• @[email protected]
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    457 months ago

    Yeah I always assumed “bug” was like “vegetable” — it’s a colloquial, not taxonomic, term. But there are “true bugs” so maybe the analogy isn’t completely sound.

    (And tomato is absolutely a vegetable.)

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      177 months ago

      They’re culinary vegetables. My wife likes to say it like this: intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing that it doesn’t go in a fruit salad.

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        7 months ago

        I always love the “explaining dnd stats with a tomato” bit:

        Strength is being able to throw a tomato really far.

        Dexterity is being able to catch the tomato thrown really far.

        Constitution is being fine after eating a bad tomato.

        Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit.

        Wisdom is knowing a tomato doesn’t go in fruit salad.

        Charisma is being able to sell a tomato based fruit salad.

        Also, obligatory “salsa is tomato in a fruit salad”.

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          47 months ago

          And the obligatory response to the “tomato-based fruit salad” response: “found the bard!”

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              27 months ago

              I hadn’t but wasn’t thinking of them as fruit, also has a lot of onions which also isn’t a fruit.

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            27 months ago

            You know you can just put whatever you want in your salsa right, no cop is gonna stop you. I have a very nice mango salsa the other night, it was only one step removed from a fancy fruit salad.

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          17 months ago

          Alternatively you could stick with the theme established by the first two stats and say that constitution is throwing a tomato really far repeatedly.

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          57 months ago

          Everyone loves my tomato/eggplant/pumpkin fruit salad. I bring it to parties, and they all say it looks so good, they want to make sure everyone else gets a chance to eat it. Except everyone says that, and I end up having to take it home and throw it out.