@[email protected] to Today I [email protected]English • edit-22 months agoTIL Bananas are berries that grow on giant herbsen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square61fedilinkarrow-up1406
arrow-up1406external-linkTIL Bananas are berries that grow on giant herbsen.wikipedia.org@[email protected] to Today I [email protected]English • edit-22 months agomessage-square61fedilink
Banana trees are made up of giant leaves, not a trunk. So they’re more like a giant onion instead of a tree.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish27•2 months agoVegetables don’t exist botanically and fruit has a very different meaning in a botanical context when compared to the culinary definition
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish15•2 months agoIntelligence is knowing tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•2 months agoSalsa is a tomato based fruit salad. (I don’t take credit for this, I read it somewhere)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 months agoYou can still consider roots, stems, and leaves as vegetables. Of course you have to be more stringent with fruits, and nuts/seeds imo are in a category of their own.
Vegetables don’t exist botanically and fruit has a very different meaning in a botanical context when compared to the culinary definition
Intelligence is knowing tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Salsa is a tomato based fruit salad. (I don’t take credit for this, I read it somewhere)
You can still consider roots, stems, and leaves as vegetables.
Of course you have to be more stringent with fruits, and nuts/seeds imo are in a category of their own.