• kbal@fedia.io
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    18 days ago

    Strawberries are a type of berry. They go in a fruit salad, so they’re fruit. Deep in your heart, you know this. Do not believe everything you read on the Internet.

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      18 days ago

      It’s just about which taxonomy (i.e., context) one chooses to use.

      Botanically, tomatoes are fruits. But according to culinary taxonomy they’re vegetables (they don’t belong in a fruit salad).

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        18 days ago

        It’s often repeated, but I love the distinction between knowledge and wisdom based on this fact.

        Knowledge is to know tomato is a fruit; wisdom is to not put it in a fruit salad.

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          18 days ago

          I saw a variation on this once that added something else as “knowing how to make a tomato-using fruit salad taste good” or somesuch, but I forget what trait they assigned that to.

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        17 days ago

        Botanic science is correct (in this, at least FFS), whereas “culinary” taxonomy followed import law that was altered to dodge tariffs… They are not the same. 😅