TIL banana is a berry! ๐คฏ
this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2023
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Why are there no comments on this! It's hilarious
Is banana a berry or is it there just for scale?
yup https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_(botany)
a berry is a fleshy fruit without a stone (pit) produced from a single flower containing one ovary. Berries so defined include grapes, currants, and tomatoes, as well as cucumbers, eggplants (aubergines) and bananas, but exclude certain fruits that meet the culinary definition of berries, such as strawberries and raspberries.
Botany should not have borrowed the word berry.
I am of the opinion that "a small, sweet, edible fruit" is closer to the right definition for the word, and that botanists' decision to appropriate the word for a redefined purpose was inappropriate and unnecessary.
okay but whats with the bulge in the paper on panel 3....
I think that's the top part of the paper bent backwards a bit casting a shadow