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[–] 92 points 5 months ago (8 children)
  • [–] 46 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

    What keeps a peach from being a single-seed berry or from an avocado being a drupe?

    Edit: low-key love that we are all learning by sharing knowledge and evidence. It's refreshing.

    Edit 2: Fun Fact. Did you know Oklahoma has Watermelon as the State's Vegetable?

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    In other words, by my understanding, peaches have a pit containing their seeds, but avocados just have a seed.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    We call it that but the whole thing is just a big ol seed

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Drupes have pits contained within a hard shell (I guess called an endocarp?).

    Peach pits look like an almond inside of a walnut shell basically. Avocados just have a really large seed in direct contact with the buttery soft mesocarp.

    I don't know who decided to classify gourds, melons, and citrus fruits as berries, but I imagine they had mischief in mind...

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  • [–] 38 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Aubergines, cucumbers, kiwi, and citrusfruit are botanical berries as well. The correct answer is that berry should be seen as a culinary term just like fruit and vegetable.

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  • [–] 27 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Not only that, banana is a grass berry.

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Fruit is sweet, vegetables are savory, berries are what I declare to be a berry. Done and done

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  • [–] 17 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Most "fruit" are sweet because we made them so. And we did so with plenty of vegetables too.

    Sweetest thing in my garden are tomatoes.

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  • Mushrooms in the vegetable section hoping no one calls them out

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago

    Humans accidentally named blueberries correctly.

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  • [–] 11 points 5 months ago

    Berries aren't berries. Vegetables aren't real.

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  • [+] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)
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    I didn't know plants have ovaries. Does that mean that strawberries are like an afterbirth? Are seedless fruit menstrual flow?

    Maybe humans could evolve so that the bloody placenta attracts wolves who then raise the baby.

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    [–] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    Now I need to know if Blackberry is a berry.

    *No:

    The usually black fruit is not a berry in the botanical sense, as it is termed botanically as an aggregate fruit, composed of small drupelets.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    At times like these I'm kinda ok with portuguese lacking a "proper" word for berry. "Bago" or "baga" isn't really used, at least not in everyday life, everyone will always refer to them as fruits

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    It's the same as tomato being taxonomically a fruit. Taxonomically does not mean culinarily. Most people use culinary terms for these. Tomato is a vegetable. The first berry group is berries. Etc.

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  • All could’ve been solved with some inclusivity, but nooo…

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