Also, even if they were, it wouldn't make the strawberry a nut. It would make it covered in nuts.

The term is strictly only applied to those formed from one carpel, but is sometimes used for those formed from two carpels

It is strictly only applied to ones with one carpel, but is used anyway to refer to ones with two carpels? That's not confusing at all

Thank you! 👏

Yeah it's just meaningless factoids to me now.

Cabbages are actually tree trunks

Raspberries are actually tubers

Wheat is actually a berry

And oranges are actually an eldritch, ante-dimensional horror perpetrated by intelligent, unseen beings

Also acorns are the progenitors of oranges.

Raspberry seeds make fun of strawberry seeds.

They are made to stay a long time in hosts so that they can spread farther

But they're covered in nuts

...which is exactly what the third comment is saying

Strawberries do not have nipples. :(

You gotta shell them first.

Like at the end of the day it’s just humans developing a system to make sense of nature

The core of the matter is that we have multiple, mutually incompatible schemes sharing in part the same terminology. Biology is not cooking, both fields care about vastly different things thus the categorisation scheme is different, that's the end of it. Culinarily, tomatoes have too much umami to be fruit. Botanically peppermint is an aromatic, I recommend you not put any into your soffritto.

EDIT:

Tomato is also dominated by oxalic acid, not malic, citric, (typical fruit acids) or acetic (fermented/overripe). Oxalic acid is in parsley, chives, spinach, beans, lettuce, that kind of stuff. "It's sour" isn't sufficient to describe a taste profile, our tongues may not tell them apart but our noses definitely do.

I think it should be possible to break the culinary categorisation down to chemistry. That doesn't tell you anything about the "why" but it's definitely not random and definitely not all in our heads.

The original post (not shown in the screenshot) is from PBS, that’s why it says “Author” by their name. If it was in English (likely) it makes sense to answer in English as well.

You need to put an exclamation mark (!) before you insert the image, like this:

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