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Strawberries are nuts 🍓

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  • meyotch@slrpnk.net
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    Strawberry seeds are designed by a malevolent god to stick perfectly in human front teeth.

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      Raspberry seeds make fun of strawberry seeds.

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        I have a chia seed from 1973 in the back of my mouth.

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          You celebrated 50 years together two years ago… Such a heartwarming story!

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            Keeps my mouth warm too

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      They are made to stay a long time in hosts so that they can spread farther

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    strawberries are accessory fruits, not nuts.

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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      But they’re covered in nuts

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        Kinda like your mom last night

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      …which is exactly what the third comment is saying

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        If you took all the seeds off a strawberry, it’d still be a strawberry. A bowl full of strawberry seeds is not a bowl of strawberries.

        e: They’re actually not even nuts. They’re achenes.

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    Achenes are not nuts.

    (1) Achene. A small hard indehiscent fruit. The term is strictly only applied to those formed from one carpel, but is sometimes used for those formed from two carpels (e.g. the fruit of the Compositae). The latter is better termed a cypsela.

    (2) Nut. This is similar to an achene, but is typically formed from two or three carpels (e.g. dock fruit).

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/achene

    i. Achene - A one-seeded, dry, indehiscent fruit; the one seed is attached to the fruit wall at a single point.

    ii. Nut - A dry, indehiscent, one seeded fruit similar to an achene but with the wall greatly thickened and hardened.

    https://courses.botany.wisc.edu/botany_400/Lab/LabWK03Fruitkey.html

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      Also, even if they were, it wouldn’t make the strawberry a nut. It would make it covered in nuts.

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      Thank you! 👏

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    Why is microsoft from Germany writing in English? Why don’t they just post it on their main Account which actually has a primarely English-speaking audience?

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      The original post (not shown in the screenshot) is from PBS, that’s why it says “Author” by their name. If it was in English (likely) it makes sense to answer in English as well.

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        Ok, the original post by PBS is just cropped out, that makes sense, thanks for the explanation

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    To me arguing over which fruit belongs in which category is a prime example of people arguing over shadows in Plato’s cave. Not that it’s a waste of time or anything but sometimes people act like tomatoes won’t grow if you call them vegetables. Like at the end of the day it’s just humans developing a system to make sense of nature rather than discovering an inherent, pre-existing system.

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      I totally agree. It is completely nonsense to say. In other languages it is different. I just know some Spanish, but they don’t have a word for berries or nuts, it is all just fruit. (Forrest fruit for berries or dried fruit for nuts) but they don’t call potatoes vegetables, but “tuberculo”. Interesting difference, which i guess is because they have another climate and other plants.

      We do just call it a vegetable in my language.

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      Technically, the pre-existing system could be evolutionary biology. I’m just saying that in some cases, a little bit of pedantry is enjoyable. It’s an acquired taste, maybe

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    I’ve heard every combination of “[food] is actually [plant part]” so any time anyone says this type of sentence, I just roll my eyes.

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      Cabbages are actually tree trunks

      Raspberries are actually tubers

      Wheat is actually a berry

      And oranges are actually an eldritch, ante-dimensional horror perpetrated by intelligent, unseen beings

      Also acorns are the progenitors of oranges.

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        Potatoes

        are actually an eldritch, ante-dimensional horror perpetrated by intelligent, unseen beings

        too.

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      Yeah it’s just meaningless factoids to me now.

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    I want to fill a spoon with strawberry seeds and see how it tastes

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      You gotta shell them first.

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    So what this nerd is saying is that we can milk a strawberry??

    Before the tech gets there, let’s commission some “art” on that subject?

    (For real, the seeds being nuts is a stretch)

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      Strawberries do not have nipples. :(

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        Ofc not, don’t be silly.

        Nuts have nipples (where do you think almond milk comes from? Kids today have prob never seen an almond on a farm & think almond milk grows in the stores!).

        And if the seeds on the strawberries really are “nuts”, then we should be able to milk them.
        I see no flaw in my logic.

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          The real problem these days is with intensive almond farming. Almond tastes better from free range almonds, with space to graze in peace and calm between the bushes.

          Have you heard of “bitter almonds”? Turns up in mystery novels. It’s what you get from caged almonds raised on steroids.

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            I love it when activists save caged almonds & how their little faces light up when, for the first time in their nutty lives, they arent sucked on by a relentless machine.

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          This thread gets dangerously close to r34 territory, and I do not know if I like that.

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            Well, unfortunately I’m no artist & I’m against AI (the system, not the tech as such), so no pics.

            But yeah, definitely, can you imagine the number of nips on a single strawberry? And the satisfaction of each nut? The dripping milk?

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              Also not an artist but got chu fam.

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              …no, definitely not.

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        Strawberry cows

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          Grazing in strawberry fields forever

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        If strawberries do not have nipples, then where does strawberry milk come from?

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    Like cashews!

    I thought nuts had to come from trees, though.

    Like, peanuts aren’t actually nuts.

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      There’s a legumes joke in there, but I dunno.

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        Peanuts claim to be nuts, but they aren’t a legumtimate part of the taxonomy.

        I dunno.

        • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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          Ah, my favorite flavor enhancing chemical:

          Monosodium Legumtimate.

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          Honest attempt. 7.5/10.

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      Sorry if I’m misunderstanding your post, but cashews are drupes, not nuts. I don’t know whether all true nuts come from trees, but all the ones I can think of do.

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        If strawberries are nuts, cashews are nuts. It’s a seed that grows on the outside of an accessory fruit.

        Obviously strawberries aren’t nuts either but we’re playing pretty fast and loose with words and meanings.

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          The “nut” from a cashew is the seed a stone fruit (like the center of a peach pit). The strawberry “seed” is the entire fruit.

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            I don’t see why the apple from a cashew can’t also be classified as an aggregate accessory fruit, like the red flesh of the strawberry, which would make the cashew pit an achene like the seeds of a strawberry.

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      What is a tree?

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        Although “tree” is a common word, there is no universally recognised precise definition of what a tree is, either botanically or in common language.[1][2] In its broadest sense, a tree is any plant with the general form of an elongated stem, or trunk, which supports the photosynthetic leaves or branches at some distance above the ground.

        Well damn, I guess strawberries can be trees and nuts.

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      You need to put an exclamation mark (!) before you insert the image, like this:

      ![](https://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20111228.gif)

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        Thanks. I don’t comment much anymore.

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    While peanuts are not nuts, but legumes.

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      I hereby christen thee, pealegumes.

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    Is this why strawberries are common allergens? Like so much more common than other fruits?

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      No, this post is not even accurate.

      The substance in strawberries which causes allergic reactions is the fra a 1 protein which gives strawberries their red color. White strawberries have less of this protein and may be tolerated by people with this allergy, depending on individual sensitivity.

      https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0963996917304209

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    This is nuts!

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    Like cashews?

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    Strawberry nut flour - it’s gluten free!

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