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[โ€“] spongebue@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Kinda related, I studied in Spain for a semester. Was taking with my fellow American roommate about the debate of if a tomato is a fruit or vegetable. Our host mom's daughter's boyfriend (Cuban, fwiw) overheard, and we told him about the "controversy" in the US but all 3 of us agreed it was a fruit. Host mom overheard us and asked what we were talking about, and the Cuban told her. "Well yeah, of course it's a vegetable"

I couldn't understand every word but when I could tell they were arguing about some vegetables having seeds or something like that I knew I spread something.

[โ€“] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

All fruits are vegetables, not all vegetables are fruits. All edible plant matter is vegetable. Fruits are, well, the fruit of a plant.

[โ€“] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Fruits are the reproductive organs of plants designed to be eaten by other animals in order to spread their seeds.

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[โ€“] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago
[โ€“] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Someone on Bluesky last night mentioned Woody Allen for some offhand reason, and some sock puppet account was loudly defending Woody and saying he never did anything wrong and that Soon-Yin was never parented by him or anything like that. Imagine being a shill for Woody Allen of all people.

[โ€“] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So someone chimed in on a subject that was never broached in the first place? It reminds me of the people on reddit who will always pipe in about how mean John Lennon was no matter what the subject about him is.

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