• dalekcaan@feddit.nl
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    3 months ago

    Intelligence is knowing that tomatoes are fruit in the botanical sense, which has no bearing on how they are used in the kitchen and ignores the fact that “vegetable,” for instance, doesn’t mean anything botanically and so maybe we shouldn’t be using botanical terms in the kitchen and going “akshually, tomatoes are a fruit” doesn’t make you sound smart, it just makes you sound like a smarmy pedant.