Bananas Are Berries, Strawberries Aren't • Hacker News Board

Re: Bananas Are Berries, Strawberries Aren't

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Post by farisjarrah » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 6:14 PM UTC

lhotiuerpoiu wrote: post #75

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…

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

Slice up some green apple and put some balsamic vinegar on it. Super tasty.

Re: Bananas Are Berries, Strawberries Aren't

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Post by mcv » Tue, Jan 21, 2020, 10:44 PM UTC

ragazzina wrote: post #170

mcv wrote: post #25

That strawberries are not true berries becomes fairly obvious once you learn that tomatoes are berries. All berries seem to have fairly watery flesh surrounded by a thin but tough skin. Tomatoes have both, strawberries have neither. Raspberries superficially look like a collection of tiny berries from this perspective. Bananas have a skin, but it's not thin, and their flesh is not watery. That's just my layman's anal…

>All berries seem to have fairly watery flesh surrounded by a thin but tough skin. The point of the article was that bananas are berries though, and your definition doesn't really describe bananas (maybe kiwis).

I know. I'm just sharing my definition, which is completely subjective and holds no authorative value. It works for me, though.

Kiwis are a bit hairy to be berries, but they feel closer to berries to be than bananas.

Re: Bananas Are Berries, Strawberries Aren't

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Post by edgyquant » Sat, Jan 25, 2020, 3:24 PM UTC

fishnchips wrote: post #141

edgyquant wrote: post #105

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I put (kosher) salt on Apples and Watermelon and it is delicious.

What’s special about kosher salt?

It's not special (though it does have bigger granules,) my family is just Jewish.

Re: Bananas Are Berries, Strawberries Aren't

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Post by davchana » Thu, Jan 30, 2020, 3:21 AM UTC

gramakri wrote: post #152

davchana wrote: post #114

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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…

guava + black salt is an incredible combo. Sadly, it's very hard to get good guava here in bay area. If anyone knows a good place, I am all ears. I love the the green raw guava more than the white-ish ripe ones.

Apart from green raw, white ripe, we also had pinkish ripe guava in India. Eating Guava or chewing Guava leaves helped me in mouth sores when I was a kid.