• Securificatr@infosec.pub
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    In Botany, Watermelons and Tomatoes are both categorized as Berries, along with pumpkins, avocados, cucumbers and bananas. Strawberries, raspberries and blackberries, however, are not.

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    Knowledge it is, to know a fruit, you are. Wisdom it is, to put you in our fruit salad, we must not.

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      INT: knowing tomatoes are fruits
      WIS: understanding that they don’t belong in a fruit salad
      CHA: doing it anyway and selling it as ‘salsa’

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        Cooking is all made up anyways. Plus “you wouldn’t put it in a fruit salad” sounds like an argument made up purely to counter the pedantry of bringing up botany definitions. Like the first one (“these are actually fruits/berries!”) seems like fun and interesting while “but you wouldn’t put them in a fruit salad” just seems like a lame one up from someone who needs to get the last word in, like they need to warn people against making tomato pies or some shit where understanding the botany definition is dangerous to cooking.

  • BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works
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    Everybody discussing whether or not tomatoes are a fruit, meanwhile, mushrooms hanging out with the vegetables, despite not even being a plant.

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    For people who don’t get it - this is a scene from the Star War.

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    Not only are they both fruit, but this might blow your mind: Both a tomato and a watermelon are classified as “berries.”

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    I was told advocado is a fruit when I couldn’t find it on the self checkout (fruits/vegetables) and I said something like has it changed again? She said she always thought it was a fruit so I cheesily asked if she put advocado in her fruit salad and she said Yes!

    It was a nice informal fun banter chit chat but now I wonder if it’s not a good idea…

    Has anyone tried advocado in their fruit salad?