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tgb
on Jan 20, 2020
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Bananas Are Berries, Strawberries Aren't
Similarly, the botanical definition of "nut" excludes basically everything we think of nuts. Pedants seemed to have learned that peanuts are "not nuts" but have yet to pick up on that almonds, pistachios, walnuts and pecans are also "not nuts."
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Because most people who like to throw around such pedantic facts only want to appear informed and by extension intelligent.
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I've developed a rule of thumb about matters culinary: "The answer to 'is X a Y?' is 'no'." Betteridge's Law of Culinary Classification, I suppose.
The answer seems to be to not care at all, and aggressively ignore anyone who suggests otherwise.
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