FFTFY:
Honestly Bizarre
Submitted 2 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Klear@quokk.au 2 months ago
TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Not fixed as ‘content not viewable in your region’
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
VPNs are cheap
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
I always categorized them as a snake
spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Big Mushroom is taking the slow play, and frankly, it’s impressive
Taldan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why you hatin’ on mushrooms? They’re a fungi, if you get to know 'em
Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fruit has a botanical and a culinary definition.
Vegetable only has a culinary definition.
Trying to decide on what food fits which category purely on the botanical definition of fruit is silly. In many other languages, the botanical and culinary definition even use completely different words. It’s like saying lobster is red meat using the scientific definition of red.
But if we are having fun with this, rhubarb: definitely no fruit, far too sweet to fit nicely into vegetable.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Rhubab’s just sour celery
Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
But if we are having fun with this, rhubarb: definitely no fruit, far too sweet to fit nicely into vegetable.
Oh boy, another reason to hate rhubarb.
Also, you want a sweet vegetable? Sugar beet.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
raw unprocessed sugar cane is delicious
FishFace@piefed.social 2 months ago
THANK YOU
blackbrook@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Well vegetable used to be used sometimes to mean “plant”.
Most people don’t really understand how words work.
tlmcleod@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Vegetation. It’s right there in the root lol you’re 100% correct with people not getting how words work
blibla@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
it becomes somewhat interesting when fruit is differently taxed then vegetables.
As was the case in a Supreme Court Ruling:
bountygiver@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Having both definition of the same word that can be confused with each other is also silly, the culinary definition should find a new word.
TheBat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fucking
Fucking
Vespair@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I’m sorry, who exactly is out here calling mushrooms vegetables??
azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
If it goes in soup, it’s a vegetable. If it goes in Sangria, it’s a fruit.
Next question please.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hmmm. Since breakfast cereal is demonstrably soup, that makes strawberries, Cheerios, and Reese’s Puffs all vegetables. Good to know.
moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub 2 months ago
So water, salt, cheese, meat, and noodles are all vegetables?
pitaya@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Is water a fruit or a vegetable
Vespair@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
As always, science sets us free.
meadsteve@reddthat.com 2 months ago
I absolutely call them vegetables. It’s a kitchen term and it absolutely makes sense to categorise them alongside tomatoes, beans, carrots, squash and cabbage. People get too hung up on things only belonging to exactly one category.
7bicycles@hexbear.net 2 months ago
Seriously this whole thing is not a problem at all unless you’re somehow not familiar with words having more meaning. It’s a fruit (botanically) and not a fruit (culinary). I don’t understand how we’ve gotten like 40 years of discussion out of it at this point.
BussyCat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Take a piece of paper with 3 squares drawn on it
And hand a person a picture of an apple, tomato, pepper, cucumber, pork cutlet, and mushroom and ask them to put the pictures into the squares and then label each square
Average person will definitely label a box as vegetables and put the mushrooms in it
Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 months ago
Well if you tell me to use only three categories and one of them will obviously be “meat”, then I won’t put them with apples.
Vespair@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Why are we starting this scenario with the arbitrary restriction of 3? Yes, if you give people any number of items and tell them there is a finite number of categories, they were will find a way to divide those items into three. That doesn’t mean they wouldn’t come up with a more compelling argument for their choices when told to divide into 4 groups.
At no point have our options ever only been “fruit or vegetable,” but yeah I guess if you tell people those are their only choices of course they’ll adhere. But like… I’ve never known anyone who though those were the only choices?
Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I believe, it’s a US thing. This is a quote from the official Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA):
Other Vegetables: All other fresh, frozen, and canned vegetables, cooked or raw: for example, asparagus, avocado, bamboo shoots, beets, bitter melon, Brussels sprouts, cabbage (green, red, napa, savoy), cactus pads (nopales), cauliflower, celery, chayote (mirliton), cucumber, eggplant, green beans, kohlrabi, luffa, mushrooms, okra, onions, radish, rutabaga, seaweed, snow peas, summer squash, tomatillos, and turnips.
Source: dietaryguidelines.gov/…/Dietary_Guidelines_for_Am… (page 28)
I’ve read elsewhere that the reason for the DGA to conflate them, is because mushrooms have comparable nutrients to vegetables. So, from a dietary and regulatory viewpoint, it makes some amount of sense. But yeah, I feel like you could have just had a category “vegetables & mushrooms”.
Vespair@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I am American.
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Most.
devedeset@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I know this is probably a repost but the self-censorship is super annoying and has entered the lexicon in ways that can permanently damage human communication as a whole.
Yeah sure censor stuff from kid shows but we’re at the point where “unalive” and “pdf file” are being used as code words. Everyone knows what they mean, even the censors.
Scrollone@feddit.it 2 months ago
100% agree, we live in a 1984 age.
Also, using stupid words such as unalive doesn’t make any sense because the algorithm of social media companies knows exactly what it means.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Its coming from Tiktok. Bytedance had heavy word censorship and if one of your comments or videos was flagged as inappropriate and had one of those words your account would be automatically suspended for review.
So a lot of normal westerm words got flagged. Kill. Dead. Any word related to sex. Hole. (Lol) basically every curse word.
Then there are gray words like Pedophile where people think it changes the algorithm to show your videos less if they contain them, but no one has any proof from what I can tell.
Nikls94@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I use things like “he has chosen to meet his ancestors right then and there”
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
It’s also extremely weird because people often just default to the “hidden meaning” completely ignoring context. There were so many instances where I was being shouted at for writing “CP” *on the Cyberpunk subreddit, it was just weird…
obsoleteacct@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
It’s annoying that its driven by ad revenues, and made more dumb by the fact that if everyone can decode it, then they’re still advertising over sex and violence. So the whole endeavor is pointless.
But I don’t think it will cause any harm. Humans have been using slang, code, and memetic language to obscure meaning from others and identify their in-crowds since the dawn of human language. Some of it is dumber than others, but it won’t cause any harm.
buttnugget@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There is absolutely no chance that this idiotic self censorship can permanently damage human communication.
Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
We just ignoring the mushrooms are also fruit(ing bodie)s?
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I was going to bring it up if no one else did
flora_explora@beehaw.org 2 months ago
You mean, we apply plant language to them so they are also like plants? They are closer related to us though…
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There certainly are feelings associated with the fact that we can analyze the DNA of rots
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
VEGETABLES DO NOT EXIST
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 2 months ago
My wife and I like to joke that vegetables aren’t real and all of them are just something else in reality.
ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You’re correct! “Vegetable” is a culinary term. “Fruit” is both botanical and culinary. The “tomato isn’t a fruit” nonsense comes from people trying to conflate the two; if we called botanical fruits “grunkles” we wouldn’t have this problem.
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
All in favor of renaming botanical fruits to “gruntled”?
Aye
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 months ago
I have a simple flowchart to determine what is or isn’t a veggie:
> Can I eat it? -> Yes -> Does it come from an animal? -> No = Vegetable
RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Rice, my favorite vegetable.
davidgro@lemmy.world 2 months ago
… Is it not?
Being a grain (or even specifically a “Cereal grain”) doesn’t exclude it, see corn.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
That’s why they call you the bread man.
Hasherm0n@lemmy.world 2 months ago
UrPartnerInCrime@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Intelligence is knowing tomatoes are a fruit
Wisom is knowing to never add it to a fruit salad
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
fucking fucking
HowAbt2day@futurology.today 2 months ago
How about shrimps and lobsters sneaking into the animal club while they are insects? Cockroaches of the sea and shit. Nah mean?
ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s the difference between the culinary use of the word and the biological use of the word. I thought we already figured that out?
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Tomatoes are biologically fruit, but culinary they are a vegetable.
You wouldn’t expect them to put an orange slice on your burger because you asked for some veg, would you? But you’d expect tomatoes.
tresspass@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The thing is too that mushrooms don’t even cook like vegetables or even like a protein or anything. So not only are they not botanically vegetables, they aren’t even culinarily vegetables either.
Also if you don’t like mushrooms because of the texture, you’re probably cooking your mushrooms wrong.
PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Mushrooms are detachable fungal penises that jizz into the wind.
Beacon@fedia.io 2 months ago
When people say that they are wrong. There are two different definitions for the word "fruit". They're homonyms for completely different words. It's like if i ask you: Which is lighter, a black Mini Cooper, or a white Hummer? Depends on which definition of "lighter" you're asking about
FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I had always learned if it has seeds (in nature) then it was a fruit, otherwise it was a vegetable or something else
moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub 2 months ago
What? Who’s calling pumpkins, squashes, and cucumbers vegetables?
And no one calls mushrooms vegetables: mushrooms are mushrooms.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
All fruits are vegetables.
LorIps@lemmy.world 2 months ago
fucking fucking
RoabeArt@hexbear.net 2 months ago
Aren’t fruits technically vegetables anyway? Like isn’t a “vegetable” simply any edible part of a plant?
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The fucking mushrooms.
Cruxifux@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Tomatoes will always be a vegetable to me. And I base that entirely on vibes.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
In spanish tomatoes are called “hortalizas”, the others are “verduras” apart of “frutas”, fruits, in english only traduced with vegetables and fruits. Maybe because Spain has a better food culture. Mushrooms are something in between plants and animals in a separate genre. The US anyway differences only protein, sugar and decoration, tomatoes in Bottles from Heinz.
CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn@hexbear.net 2 months ago
Vegetable is a culinary category, with no botanical/biological definition. I don’t see a reason why mushrooms don’t belong in it.
danc4498@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Vegetables aren’t real. They made up the classification just to sell things that aren’t fruits.
owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Big Celery just trying to legitimize crunchy water
NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 2 months ago
I could go for some refreshingly crunchy big celery right now
I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Same with nuts. Botanically, not a thing.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
johnny is human tho
HowAbt2day@futurology.today 2 months ago
Now this a QAnon theory I can align with. #finally
HowAbt2day@futurology.today 2 months ago
Now this a QAnon theory I can align with. #finally
HowAbt2day@futurology.today 2 months ago
Now this a QAnon theory I can align with. #finally