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    916 days ago

    Italians need to realize that they don’t own the concept of putting toppings on a round piece of bread. And tomatoes aren’t even native to Italy so that throws a wrench into their ability to complain.

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        116 days ago

        I’ll give them that one because they taste like they should be vegetables but science says otherwise.

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          216 days ago

          Otoh the fruit/veggie dinstinction is from culinary tradition and has nothing to do with botanical sciences.

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            216 days ago

            I don’t particularly mind the culinary fruit/vegetable definition, but feel like sweet fruits/savory fruits/vegetables would have been clearer.

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            116 days ago

            That’s interesting.

            It’s like how peanuts are legumes and not nuts. But I feel like that makes sense because of the pods.

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              116 days ago

              Yeah and they grow in the ground too.

              A distinction that I find more entertaining than the fruit/veggie one is the berry category.

              • blueberry: not a berry
              • blackberry: nuh-uh
              • Strawberry: you’re an accessory fruit
              • banana: yup, totally a berry
              • watermelon: go for it

              That’s nuts

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                  215 days ago

                  These rules are made by botanists.

                  A berry is a fleshy fruit without a pit produced by a single flower containing a single ovary.

                  This definition is different from the colloquial culinary one which refers to anything small, growing on a small plant or bush and without a pit.