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TIL the little things on strawberries are actually the fruit. What you eat is receptacle tissue.
(www.iflscience.com)
wait, you don't eat the little things?
this post was submitted on 24 Aug 2025
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The red part is the cum and the wee seeds are the sperms. Kewl.
How do I delete someone else's comment?
Cum is sperm.
cum the whole ejaculate, semen and sperm
These are strange times for the berry club. Strange times...
This one lives in my head rent free! 🤣
“each containing a single seed inside”
Aka, those are the seeds.
A peach contains a single seed but you don't call the whole thing a seed. The pips of a strawberry are called "achenes" which is a type of dry fruit. It doesn't matter at all for general use but it is botanically significant.
An apple contains many seeds, but you don't call each seed a fruit.
I mean, I knew a strawberry wasn't a berry, but your counterexample was completely irrelevant.
Edit:
When people downvote but nobody responds, I have no idea what people are downvoting about.
Nothing I said was inaccurate, and it illustrated why their example was inapplicable, so what do downvotes mean here?
You are being downvoted because you argue your personal interpretation against a factual scientific classification.
If the experts in the field have concluded that a tiny fruit that contains a tiny seed is still a fruit, then arguing against it is inaccurate.
Unless you too are an expert in the field and have some substantial arguments otherwise that are more relevant that a gotcha.
"Each containing a single seed inside" does not mean "those are the seeds" and I provided a counter-example to illustrate my point.
It means "I'm dumb. There's a lot of dumb people in this comm. And mods aren't doing their job"
Aren’t we all just receptacle tissue.
What little things on strawberries?
Someone has a lot of time on their hands.
And strawberry fruits
It sure does
Had*
😅 Now, they're left with only their choices of how it was spent.
At first glance, I thought this was one of those macrolens images with army men
Science has gone too far
Strawberries are a type of berry. They go in a fruit salad, so they're fruit. Deep in your heart, you know this. Do not believe everything you read on the Internet.
It’s just about which taxonomy (i.e., context) one chooses to use.
Botanically, tomatoes are fruits. But according to culinary taxonomy they’re vegetables (they don’t belong in a fruit salad).
It's often repeated, but I love the distinction between knowledge and wisdom based on this fact.
Knowledge is to know tomato is a fruit; wisdom is to not put it in a fruit salad.
I saw a variation on this once that added something else as "knowing how to make a tomato-using fruit salad taste good" or somesuch, but I forget what trait they assigned that to.
Charisma is selling a tomato based fruit salad and calling it salsa.
The video “Tomatoes, or How Not To Define Art” (by Ian Danskin, who also does The Alt-Right Playbook) presents this very well: https://youtu.be/XmxIK9p0SNM
Botanic science is correct (in this, at least ^FFS^), whereas "culinary" taxonomy followed import law that was altered to dodge tariffs... They are not the same. 😅
Botanic science is correct
Oh you sweet, sweet summer child.
To clarify: A lot of well established taxonomy was severly shaken when genetic sequencing was applied en masse, resulting in phylogenetic trees very different from what was thought to be nearly certain. In modern biology, you have different taxonomy systems for different purposes, each using somewhat different justifications (am not a biologist, but related). They are all "wrong" in a sense, hence the joke.
Look, dear ol' patronizing friendo. My experience is in culinary, not botanical science, and hence the snub at the tariff dodging history of tomatoes' profit-focused designation as a vegetable (ie. staple vs. luxury), but thanks for playing. Syntax is a bitch, eh?
Didn't mean to patronise, sorry if it came across that way. I appreciated your joke, and wanted to add another joke about the biological side of things on top
Fair enough. No hard feelings, I hope, and thanks. 🖖🏽
I think the seeds are technically classified as nuts.
It's a little arbitrary but the thickness of the pericarp (shell/husk) is the key difference between a nut and an achene. Strawberries have achenes.
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That's why my local Dairy Queen is starting to sell receptacle tissue milkshakes.
Made up my mind, make a new start; Goin to California with an achene in my heart