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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?
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.
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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.
That reminds me, I must go check if the oregano is ready to harvest.
Edit: I'll check again in two weeks
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
Outstanding meme abuse.
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?
How can vegetarians be real if our vegetables aren’t real?
Now you're asking the questions they don't want you to ask
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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.
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Rosemary does grow like a shrub if you let it. A regular size one.
Bananas are berries
WHAT?
I fear a storm is coming
Wait, basil?
Rosemary, I get (and also thyme, btw), but basil? At best, the dried out stalks of a basil can look a bit woody, but that's true for a lot of plants.
When Basil matures, especially after it flowers it gets pretty woody
Yup, gardeners are encouraged to cut off the tops of basil so that it doesn't flower (and then it doesn't turn woody).
Basil I forgot about and dried:
Everyone in here talking about science and my stupid ass thought this was a reference to the song Scarborough fair
Say 'what' one more time motherfucker
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Basilicum makes wood, obviously.
Herb
I thought shrubs were defined from multiple stem growth
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