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[–] Pogbom@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Also tomatoes are fruits so suck it Italy

[–] LavenderDay3544@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'll give them that one because they taste like they should be vegetables but science says otherwise.

[–] Shapillon@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Otoh the fruit/veggie dinstinction is from culinary tradition and has nothing to do with botanical sciences.

[–] Bertuccio@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't particularly mind the culinary fruit/vegetable definition, but feel like sweet fruits/savory fruits/vegetables would have been clearer.

[–] Shapillon@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Durian would've been a fruitable :p

[–] LavenderDay3544@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's interesting.

It's like how peanuts are legumes and not nuts. But I feel like that makes sense because of the pods.

[–] Shapillon@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah and they grow in the ground too.

A distinction that I find more entertaining than the fruit/veggie one is the berry category.

  • blueberry: not a berry
  • blackberry: nuh-uh
  • Strawberry: you're an accessory fruit
  • banana: yup, totally a berry
  • watermelon: go for it

That's nuts

[–] LavenderDay3544@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Who makes these rules? They're so unintuitive.

[–] Shapillon@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

These rules are made by botanists.

A berry is a fleshy fruit without a pit produced by a single flower containing a single ovary.

This definition is different from the colloquial culinary one which refers to anything small, growing on a small plant or bush and without a pit.