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Sub-shrub
So I should put them on sandwiches? 🤔
Does this suggest the existence of dom-shrubs?
Nnnnnnn… yes?
True wood, indeed.
Absolutely. Basil with tomato, mozzarella, some spinach if you want to bulk it up and get more nutrients, and a balsamic glaze.
If the bread is still connected on your sub, is it technically a hotdog?
The other side of this coin is that the banana is the largest herb; the banana tree is the tallest plant that doesn’t produce wood
Of course mixing up culinary and botany meanings deliberately is dumb and leads to people saying things like “a tomato is a fruit” and “a strawberry isn’t a berry” those people can go produce their own wood if you know what I mean
A strawberry isn’t a berry. It’s just small and has it in the name. It doesn’t even look like a berry.
Also a banana isn’t an herb. Just the banana tree is. The banana is a berry.
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…bananas are not herbs, dude. You don’t dry a banana and mix it into other food. It’s a fruit. You pick it, and eat it.
You’ve never had dehydrated bananas?
I’ve put them in oatmeal before.
congrats on being the millionth person in this thread including the original artist to not know that words can have one meaning in a scientific context and another different meaning in a culinary context
here’s some more that will blow your mind, peanuts aren’t nuts, peanut butter isn’t butter, starfish aren’t fish, wow much learn
To be honest people eat basil and rosemary leaves not the wood part. So the same could be said about bay leaves, no one bites the tree itself
You’ve never had cinnamon!?
What is this cinnamon shtick you speak of?
aren’t herbs
What on Earth is that bird’s definition of an “herb”? A pretty uncontroversial definition from Wikipedia:
Herbs generally refers to the leafy green or flowering parts of a plant (either fresh or dried), while spices are usually dried and produced from other parts of the plant, including seeds, bark, roots and fruits.
And what the goddamn hell is “true wood” supposed to distinguish? Do plants grow the faux wood that I can buy at Lowe’s? Rosemary is a woody shrub and, like basil, is in the family Lamiaceae with a bunch of other herbs.
“Shrubs” and “herbs” are not mutually exclusive (and basil isn’t a shrub – a woody perennial – anyway). wtaf is the logic here; there’s pedantry, and then there’s fucking nonsense pulled out of thin air.
Edit: Wait, is the comic talking about herbaceous plants (shortened in botany as “herbs”)? Because in that case, 1) that’s not news in botanical terms for rosemary, 2) basil is an herbaceous annual, 3) why did it single out rosemary and basil if it didn’t mean to imply a culinary sense, and 4) still what the hell did it mean by “true wood”? It’s simultaneously less and more confusing.
And what the goddamn hell is “true wood” supposed to distinguish?
I suppose if it contains lignin, it’s really wood, otherwise it just kinda looks like wood at best. If it’s real wood, most animals, with a few exceptions here and there, cannot directly digest it.
I suppose if it contains lignin, it’s really wood
I appreciate you trying to fill in the gaps that the comic leaves with its abject, ignorant nonsense masquerading as pedantry, but wood is more complicated than just the presence of lignin.
Otherwise, oops, wheat is wood.
That reminds me, I must go check if the oregano is ready to harvest.
Edit: I’ll check again in two weeks
Outstanding meme abuse.
Bananas are berries
You rang?
You must go to the tallest tree in these woods and cut it down. WITH . . . a haddock!
Herring. 😁
Cut down a tree with a herring? It can’t be done!
Rosemary does grow like a shrub if you let it. A regular size one.
But is maple syrup a herb, or an herb?
True wood? Wood was reinvented multiple times.
isn’t it all just the same genes responsible for wood-making, getting switched on and off repeatedly?
There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)
Also, at least with germans coal deposits, they exists because bacteria/fungus first needed a few million years to learn to digest lignin.
On a related note, may I suggest “No such thing as fish” as a podcast? From QI-producers been going on since the episode with “no such thing as fish” thing
Wait, basil?
Rosemary, I get (and also thyme, btw), but basil? At best, the dried out stalks of a basil can look a bit woody, but that’s true for a lot of plants.
When Basil matures, especially after it flowers it gets pretty woody
Yup, gardeners are encouraged to cut off the tops of basil so that it doesn’t flower (and then it doesn’t turn woody).
Basil I forgot about and dried:
So… are they spices? Like cinnamon?
This is a play on the two meanings of herb. Of course they are still “herbs” in the culinary sense. But in a botanical sense you would classify plants into categories like herb(aceous plant), sub-shrub, shrub, tree, vine, liana, etc. This doesn’t affect culinary names though.
Yes, but consider that if there is bark, cinnamon is bark.
