I've heard every combination of "[food] is actually [plant part]" so any time anyone says this type of sentence, I just roll my eyes.
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Cabbages are actually tree trunks
Raspberries are actually tubers
Wheat is actually a berry
And oranges are actually an eldritch, ante-dimensional horror perpetrated by intelligent, unseen beings
Also acorns are the progenitors of oranges.
Potatoes
are actually an eldritch, ante-dimensional horror perpetrated by intelligent, unseen beings
too.
Achenes are not nuts.
(1) Achene. A small hard indehiscent fruit. The term is strictly only applied to those formed from one carpel, but is sometimes used for those formed from two carpels (e.g. the fruit of the Compositae). The latter is better termed a cypsela.
(2) Nut. This is similar to an achene, but is typically formed from two or three carpels (e.g. dock fruit).
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/achene
i. Achene - A one-seeded, dry, indehiscent fruit; the one seed is attached to the fruit wall at a single point.
ii. Nut - A dry, indehiscent, one seeded fruit similar to an achene but with the wall greatly thickened and hardened.
https://courses.botany.wisc.edu/botany_400/Lab/LabWK03Fruitkey.html
Also, even if they were, it wouldn't make the strawberry a nut. It would make it covered in nuts.
Thank you! ๐
Like cashews?
While peanuts are not nuts, but legumes.
I hereby christen thee, pealegumes.
So what this nerd is saying is that we can milk a strawberry??
Before the tech gets there, let's commission some "art" on that subject?
(For real, the seeds being nuts is a stretch)
Strawberries do not have nipples. :(
Ofc not, don't be silly.
Nuts have nipples (where do you think almond milk comes from? Kids today have prob never seen an almond on a farm & think almond milk grows in the stores!).
And if the seeds on the strawberries really are "nuts", then we should be able to milk them.
I see no flaw in my logic.
The real problem these days is with intensive almond farming. Almond tastes better from free range almonds, with space to graze in peace and calm between the bushes.
Have you heard of "bitter almonds"? Turns up in mystery novels. It's what you get from caged almonds raised on steroids.
I love it when activists save caged almonds & how their little faces light up when, for the first time in their nutty lives, they arent sucked on by a relentless machine.
This thread gets dangerously close to r34 territory, and I do not know if I like that.
Well, unfortunately I'm no artist & I'm against AI (the system, not the tech as such), so no pics.
But yeah, definitely, can you imagine the number of nips on a single strawberry? And the satisfaction of each nut? The dripping milk?
...no, definitely not.
Also not an artist but got chu fam.
Strawberry cows
Grazing in strawberry fields forever
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I wonder if people are allergic to strawberries are just allergic to the seeds then
Strawberry nut flour - it's gluten free!
Smelling roses has always reminded me of strawberries, although people think that's strange. Taste and smell are connected and this explains it.
strawberries are accessory fruits, not nuts.
But they're covered in nuts
Kinda like your mom last night
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I want to fill a spoon with strawberry seeds and see how it tastes
You gotta shell them first.
This is nuts!
Strawberry seeds are designed by a malevolent god to stick perfectly in human front teeth.
Raspberry seeds make fun of strawberry seeds.
I have a chia seed from 1973 in the back of my mouth.
You celebrated 50 years together two years ago... Such a heartwarming story!
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Like cashews!
I thought nuts had to come from trees, though.
Like, peanuts aren't actually nuts.
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