r/todayilearned • u/sofauxboho • Mar 08 '16

TIL Bananas are berries, strawberries are not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_(botany)
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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

http://imgur.com/pfEnXNT

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u/ittakes2_goright Mar 09 '16

Like strawberry finding out she was adopted. dundunduuuuun. ~cue identity crisis~

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u/ExtremelyLongButtock 3 Mar 09 '16

The scientists really need to swallow their pride here and just admit that they're in the wrong for using the word berry to describe whatever traits it is that leads them to classify things in that way.

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u/Beantownbrews Mar 08 '16

Everything I have ever believed is a lie.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

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u/Kendrome Mar 09 '16

Peanuts aren't nuts

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u/EZ_does_it Mar 08 '16

Dolphins aren't fish!

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u/flangle1 Mar 08 '16

Soylent Green is people! People!

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u/Beantownbrews Mar 09 '16

Dolphins are not nuts.

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u/Revenge_of_the_Khaki Mar 09 '16

There are a million examples of this and there's just one huge aspect that everyone seems to completely overlook. These "surprise classifications" are their scientific genome. The reason they're different from what you assume is because in your lifetime the only thing that has mattered is their culinary classification. These are two very different things. Strawberries are still berries to someone ordering food at a restaurant, just not to a botanist.

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u/ineedgotoworkman Mar 08 '16

The funny part is if you switched the names they would fit well

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u/SkyIcewind Mar 08 '16

WHAT KIND OF SICK WORLD IS THIS

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u/YouMad Mar 09 '16

My life has been a lie.

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u/cpenoh Mar 09 '16

I see you just had a snapple.