MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown

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Cake day: March 7th, 2024

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  • because they aren’t eaten for dessert

    This sounds to me like a reasonable way to disqualify something as a culinary fruit.

    Folks like to make a big hullabaloo about tomatoes being technically a fruit, but no one gives a second thought about referring to peppers, cucumbers, green beans, eggplant, avocado, pumpkins & other squash, or corn on-the-cob as vegetables even though they are all technically fruit.

    And I was being picky there, because beans, peas, grains and nuts are all also technically fruit. Heck, lots of “nuts” like peanuts and cashews aren’t even really nuts.

    Keep your taxonomy out of my kitchen:

    • Fruit are sweet.
    • Vegetables are not.
    • Grains make bread.
    • Herbs and spices add a lot of flavor with a little bit. Herbs are the green ones.
    • nuts are. They just are. Don’t think about it too hard.









  • There a real easy answer to that question. The reason they should say “hi” is because they want to. If they don’t want to, then by golly, they don’t have to. It’s as simple as that. Personally, I am not going to foist upon every rando on my block or in my apartment building, the burden of meaningless formalities just because I go to bed every night closer to them than 8 billion other folks’. I let them be so that they can get about with their busy day. That’s just plain considerate.