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[–] logflume@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

berry good post

[–] MaxOS@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Posadas@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So are cucumbers, pumpkins, zucchini, oranges, tangerines, lemons, limes, cantaloupes and watermelons.

[–] AlicePraxis@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

if I asked someone what their favorite berry is and they said "avocado" I'd punch them in the face

[–] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's a fun fact: your a huge nerd lmao

[–] Posadas@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Takes one to know one

[–] flan@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

you know words are just what we call things alright. Berries have berry in their name, not-berries don't. Simple as.

[–] Posadas@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you telling me this egg is a plant!!!

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[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Genuinely had a coworker who thought eggs were vegan because they came from an eggplant. As the conversation continued I found out she also didn't know pork came from pigs and beef from cows.

[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Supermarkets and their consequences smh

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unironically yes - as she said, she'd only ever encountered them at the store, she'd never actually seen a cow or chicken up close before.

[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Being that divorced from the actual world is completely baffling to me. How do they expect things to get to where they are? Do they have to be reminded to breath and put one foot in front of the other to walk?

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly it's not an uncommon state where I live. What relevence does knowing where your food comes from really have, when you're working a 60 hour week to pay for your rent and childcare? What use does learning animal biology have when you're never going to have the opportunity to go to university? Most people in my area can expect to flip burgers, become a carer, or if they're lucky get apprenticed to a tradie. Their lives will largely be confined to all of 10sq miles. Their entire lives have been so heavily propagandised and lacking in opportunities that going to a different city is an extremely rare and novel experience. Not knowing where eggs comes from is really the least of their problems.

[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a totally reasonable answer and was an unfair assumption on my part. I grew up in an area where people hunted and fished because there wasn't any stores around, and therefore everyone knew where their food came from. Not really living in urban areas means i have had very little chances of meeting someone like that, and so that's what was so confusing to me. That's still so wild, though, to not even know what you're actually eating.

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Don't worry, it's easy to do. I thought similarly at the time and teased her for it, and only really thought more about it a few years later when I was working in a school and it became clear just how many 11 year olds had never done stuff like go to the seaside before. I'm in the UK. The furthest you can get from the sea is only 50 miles.

[–] Zezzy@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Looks like going back to old English, strawberries were still berries. The botanical meaning was only added in the 1700s.

So blackberries, raspberries, tomatoes, pineapples, strawberries, and eggplants are all berries

[–] flan@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Pineapples are apples and tomatoes are toes but otherwise I'll agree to that.

[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, much like peanuts not being nuts and Stonehenge not being a henge, it’s all the fault of a small number of assholes a couple of hundred years ago who desperately wanted to redefine things so that they could tell other people that they were wrong.

[–] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is an excellent post.

[–] Posadas@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You know what else is excellent?

Eggplant

You know what eggplant are?

That's right, berries.

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

they're also more closely related to chili peppers than eggs the-more-you-know

[–] redtea@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yesterday, I learn we're all fish. Today this. When will the horror end??

[–] Posadas@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

About 8% of the human genome is comprised of human endogenous retroviruses.

[–] the_itsb@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I kinda love that we've all got (slightly) more bacteria cells than human cells in our bodies:

Thoroughly revised estimates show that the typical adult human body consists of about 30 trillion human cells and about 38 trillion bacteria.

It makes me feel like a mech for bacteria!

Tbf the bacteria cells are much smaller, by volume and by mass you’re definitely mostly you cells

[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

deez nuts are technically drupes

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

gravity comes for us all eventually

[–] Self_Hating_Moid@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am going to stick them all up my ass

07

Death to America

[–] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Another fun fact - the little individual bips that make up the compound berries are called druplets

[–] CrimsonSage@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Pineapples are compound fruits too aren't they?

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

made a dupe by drupes

[–] windowlicker@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

aren't berries defined as not having a pit? avocados definitely have one. i'm confused

[–] KoboldKomrade@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

They're berries. It's in the name! Checkmate botanists.

[–] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

I was all aboard with the whole trans thing but now I have to learn fruit genders too? Looks like I'll have to be a Nazi.