• Zezzy [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    Looks like going back to old English, strawberries were still berries. The botanical meaning was only added in the 1700s.

    So blackberries, raspberries, tomatoes, pineapples, strawberries, and eggplants are all berries

    • Orcocracy [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      8 months ago

      Yeah, much like peanuts not being nuts and Stonehenge not being a henge, it’s all the fault of a small number of assholes a couple of hundred years ago who desperately wanted to redefine things so that they could tell other people that they were wrong.