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Fun fact of the day: Avocados, pineapples, and tomatoes are berries, but strawberry, raspberries, and blackberries are compound fruit (not berries) (hexbear.net)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (11 children)

you know words are just what we call things alright. Berries have berry in their name, not-berries don't. Simple as.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Looks like going back to old English, strawberries were still berries. The botanical meaning was only added in the 1700s.

So blackberries, raspberries, tomatoes, pineapples, strawberries, and eggplants are all berries

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, much like peanuts not being nuts and Stonehenge not being a henge, it’s all the fault of a small number of assholes a couple of hundred years ago who desperately wanted to redefine things so that they could tell other people that they were wrong.

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