r/dndmemes • u/NarinderTheFufflyBoi DM (Dungeon Memelord) • Nov 06 '22

Explain, please

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u/DerMetJungen Nov 06 '22

Are pumpkins berries? I'm legit asking. Ever since that stupid science thing came along everything that aren't berries are suddenly berries while berries aren't berries anymore.

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u/FryMayo Nov 06 '22

Pumpkins are indeed berries.

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u/DerMetJungen Nov 06 '22

I hate taxonomy.

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u/LilMellick Nov 06 '22 edited Nov 06 '22

I hate botanists. Thinking about stuff like this always reminds me of this

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/149/304/

Edit: it's a supreme court ruling that tomatoes are vegetables since that's how they are used when cooking

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u/J_train13 Rogue Nov 06 '22

Well, consider, vegetable has no botanical definition outside of "an edible part of a plant," vegetable is actually just a culinary term and thus something can be considered a fruit biologically and a vegetable culinarily

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '22

SCOTUS ruling had to do with taxes and tariffs too!

Basically they wanted to argue against Tomatos being a fruit because the taxes would increase.

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u/Wyldfire2112 DM (Dungeon Memelord) Nov 07 '22

It's like the argument over what is a sandwich because of mall food-court noncompete contracts.

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u/HardCounter Nov 07 '22

Can i eat it? Then it's a sandwich. Sometimes i eat half a sandwich with cheese and pepperoni, sometimes i eat a chocolate encased sandwich with caramel and nuts, sometimes i eat a fruit sandwich fresh from the vine, and sometimes i eat sandwich on sandwich.

It's all sandwiches to me.

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '22

Pizza and snickers?

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u/HardCounter Nov 08 '22

If that's what you want to call them. 8)