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[–] halykthered@lemmy.ml 166 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (23 children)

I appreciate the skittles reference

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[–] lugal@sopuli.xyz 80 points 1 week ago (6 children)

That's because the scientific definition of berries has little in common with the colloquial one. That doesn't make either wrong, they are just used in different contexts

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 18 points 1 week ago

Botanical vs culinary.

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[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

A berry is a watery, often sweet fruit under 4cm

[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That is the colloquial definition. The scientific definition of a berry differs a bit.

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[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] TheAmishMan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Pumpkin pie also rarely is made with pumpkin, it's usually squash

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Pumpkin pie is gross. Apple is the superior turkey-day pie.

[–] toast@retrolemmy.com 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Pumpkin pie is always made with squash. Occasionally, those squash are pumpkins

[–] sconniecrow@midwest.social 19 points 1 week ago

Pumpkin is a squash

[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Having made pumpkin pies for decades, this is true. Pumpkin is a squash.

[–] LodeMike 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] FierySpectre@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Botanically speaking they are correct.

[–] LodeMike 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

With great effort, I imagine. A pumpkin is also a squash.

Pumpkins are cool

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] LodeMike 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago (5 children)
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