Source: https://mastodon.social/@MrLovenstein/113844297604610435
Secret panel: https://tapas.io/episode/220482
Alt text from replies: 4 panel comic.
First panel: A strawberry, a raspberry, and a blueberry are sitting on the floor. A tomato comes along and asks: “Can I join berry club?” – “Sorry, Tomato. Berries only”, says Strawberry.
Second panel: Tomato holds up a sheet of paper. “Well this article says I am a berry and you’re not.” Angrily, Strawberry says “No way! ‘Berry’ is right in my name!”
Third panel: Close-up on Strawberry and Raspberry. “What?! I’m an ‘accessory’ fruit? What the hell is that?!”, says Strawberry in disbelief, looking at the paper. “I’m not a Berry either?!!” exclaims Raspberry, sweating.
Fourth panel. “These are strange times for berry club. Strange times.” says Blueberry. Tomato, a watermelon, and a banana are sitting next to it. Strawberry is sitting way in the background, looking sad.
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But they’re classified by the FDA as tree nuts.
The pitfalls of mixing culinary categories and scientific (botanical) categories. We have to ask ourselves the hard questions: If you were an anthropomorphic fruit, would you refer to yourself with culinary or scientific categories?
I’d refer to myself with scientific categories. I’d refer to me so hard.
What is this gif from?
Silence of the Lambs.
Specifically the scene in which the serial killer known as Buffalo Bill (pictured) says “would you do me? I’d do me so hard” 😁
You are a fish! Fuck paraphyletic groups!
There’s no such thing as a fish.
I think whether I was a fruit or not, I wouldn’t want to operate with the assumption that I’m going to be eaten, so scientific categories all the way. As a human, I like to think of myself as a mammal/ape/homo sapien/whatever instead of wondering which parts of me are white meat vs dark meat.
I’ve wondered quite a bit about my dark meat vs light meat. I’ve also wondered how well marbled I am. I think I’d be delicious.
As they say, “you eat with your eyes” so most certainly not.
I never thought of using tomatos as a way to explore the themes of gender and sexual identity, but there might be something there…
You mean, it might be fruitful…? 😅
🥁
Then one day I was transposed
From a simple young man
To a godly tomato that held all existence
And told me that we should expand…I wonder how many more fruits
Can connect to my head
I would take a papaya
Travel the world and the universe as two best friends
Knowledge is knowing tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Stregnth is being able to crush a tomato
Dexterity is being able to accurately throw a tomato.
Constitution is being able to eat a rotten tomato without getting sick
Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is knowing not to put one in a fruit salad.
Charisma is being able to sell a tomato based fruit salad.
Person: Wouldn’t a tomato based fruit salad be salsa
Person2: Hey I found the bard!
I would say intelligence is the ability to absorb the information that tomato is fruit.
Well these are D&D based stats… generally speaking, doesn’t quite fit the rules of reality. IE int would give a bonus to knowledge nature, in addition to increasing skill points allowing you to put points into it. (or in 5e inteligence (nature)), either way in pretty much all iterations the skills tend to be leveled by going out and adventuring. (A DM might grant a circumstance bonus if your character had specifically done some kind of teaching related to the subject, but the rules as written effectively having high int gives a bonus on the chance of knowing something, even if the character hasn’t seen a plant or a classroom in years.
Oh, man! Yesterday my daughter asked to confirm that avocados are, in fact, berries. And they are!
Ah, the stoic blueberry.
*little did they know that the deep rage of injustice had sparked a flame within him so bright that the revolution that flowed through his noble veins would burn the retinas of all who met his wrathful gaze*
Chillis are berries too.
Mind blown.
That would make an interesting Cap’n Crunch Oops All Berries!
I think to be classed a berry you should have a minimum sugar content
This is transphobic
How?
Strawberry and raspberry identify as berries
what
Okay but you must realise you are looking too deep into this. If your first xomment was a joke then okay. But if you seriously meant it you need to rethink your focuses. It’s clearly a joje about how we classify different fruits.
You think I seriously think that strawberries and raspberries identify as berries?
edit removed snark
I never thought you think that. I just thought you might be looking too deep into it and equating it to something it is not. Just a slight misunderstanding it seems.
Coffee is a berry
It’s less of a berry and more a seed
This is nuts!
Berry much so
You forgot tomato’s line from panel two in the alt text.
Edit: OP fixed it.
Is there a comprehensive list that shows most common berries, fruits etc. categorized? Especially the “I wouldn’t have guessed that” ones, like the ones in the comic. I could use that for a Pubquiz
I’m sure Wikipedia has your back.
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