t know whether all true nuts come from trees, but all the ones I can think of do.

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      • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Strawberries sure as hell aren’t nuts either but we’re playing pretty fast and loose with words and meanings.

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    • ebolapie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      What is a tree?

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      • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Although “tree” is a common word, there is no universally recognised precise definition of what a tree is, either botanically or in common language.[1][2] In its broadest sense, a tree is any plant with the general form of an elongated stem, or trunk, which supports the photosynthetic leaves or branches at some distance above the ground.

        Well damn, I guess strawberries can be trees and nuts.

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  • Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    While peanuts are not nuts, but legumes.

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    • Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I hereby christen thee, pealegumes.

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  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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    • TheImpressiveX@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You need to put an exclamation mark (!) before you insert the image, like this:

      ![](https://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20111228.gif)

      Image

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      • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Thanks. I don’t comment much anymore.

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  • Pulptastic@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Like cashews?

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  • arsCynic@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Microsoft feigning innocence by utilizing trivia to district us from their highly unethical business practices. Screw Microsoft. Use Linux 🐧.

    - -
    ✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

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  • ChexMax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Is this why strawberries are common allergens? Like so much more common than other fruits?

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  • kokesh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This is nuts!

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  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Strawberry nut flour - it’s gluten free!

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  • asteriskeverything@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I wonder if people are allergic to strawberries are just allergic to the seeds then

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  • grandpaST@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Smelling roses has always reminded me of strawberries, although people think that’s strange. Taste and smell are connected and this explains it.

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