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LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 23 days ago

Cucumbers taste like the white part of watermelons

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Cucumbers taste like the white part of watermelons

LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 23 days ago
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  • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works
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    Fun fact: cucumbers and watermelons are actually part of the same family: the cucurbitaceae.

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      Watermelons are vegetables…
      …tomatoes are fruit…

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        Vegetables don’t exist. It’s a culinary word which does not exist in botany. It describes an enormous umbrella of fruits, roots, leaves, stems, flowers, and seeds.

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          Exactly. Botanically cucumbers are berries, just like bananas which makes much more sense.

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          Fruit don’t exist. It is a botanical word describing seed bearing structures of flowering plants.

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            What ? I’ve study botany and the term fruit is used extensively.

            A fruit is the heterozygotic offspring of the parent plant. A seed is the male zygote, with the female zygote being pollen. So “seed” oils are made from fruit, just like olive oil.

            A tuber (potato) or rhyzome (ginger) is a homozygotic offspring. A vegetable is a part of the plant that is not the offspring, like the leaves, stem or root.

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              I’ve study botany and the term fruit is used extensively.

              …Yes?

              you should probably read my comment again

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        Your mom is a peach

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        No. Technically, both watermelons and cucumbers are berries.

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          and all berries are fruit.

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            I will do you one better. Why gamora?

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              gawhat now?

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                Its a reference from avengers movie.

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      Makes sense. The watermelon is like a playdoh ball then you just flatten it to a snake to get the cucumber

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        That was actually God’s process when he created them 6000 years ago.

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