Vegetables aren’t real. They made up the classification just to sell things that aren’t fruits.
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Big Celery just trying to legitimize crunchy water
Now this a QAnon theory I can align with. #finally
I get accidentally double posting, how did you triple post?
I know this is probably a repost but the self-censorship is super annoying and has entered the lexicon in ways that can permanently damage human communication as a whole.
Yeah sure censor stuff from kid shows but we're at the point where "unalive" and "pdf file" are being used as code words. Everyone knows what they mean, even the censors.
100% agree, we live in a 1984 age.
Also, using stupid words such as unalive doesn't make any sense because the algorithm of social media companies knows exactly what it means.
Its coming from Tiktok. Bytedance has heavy word censorship and if one of your comments or videos was flagged as inappropriate and had one of those words your account would be automatically suspended for review.
So a lot of normal westerm words got flagged. Kill. Dead. Any word related to sex. Hole. (Lol) basically every curse word.
Then there are gray words like Pedophile where people think it changes the algorithm to show your videos less if they contain them, but no one has any proof from what I can tell.
It's also extremely weird because people often just default to the "hidden meaning" completely ignoring context. There were so many instances where I was being shouted at for writing "CP" on the Cyberpunk subreddit, it was just weird...
Tomatoes are biologically fruit, but culinarily they are a vegetable.
You wouldn't expect them to put an orange slice on your burger because you asked for some veg, would you? But you'd expect tomatoes, tomatoes are veg outside of any scientific context. Language is fickle. Life is complicated. Reality defies categorization.
Mushrooms are detachable fungal penises that jizz into the wind.
I'm sorry, who exactly is out here calling mushrooms vegetables??
If it goes in soup, it's a vegetable. If it goes in Sangria, it's a fruit.
Next question please.
If it is from a plant and it goes into fruit salad, it's fruit
Is water a fruit or a vegetable
Chicken and beef go in soup.
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I absolutely call them vegetables. It's a kitchen term and it absolutely makes sense to categorise them alongside tomatoes, beans, carrots, squash and cabbage. People get too hung up on things only belonging to exactly one category.
When people say that they are wrong. There are two different definitions for the word "fruit". They're homonyms for completely different words. It's like if i ask you: Which is lighter, a black Mini Cooper, or a white Hummer? Depends on which definition of "lighter" you're asking about
fucking fucking
My wife and I like to joke that vegetables aren't real and all of them are just something else in reality.
There certainly are feelings associated with the fact that we can analyze the DNA of rots
Yeah I knew mushrooms were shady shit since when they snuck in with the badgers. Nobody batted an eye back then and look at where we are now.
I always categorized them as a snake
Big Mushroom is taking the slow play, and frankly, it's impressive
We just ignoring the mushrooms are also fruit(ing bodie)s?
You mean, we apply plant language to them so they are also like plants? They are closer related to us though...
I have a simple flowchart to determine what is or isn't a veggie:
> Can I eat it? -> Yes -> Does it come from an animal? -> No = Vegetable
Rice, my favorite vegetable.
That’s why they call you the bread man.
Gushers are vegetables, got it.
Fruit has a botanical and a culinary definition.
Vegetable only has a culinary definition.
Trying to decide on what food fits which category purely on the botanical definition of fruit is silly. In many other languages, the botanical and culinary definition even use completely different words. It's like saying lobster is red meat using a scientific definition of red.
But if we are having fun with this, rhubarb: definitely no fruit, but far too sweet, too often consumed raw or minimally processed, and far too at home in a yoghurt to fit nicely into the group vegetable.
Rhubarb’s just sour celery
I do love sour celery mush on my pancakes.
Well vegetable used to be used sometimes to mean "plant".
Most people don't really understand how words work.
It's fair enough to call things different to what that actually are. Vegetables in common language just means the stuff treated as vegetables in the kitchen. Calling all the things that are actually fruit fruit isn't really useful in the kitchen. I don't want tomato or pumpkin or cucumber in a fruit salad
Likewise with berries. Using the scientific names isn't useful in the kitchen, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries are all used similarly, despite only one of those is technically a berry
All fruits are vegetables.
I'm not a vegetable!
How about shrimps and lobsters sneaking into the animal club while they are insects? Cockroaches of the sea and shit. Nah mean?
Shrimps and lobsters shells are made of chitin. Mushrooms are also made of chitin. Coincidence?
In terms of botany, a vegetable isn't a thing (it's a culinary term).
Whereas a fruit has a specific botanical term (and a culinary term).
Not everything is "one or the other", some things are neither (Rhubarb), and some are both (tomato).
You can't say "both" when there are three choices
- Vegetable as a culinary term
- Fruit as a culinary term
- Fruit as a botanical term
Youre absolutely correct
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