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Re: Bananas Are Berries, Strawberries Aren't

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Post by tracker1 » Mon, Jan 20, 2020, 6:02 PM UTC

globuous wrote: post #80

lhotiuerpoiu wrote: post #75

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I eat tomatoes like apples (with salt, I'm not a monster). No kink-shaming please.

Yes !! Tomate à la croque au sel as we call'em !! First time I ate a tomato like that in the US, my american friends made so much fun of me "yo, no way brooo ! he's eating a tomato like an apple, da'fu !! Weird frenchman !!". I still eat my tomatoes like that every so often, it's so good ! Although I think I end up eating quite a bit of salt when I do that which isn't so good...

Salt is fine... in general you're more likely to get too little salt than too much, and the difference in your blood pressure between the two isn't that significant.

Re: Bananas Are Berries, Strawberries Aren't

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Post by davidw » Mon, Jan 20, 2020, 6:06 PM UTC

ojosilva wrote: post #82

steverb wrote: post #81

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Try a little salt and black pepper on your cantaloupe. It's amazing.

Cantaloupe with jamón (cured pork ham) for lunch and tostada con aceite y tomate (tomato rubbed on a toast with olive oil) for breakfast are both everyday treats in menus in Spain.

Funny story: my first night in Italy (a country where I would go on to spend years, get married and have kids) they served "prosciutto con melone" - cured ham with cantaloupe at the place I was staying.

To this day I love prosciutto, and I like melons, but I can't stand the taste of them together.

That first evening there, I was really worried that all I had heard about how good Italian food was maybe not true - perhaps it was all strange things like what they'd just given me?

Re: Bananas Are Berries, Strawberries Aren't

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Post by davidw » Mon, Jan 20, 2020, 6:08 PM UTC

steverb wrote: post #81

sk0g wrote: post #78

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You eat apples with salt?! Then again, this is an actual thing in India, albeit with _black_ salt, which is more tangy than bitter and salty.

Try a little salt and black pepper on your cantaloupe. It's amazing.

My friend from Guadalajara swears by Tajin seasoning on a lot of stuff, including cantaloupes and watermelon and I think kind of everything...

Re: Bananas Are Berries, Strawberries Aren't

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Post by davchana » Mon, Jan 20, 2020, 6:09 PM UTC

sk0g wrote: post #78

lhotiuerpoiu wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I eat tomatoes like apples (with salt, I'm not a monster). No kink-shaming please.

You eat apples with salt?! Then again, this is an actual thing in India, albeit with _black_ salt, which is more tangy than bitter and salty.

I carry an apple to work every day with black pepper & salt pouches from Taco Bell, & my american co-workers have asked me why I sprinkle salt on fruit? I explain them we sprinkle salt on apples, banana, guava, pineapple, watermelon, cucumber, tomatoes, onion, oranges and many other things.

Black salt is not tangy like lemony, it is just rock salt. Sometimes fruitsalts are salts peppered with ground black pepper and or lemon juice. Black salt on its own is earthly salty like ocean water.

Re: Bananas Are Berries, Strawberries Aren't

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Post by cmurphycode » Mon, Jan 20, 2020, 6:11 PM UTC

theBobBob wrote: post #23

I remember hearing some super cliched but kinda funny saying one time: "Knowledge is knowing that tomatoes are a fruit. Wisdom is knowing that you shouldn't put it in a fruit salad."

And being a chef is knowing how to make it work anyway :)

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet » Mon, Jan 20, 2020, 6:12 PM UTC

jrhurst wrote: post #104

throwaway_tech wrote: post #94

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>yes, those delicious red fruits with "berries" literally in the name — aren't officially berries either. Similar to peanuts not being nuts, but in fact legumes.

Strange. I've often see people with peanut allergies have alligeries to nuts like Almonds but not to Legumes like Chickpeas or Lentils.

Our minds like to categorize things, but nature doesn't really give a shit about stuffing things into convenient cubby holes.

Re: Bananas Are Berries, Strawberries Aren't

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Post by dv_dt » Mon, Jan 20, 2020, 6:22 PM UTC

asiachick wrote: post #92

ath0 wrote: post #62

Because this is Hacker News, the discussion would be incomplete without a link to the Supreme Court case Nix v. Hedden[1]. After the Tariff Act of 1883 taxed vegetables (but not fruits), produce seller John Nix — no relation to the package manager — sued to get tomatoes classified as a fruit. The court held that the “common meaning” mattered more than the botanical one: “Botanically speaking, tomatoes are the fruit o…

and in South East Asia avocados are eaten as a fruit more than a savory thing like in Mexico. Avocado smoothies are delicious! Also there are tomatoes that are much sweeter than your average USA tomato. In Japan they are called Fruit Tomatoes.

The average US tomato was bred for mass shipping and tastes like wet cardboard. Try an heirloom tomato, or something else less mass produce at a farmers market - they taste completely different.

Re: Bananas Are Berries, Strawberries Aren't

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Post by nmeofthestate » Mon, Jan 20, 2020, 6:22 PM UTC

Looks like no-one has posted this yet:

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Re: Bananas Are Berries, Strawberries Aren't

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Post by robbrown451 » Mon, Jan 20, 2020, 6:23 PM UTC

Yeah and cucumbers are fruit, birds are dinosaurs, ladybugs are not bugs, peanuts are not nuts, etc.

Sometimes I think that scientists should just stick to taxonomic categories or other words that don't conflict with their "common usage" meanings.

(and while we all seem to agree that whales aren't fish, they are certainly within the "bony fish" clade https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteichthyes and are a lot closer relatives to a goldfish than are sharks :) )

Re: Bananas Are Berries, Strawberries Aren't

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Post by kljrewpoioepi » Mon, Jan 20, 2020, 6:27 PM UTC

zamadatix wrote: post #87

globuous wrote: post #80

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Yes !! Tomate à la croque au sel as we call'em !! First time I ate a tomato like that in the US, my american friends made so much fun of me "yo, no way brooo ! he's eating a tomato like an apple, da'fu !! Weird frenchman !!". I still eat my tomatoes like that every so often, it's so good ! Although I think I end up eating quite a bit of salt when I do that which isn't so good...

Dumb question but do you take a bite then add salt on the exposed portion as you eat? Or does salt just stick to tomatoes better than I think?

You add salt as you eat on the exposed portion. You can try putting salt on the initial bite spot, most of it will fall away, a bit will remain though.