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Anon learns about nuts (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's one of those "you don't know what you don't know" things. I apparently make a lot of assumptions about the things I eat. Some examples of things I was surprised about:

coffee beans aren't beans, they're closer to cherries
how pineapples grow
avocados are apparently berries
what adult asparagus look like

And so on. I'm sure there are a ton more, and I'm always excited to find something that really surprises me.

[–] Syd@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Botanical classifications are always crazy. Most nuts are wild too, check out walnuts. How many things we eat that are clones of a specific plant is really curious too. Apples, avocados, citrus, bananas...

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah, we have a walnut tree by my house and I scratched my head the first time trying to figure out how to make them look like what we get at the store.

Food in general is often quite different than you expect, especially now that very few people are farmers and most just buy stuff at the grocery store.