• Omega@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    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.

        • btsax@reddthat.com
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          4 days ago

          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