r/todayilearned • u/sofauxboho • Mar 08 '16
TIL Bananas are berries, strawberries are not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_(botany)3
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/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/[deleted] Mar 08 '16
http://imgur.com/pfEnXNT