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Vegetables aren’t real. They made up the classification just to sell things that aren’t fruits.
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I know this is probably a repost but the self-censorship is super annoying and has entered the lexicon in ways that can permanently damage human communication as a whole.
Yeah sure censor stuff from kid shows but we're at the point where "unalive" and "pdf file" are being used as code words. Everyone knows what they mean, even the censors.
It's annoying that its driven by ad revenues, and made more dumb by the fact that if everyone can decode it, then they're still advertising over sex and violence. So the whole endeavor is pointless.
But I don't think it will cause any harm. Humans have been using slang, code, and memetic language to obscure meaning from others and identify their in-crowds since the dawn of human language. Some of it is dumber than others, but it won't cause any harm.
There is absolutely no chance that this idiotic self censorship can permanently damage human communication.
100% agree, we live in a 1984 age.
Also, using stupid words such as unalive doesn't make any sense because the algorithm of social media companies knows exactly what it means.
Its coming from Tiktok. Bytedance has heavy word censorship and if one of your comments or videos was flagged as inappropriate and had one of those words your account would be automatically suspended for review.
So a lot of normal westerm words got flagged. Kill. Dead. Any word related to sex. Hole. (Lol) basically every curse word.
Then there are gray words like Pedophile where people think it changes the algorithm to show your videos less if they contain them, but no one has any proof from what I can tell.
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Yeah I knew mushrooms were shady shit since when they snuck in with the badgers. Nobody batted an eye back then and look at where we are now.
I always categorized them as a snake
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It's the difference between the culinary use of the word and the biological use of the word. I thought we already figured that out?
Still a fun observation in relation to mushrooms.
In terms of botany, a vegetable isn't a thing (it's a culinary term).
Whereas a fruit has a specific botanical term (and a culinary term).
Not everything is "one or the other", some things are neither (Rhubarb), and some are both (tomato).
Fruit has a botanical and a culinary definition.
Vegetable only has a culinary definition.
Trying to decide on what food fits which category purely on the botanical definition of fruit is silly. In many other languages, the botanical and culinary definition even use completely different words. It's like saying lobster is red meat using a scientific definition of red.
But if we are having fun with this, rhubarb: definitely no fruit, but far too sweet, too often consumed raw or minimally processed, and far too at home in a yoghurt to fit nicely into the group vegetable.
Rhubarb’s just sour celery
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The thing is too that mushrooms don't even cook like vegetables or even like a protein or anything. So not only are they not botanically vegetables, they aren't even culinarily vegetables either.
Also if you don't like mushrooms because of the texture, you're probably cooking your mushrooms wrong.
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fucking fucking
I have a simple flowchart to determine what is or isn't a veggie:
> Can I eat it? -> Yes -> Does it come from an animal? -> No = Vegetable
Gushers are vegetables, got it.
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VEGETABLES DO NOT EXIST
Fucking
Fucking
Mushrooms are detachable fungal penises that jizz into the wind.
That’s cool. I like that I’m sucking off cooked rudimentary peni.
As you should.
What an inspiration to us all
My wife and I like to joke that vegetables aren't real and all of them are just something else in reality.
You're correct! "Vegetable" is a culinary term. "Fruit" is both botanical and culinary. The "tomato isn't a fruit" nonsense comes from people trying to conflate the two; if we called botanical fruits "grunkles" we wouldn't have this problem.
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I'm sorry, who exactly is out here calling mushrooms vegetables??
If it goes in soup, it's a vegetable. If it goes in Sangria, it's a fruit.
Next question please.
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I absolutely call them vegetables. It's a kitchen term and it absolutely makes sense to categorise them alongside tomatoes, beans, carrots, squash and cabbage. People get too hung up on things only belonging to exactly one category.
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