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Strawberry seeds are designed by a malevolent god to stick perfectly in human front teeth.
Raspberry seeds make fun of strawberry seeds.
I have a chia seed from 1973 in the back of my mouth.
You celebrated 50 years together two years ago... Such a heartwarming story!
Keeps my mouth warm too
They are made to stay a long time in hosts so that they can spread farther
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?
The original post (not shown in the screenshot) is from PBS, thatβs why it says βAuthorβ by their name. If it was in English (likely) it makes sense to answer in English as well.
Ok, the original post by PBS is just cropped out, that makes sense, thanks for the explanation
strawberries are accessory fruits, not nuts.
...which is exactly what the third comment is saying
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.
But they're covered in nuts
Kinda like your mom last night
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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.
Like at the end of the day itβs just humans developing a system to make sense of nature
The core of the matter is that we have multiple, mutually incompatible schemes sharing in part the same terminology. Biology is not cooking, both fields care about vastly different things thus the categorisation scheme is different, that's the end of it. Culinarily, tomatoes have too much umami to be fruit. Botanically peppermint is an aromatic, I recommend you not put any into your soffritto.
"Botanically" "culinary" "terminology" "biology" and then you say umami seriously. Which is entirely made up.
Oh, this is actually a perfect example of the arbitreity of mapping systems!
A looong time ago on reddit, I got into an argument with someone who was doing that thing where you confuse the map for the object itself. We were mostly talking about the chemistry table. But anyway, he just could not see how a change in motivation, that is what the map designer finds useful, could change how the map is arranged.
I mean, I don't think this would convince him: he would just say the culinary version isn't real. But still, I really like it.
You never had tomato pie? It would likely change your idea of what too much savoriness is.
I haven't but that sounds like a pie not a cake. A meal, not a dessert.
Well, not all pies are desserts for sure, but a tomato pie is, unless you deviate from the usual recipes.
Besides, you didn't say that a dessert has to be a cake.
There's also tomato jams, compote, and you can do a tomato cake mind you, a tomato cake is really more like banana bread, where it's a flavoring more than the star of the show.
Point is that tomatoes can definitely serve in the same role as "fruit", just like some things that are sweeter can be used in savory dishes.
It's about the preparation, not the ingredient. I mean, look at bacon jam. Not a dessert, but it's a savory and sweet spread that's used in the same was as fruit based jams. Onion jam is in the same range (and, as a side note, there's also onion and tomato pie which is more of a savory dish than a dessert, despite being fairly sweet anyway).
From a culinary standpoint, there are few ingredients that are fully excluded from dessert territory by virtue of having strong savory taste. There's also not many excluded from entrees purely because they're sweet. It's all a wonderful spectrum of sweet and savory
I want my bananas to be the star of the bread show.
But to be fair, I am a horny slut for bananas.
I should look up some tomato stuff; I've never even heard of these things.
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I think it should be possible to break the culinary categorisation down to chemistry. That doesn't tell you anything about the "why" but it's definitely not random and definitely not all in our heads.
I agree with what you mean in kind of a broad-strokes way, but as individuals our subjective experiences of flavors can vary pretty wildly. There's genetics, neurology, age, and habit/experience that influence our taste in terms of actually sensing the chemicals. Then there's what we see, taste, and smell just prior or during tasting that severely impact our interpretation of that chemical sense.
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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Is this why strawberries are common allergens? Like so much more common than other fruits?
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
Microsoft feigning innocence by utilizing trivia to district us from their highly unethical business practices. Screw Microsoft. Use Linux π§.
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I want to fill a spoon with strawberry seeds and see how it tastes
You gotta shell them first.
This is nuts!
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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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)
Strawberries do not have nipples. :(
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.
This thread gets dangerously close to r34 territory, and I do not know if I like that.
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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Strawberry nut flour - it's gluten free!
Like cashews?
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.
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.
Potatoes
are actually an eldritch, ante-dimensional horror perpetrated by intelligent, unseen beings
too.
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