does that mean creamed corn technically a fruit smoothie?

Cornbread technically a fruitcake?

Corn fritters belong in the doughnut cabinet with apple fritters?

Does that mean whiskey is ketchup

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    6 months ago

    I'm pretty sure that botanically speaking all or most vegetables are fruits. Vegetable is a culinary term not a botanical term.

    • ElGosso [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      Too lazy to look it up now but "fruit" is the part of the plant that carries the seed, and we do eat a lot of those. Leafy food like spinach isn't fruit, but things like gourds are.

        • EllenKelly [comrade/them]
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          6 months ago

          strawberries are definitely fruit comrade, the fleshy part is the swollen ova of the flower, so if i'm remembering correctly the 'spots' on a strawberry the are actually individual fruits themselves

          wheat, and rice are also fruit, rice wine and beer are fruit drinks 🍻

          vegetable meaning loosely any edible part of a plant, fruits are also vegetables

          • novibe@lemmy.ml
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            6 months ago

            Yes that’s what I meant. What we consider a fruit in the strawberry is actually a pseudo fruit formed from the receptacle of the flower, not the ovaries. And the “seeds” are fruits with the seeds inside them.

            And yes ofc fruits are vegetables. Every edible part of a plant is a vegetable. But also, vegetable is a culinary category and is very loose and unscientific so yeah…

        • Helmic [he/him]
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          6 months ago

          Strawberries are fruit, but they are not berries.

          • novibe@lemmy.ml
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            6 months ago

            The fruits are the “seeds” on the surface. The “fruit” we think of is a pseudo fruit formed from the flower receptacle.

  • ElGosso [he/him]
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    6 months ago

    I had a friend who took a bunch of advanced bio courses in college and we got really drunk one night and he started talking about this and started a running joke where everything was botanically fruit. So, like, rocks, squirrels, pizza parties, all of them were "fruit."

      • ElGosso [he/him]
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        6 months ago

        He said "everything is fruit," so we started thinking of whatever we could and asking him if it was fruit, and he committed to the bit.

  • Wheaties [comrade/them]
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    6 months ago

    this mainly means that all food in every grocery in the US is technically in the fruit aisle.

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    6 months ago

    Gay Communism is out.

    Fruity Cornunism is in. Hit the bricks. Spread the word.

  • WashedAnus [he/him]
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    6 months ago

    Does that mean whiskey is ketchup

    Now I want to try a tomato liqueur

  • autism_2 [it/its]
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    6 months ago

    does that mean creamed corn technically a fruit smoothie?

    This has put me off corn for at least a month

    • autism_2 [it/its]
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      6 months ago

      Creamed corn is a disgusting name on its own really, who the fuck came up with that