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Strawberries are nuts 🍓 (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago (33 children)

To me arguing over which fruit belongs in which category is a prime example of people arguing over shadows in Plato's cave. Not that it's a waste of time or anything but sometimes people act like tomatoes won't grow if you call them vegetables. Like at the end of the day it's just humans developing a system to make sense of nature rather than discovering an inherent, pre-existing system.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I totally agree. It is completely nonsense to say. In other languages it is different. I just know some Spanish, but they don't have a word for berries or nuts, it is all just fruit. (Forrest fruit for berries or dried fruit for nuts) but they don't call potatoes vegetables, but "tuberculo". Interesting difference, which i guess is because they have another climate and other plants.

We do just call it a vegetable in my language.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Bayas y nueces... Tubérculo is closer to the botanical definition because it is a tuber (storage organ) and not a fruit (like most vegetables). And I would think that tubérculo could be any tuber vegetable, not just papas/patatas. Things like ñame or otoe are called tubérculo también.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for the clarification. I was under the impression that nuez would only refer to walnut. And that an almond would not be a nuez.

Is it a country specific thing because I usually see frutos del bosque in Spain?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I guess things can have multiple names, too. In German you would also say Waldfrüchte (forest fruits) to mixed berries, but they are still Beeren (berries) as well. If you search for "postre de bayas" or "pastel de bayas" many recipes pop up. And sure, Spanish is obviously a diverse language with the divide between Spanish from Spain and from Latin America.

Disclaimer: I'm part of the scientific bubble so that's why I may here more terms that are botanical in Spanish ;)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What about nuez?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Yeah, seems like you're right about kurz. It's mostly just walnuts although you can find recipes where they say nueces and use pecans. Almendras seem to be classified as a separate thing from nuts, interesting. Wasn't aware of that before! I'd just use the term "nuez" like I would in German maybe that's why I never noticed :D

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