• @Shapillon
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    218 days ago

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

    • @Bertuccio
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      217 days ago

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

      • @Shapillon
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        117 days ago

        Durian would’ve been a fruitable :p

    • @LavenderDay3544
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      118 days ago

      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
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        117 days ago

        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

          • @Shapillon
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            217 days 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.