To be honest people eat basil and rosemary leaves not the wood part. So the same could be said about bay leaves, no one bites the tree itself
You’ve never had cinnamon!?
What is this cinnamon shtick you speak of?
Wait… You guys dont bite trees?
Didn’t know we had beavers here on Lemmy
That reminds me, I must go check if the oregano is ready to harvest.
Edit: I’ll check again in two weeks
True wood? Wood was reinvented multiple times.
isn’t it all just the same genes responsible for wood-making, getting switched on and off repeatedly?
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i love this comics so much
So… are they spices? Like cinnamon?
This is a play on the two meanings of herb. Of course they are still “herbs” in the culinary sense. But in a botanical sense you would classify plants into categories like herb(aceous plant), sub-shrub, shrub, tree, vine, liana, etc. This doesn’t affect culinary names though.
Yes, but consider that if there is bark, cinnamon is bark.
Bananas are berries
WHAT?
I fear a storm is coming
The other side of this coin is that the banana is the largest herb; the banana tree is the tallest plant that doesn’t produce wood
Of course mixing up culinary and botany meanings deliberately is dumb and leads to people saying things like “a tomato is a fruit” and “a strawberry isn’t a berry” those people can go produce their own wood if you know what I mean
A strawberry isn’t a berry. It’s just small and has it in the name. It doesn’t even look like a berry.
Also a banana isn’t an herb. Just the banana tree is. The banana is a berry.
How do strawberries not look like berries to you?
Berries are supposed to be bulbous and smooth. The only berry I can come up with that kinda has strawberry features is a raspberry because it’s more squishy. But even then, it has a lot of the little balls, like a blackberry. Strawberries just don’t look like a berry.
Bayberries/waxberries aren’t really smootth, and Yewberries aren’t very bulbous.
Haskap berries are lumpy and mealy, are they not berries?
Do groundcherries count with their paper husk? Tomatillos? Cherry Tomatos?
Are cherries berries? Rose hips?
Cherry chili peppers are bulbous and smooth, are they berries?
Raspberries and blackberries often have little hairs growing off of each fruit, does that mean they’re not smooth? If hair is ok, kiwifruit are bulbous, but hariy.
I feel like you’re naming berries that don’t look like most berries and non-berries that look like berries. I think you’re actually kinda agreeing with me and making my point.
In this case, strawberries are not berries that also don’t look like berries.
ugh
…bananas are not herbs, dude. You don’t dry a banana and mix it into other food. It’s a fruit. You pick it, and eat it.
congrats on being the millionth person in this thread including the original artist to not know that words can have one meaning in a scientific context and another different meaning in a culinary context
here’s some more that will blow your mind, peanuts aren’t nuts, peanut butter isn’t butter, starfish aren’t fish, wow much learn
We did it, Lemmy.
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I thought shrubs were defined from multiple stem growth
Outstanding meme abuse.
Sub-shrub
So I should put them on sandwiches? 🤔
Does this suggest the existence of dom-shrubs?
Nnnnnnn… yes?
True wood, indeed.
Absolutely. Basil with tomato, mozzarella, some spinach if you want to bulk it up and get more nutrients, and a balsamic glaze.
If the bread is still connected on your sub, is it technically a hotdog?
aren’t herbs
What on Earth is that bird’s definition of an “herb”? A pretty uncontroversial definition from Wikipedia:
Herbs generally refers to the leafy green or flowering parts of a plant (either fresh or dried), while spices are usually dried and produced from other parts of the plant, including seeds, bark, roots and fruits.
And what the goddamn hell is “true wood” supposed to distinguish? Do plants grow the faux wood that I can buy at Lowe’s? Rosemary is a woody shrub and, like basil, is in the family Lamiaceae with a bunch of other herbs.
“Shrubs” and “herbs” are not mutually exclusive (and basil isn’t a shrub – a woody perennial – anyway). wtaf is the logic here; there’s pedantry, and then there’s fucking nonsense pulled out of thin air.
Edit: Wait, is the comic talking about herbaceous plants (shortened in botany as “herbs”)? Because in that case, 1) that’s not news in botanical terms for rosemary, 2) basil is an herbaceous annual, 3) why did it single out rosemary and basil if it didn’t mean to imply a culinary sense, and 4) still what the hell did it mean by “true wood”? It’s simultaneously less and more confusing.
And what the goddamn hell is “true wood” supposed to distinguish?
I suppose if it contains lignin, it’s really wood, otherwise it just kinda looks like wood at best. If it’s real wood, most animals, with a few exceptions here and there, cannot directly digest it.
I suppose if it contains lignin, it’s really wood
I appreciate you trying to fill in the gaps that the comic leaves with its abject, ignorant nonsense masquerading as pedantry, but wood is more complicated than just the presence of lignin.
Otherwise, oops, wheat is wood.
Rosemary does grow like a shrub if you let it. A regular size one.
Strawberries are not berries (but aggregate accessory fruits). Cucumber, watermelon and pumpkin belong to the same family of plants. Tomatoes are fruit. Well botanically, vegetables do not exist anyway. Vegetables are a social construct. Also, wheat is a kind of grass. Isn’t our world beautiful?
That wheat is a grass is even easier to understand than corn also is one. And don’t forget bamboo, which can even grow into huge “trees” forming large bamboo forests!
How can vegetarians be real if our vegetables aren’t real?
Vegetarians aren’t real anyways because they still support mass murder of animals! (partly /s)
Just curious, how are they doing that?
Eating eggs -> financially supporting a system where male chicks get either immediately killed after birth or more rarely are later killed for their meat. Also it is supporting a system where chickens are bred to produce as many eggs as fast as possible, which means a life of torture to them
Drinking milk -> financially supporting a system where cows are continuously impregnated against their will and where their offspring is immediately taken from them and killed for their meat (I think this is done yearly). Also it is supporting a system where cows are bred to produce as much milk as fast as possible, which means a life of torture to them
There are certainly many more atrocities happening, but I’m trying not to think too often of that stuff
I would guess by eating diary, eggs, leather, etc. I heard this take just yesterday, and I can see a point, because most animal industries don’t treat animals well even when it’s not about killing the animal
leather is mainly a waste product, no one actually kills animals for their skins (except animals that are valuable to humans only for their skin but those are the exception and in many places is even an illegal practice), so idk if i would count the use of leather :shrug:
Now you’re asking the questions they don’t want you to ask
It is beautiful, but you made it sound like Mexican food. It’s all the same you can just do it differently and call it something else.
I get the idea planetologists got high of their own supply. What the fuck is up with all that?
The most sensical classification of species. Tracking shared traits and now shared DNA to group species by how recently they share an ancestor.
You rang?
You must go to the tallest tree in these woods and cut it down. WITH . . . a haddock!
Herring. 😁
Dang.
Cut down a tree with a herring? It can’t be done!
Say ‘what’ one more time motherfucker
