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[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I've heard every combination of "[food] is actually [plant part]" so any time anyone says this type of sentence, I just roll my eyes.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Potatoes

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

too.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah it's just meaningless factoids to me now.

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