This is what happens when people have a basic knowledge of history and basic background knowledge of their field of expertise.
That’s not to minimize their intelligence and competence; that’s to say that it is expected that astronomers would know the names and histories of major nearby celestial bodies.
Ok so now let’s assume a god like sentient creature formed our universe. Maybe they even intentionally created us.
We have no indication that they even once interacted with us in over 2000 or rather several million years.
Let’s go further and assume the god like creature is indeed the Christian God.
We have an immortal, allknowing and allmighty God who doesn’t care about innocent dying, suffering and other cruelties. So if the Christian God exists he is an asshole!
Tomato toxic when it green, but delicious when it red. Creeping nightshade toxic when it green, but has anyone even tried it when it red? Probably delicious.
Potatoes fall into this category too of both delicious and nightshade fun. So tastes great like anti freeze but it takes a lot longer to finally get you.
From just some cursory googling it looks like they are toxic when raw, but frying them neutralizes the toxicity. That’s probably why you’ve never noticed!
The original issue stems from an agricultural conmerce point, however, as the definitions dictated vastly different tariff rates, etc. In short, vegetables were often staples, and fruits were seen as luxuries. Therefore, when tomatoes first began arriving from the East, the savvy trader would call them vegetables in order to lessen their own cost to transport them, but claim they were fruit when wholesaling inland, IIRC.
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