TIL Bananas are berries that grow on giant herbs
TIL Bananas are berries that grow on giant herbs
Banana trees are made up of giant leaves, not a trunk. So they're more like a giant onion instead of a tree.
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I’ve gone down the rabbit hole. Depending on culinary, scientific, or horticulture, nobody agrees on what things are classified as.
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Exactly? Sorry, nerds ruined this one.
You know what a fruit and a vegetable are. It has nothing to do where the seeds are. Botanists don't get to change the English language.
Like everything else in English, you'll figure it out from context.
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Vegetables don't exist botanically and fruit has a very different meaning in a botanical context when compared to the culinary definition
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Intelligence is knowing tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
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Salsa is a tomato based fruit salad. (I don't take credit for this, I read it somewhere)
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You can still consider roots, stems, and leaves as vegetables.
Of course you have to be more stringent with fruits, and nuts/seeds imo are in a category of their own.
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We're not talking about whether something is a fruit or a vegetable lmao
This is about what kind of fruit something is, e.g. a berry vs a drupe
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