Berry club [Mr Lovenstein]

Chris

Source: https://mastodon.social/@MrLovenstein/113844297604610435

Secret panel: https://tapas.io/episode/220482

Alt text from replies:
4 panel comic.

First panel: A strawberry, a raspberry, and a blueberry are sitting on the floor. A tomato comes along and asks: "Can I join berry club?" – "Sorry, Tomato. Berries only", says Strawberry.

Second panel: Tomato holds up a sheet of paper. "Well this article says I am a berry and you're not." Angrily, Strawberry says "No way! 'Berry' is right in my name!"

Third panel: Close-up on Strawberry and Raspberry. "What?! I'm an 'accessory' fruit? What the hell is that?!", says Strawberry in disbelief, looking at the paper. "I'm not a Berry either?!!" exclaims Raspberry, sweating.

Fourth panel. "These are strange times for berry club. Strange times." says Blueberry. Tomato, a watermelon, and a banana are sitting next to it. Strawberry is sitting way in the background, looking sad.

[email protected]

Oh, man! Yesterday my daughter asked to confirm that avocados are, in fact, berries.
And they are!

[email protected]

You forgot tomato's line from panel two in the alt text.

[email protected]

The pitfalls of using the same words for culinary categories and scientific categories. We have to ask ourselves the hard questions: If you were an anthropomorphic fruit, would you refer to yourself with culinary or scientific categories?

[email protected]

I'd refer to myself with scientific categories. I'd refer to me so hard.

[email protected]

I think whether I was a fruit or not, I wouldn't want to operate with the assumption that I'm going to be eaten, so scientific categories all the way. As a human, I like to think of myself as a mammal/ape/homo sapien/whatever instead of wondering which parts of me are white meat vs dark meat.

This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥

Chillis are berries too.

[email protected]

I never thought of using tomatos as a way to explore the themes of gender and sexual identity, but there might be something there...

[email protected]

I've wondered quite a bit about my dark meat vs light meat. I've also wondered how well marbled I am. I think I'd be delicious.

[email protected]

As they say, "you eat with your eyes" so most certainly not.

[email protected]

Knowledge is knowing tomato is a fruit.

Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Chris

Mind blown.

[email protected]

Stregnth is being able to crush a tomato

Dexterity is being able to accurately throw a tomato.

Constitution is being able to eat a rotten tomato without getting sick

Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit.

Wisdom is knowing not to put one in a fruit salad.

Charisma is being able to sell a tomato based fruit salad.

Person: Wouldn't a tomato based fruit salad be salsa

Person2: Hey I found the bard!

Bob

Ah, the stoic blueberry.

[email protected]

You mean, it might be fruitful..?

CarrotsHaveEars

I would say intelligence is the ability to absorb the information that tomato is fruit.

[email protected]

That would make an interesting Cap'n Crunch Oops All Berries!

[email protected]

Well these are D&D based stats... generally speaking, doesn't quite fit the rules of reality. IE int would give a bonus to knowledge nature, in addition to increasing skill points allowing you to put points into it. (or in 5e inteligence (nature)), either way in pretty much all iterations the skills tend to be leveled by going out and adventuring. (A DM might grant a circumstance bonus if your character had specifically done some kind of teaching related to the subject, but the rules as written effectively having high int gives a bonus on the chance of knowing something, even if the character hasn't seen a plant or a classroom in years.

[email protected]

Is there a comprehensive list that shows most common berries, fruits etc. categorized?
I could use that for a Pubquiz