Bananas Are Berries, Strawberries Aren't
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Bananas Are Berries, Strawberries Aren't
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#2Potato plant produces a berry too, but the actual fruit is toxic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_fruit
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#3any reason why rasberries and strawberries have the words berries in them then?
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#4Is anything actually gained from rigid definitions like this? People clearly use berry in a different way than botanists do.
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#5any reason why rasberries and strawberries have the words berries in them then?
For the same reason Stonehenge have henge in it's name
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#6any reason why rasberries and strawberries have the words berries in them then?
Both are red, small, sweet, and grow in bushes and shrubs. It’s fair to assume they’re related. Before science came along.
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#8And Tomatoes, by ruling of a Massachusetts court, “are a vegetable for tax purposes”
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#9I find the article pleasant in its writting and humour. For me this goes to show that thin clickbait articles can be interesting, it's just that most people who can write don't usually do clickbait. Excerpt:
> The technical definition of a berry is "a fleshy fruit produced from a single ovary." If you're not too familiar with botany, this definition probably isn't helpful at all. But once you learn that oranges and tomatoes fit that definition to a T and could therefore be considered berries, you may start to question reality.
> Go a step further and find out that strawberries — yes, those delicious red fruits with "berries" literally in the name — aren't officially berries either. They're "accessory fruits," meaning the flesh that surrounds the seed doesn't actually come from the plant's ovaries but from the ovaries' receptacle. Didn't think we'd be talking so much about ovaries in this article, did you? By the way, raspberries aren't really berries either. I'll let you take a minute to collect yourself.
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#10any reason why rasberries and strawberries have the words berries in them then?
The world "berry" and "fruit" have both a technical botanist definition, and a culinary definition.
Like okra is a fruit from a botany perspective but not a culinary one. If you asked for a fruit smoothie and received an okra smoothie on I imagine you wouldn't be happy.