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Originally posted by The_Equalizer View PostYou're confusing people. Getting your hands dirty is frowned upon by some on this board.Comment
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Originally posted by original PM View PostAnd they are not even berries - did your font of all knowledge tell you that too?
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What qualifies a fruit to be a berry?
We're all familiar with common edible berries that we buy from Waitrose, such as strawberries and raspberries, but why are these called berries and grapes, for example, are not?
A reasonable hypothesis is:
To qualify as a berry the fruit must be rotund in its morphology and its dimensions must lie within certain parameters.
This clears up our grape as it is not round and nobody can postulate that an apple is a berry as the magnitude of its dimensions exceeds certain bounds.
This does, however, leave the awkward question of the raspberry/strawberry axis.
In my mind they are incorrectly deemed to be berries. This is not unusual in the world of edible produce; indeed the strawberry isn't a true fruit as its seeds are not contained within the carpel. Furthermore , why is a tomato considered a vegetable when it us a fruit?Comment
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Originally posted by northernladyuk View PostThey'll get used to it soon enough.Comment
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Originally posted by Pip in a Poke View PostWhat qualifies a fruit to be a berry?
We're all familiar with common edible berries that we buy from Waitrose, such as strawberries and raspberries, but why are these called berries and grapes, for example, are not?
A reasonable hypothesis is:
To qualify as a berry the fruit must be rotund in its morphology and its dimensions must lie within certain parameters.
This clears up our grape as it is not round and nobody can postulate that an apple is a berry as the magnitude of its dimensions exceeds certain bounds.
This does, however, leave the awkward question of the raspberry/strawberry axis.
In my mind they are incorrectly deemed to be berries. This is not unusual in the world of edible produce; indeed the strawberry isn't a true fruit as its seeds are not contained within the carpel. Furthermore , why is a tomato considered a vegetable when it us a fruit?Comment
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Originally posted by The_Equalizer View PostYou're confusing people. Getting your hands dirty is frowned upon by some on this board.
You really are the epitome of mediocrity.Hard Brexit now!
#prayfornodealComment
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Originally posted by The_Equalizer View PostIt'll do them no harm.Comment
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostOooh 'ark at the horny-handed son of the soil.
You really are the epitome of mediocrity.Comment
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Originally posted by Pip in a Poke View PostWhat qualifies a fruit to be a berry?
We're all familiar with common edible berries that we buy from Waitrose, such as strawberries and raspberries, but why are these called berries and grapes, for example, are not?
A reasonable hypothesis is:
To qualify as a berry the fruit must be rotund in its morphology and its dimensions must lie within certain parameters.
This clears up our grape as it is not round and nobody can postulate that an apple is a berry as the magnitude of its dimensions exceeds certain bounds.
This does, however, leave the awkward question of the raspberry/strawberry axis.
In my mind they are incorrectly deemed to be berries. This is not unusual in the world of edible produce; indeed the strawberry isn't a true fruit as its seeds are not contained within the carpel. Furthermore , why is a tomato considered a vegetable when it us a fruit?
"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad."Comment
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostOooh 'ark at the horny-handed son of the soil.
You really are the epitome of mediocrity.Comment
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