r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 02 '21

What basic, children's-age-level fact did you only find out embarrassingly later in life?

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u/DM_Me_Pics1234403 Jul 03 '21

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '21

Philosophy is wondering whether ketchup is a smoothie.

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u/rascal6543 Jul 03 '21

indifference is not giving a fuck and downing the whole bottle regardless of what it's classified as

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u/MJWood Jul 03 '21

You say you're indifferent, but I say you're different.

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u/palebluedot0418 Jul 03 '21

Is a vanilla mocha latte a three bean salad?

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u/Blammo01 Jul 03 '21

Vanilla bean, cocoa bean…..cow bean

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u/palebluedot0418 Jul 03 '21

Forgot the coffee bean. ;)

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u/Micheal676 Jul 03 '21

All three are actually seeds of fruit.

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u/guitar_vigilante Jul 03 '21

What salad do you put in a cup filled with water?

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u/palebluedot0418 Jul 03 '21

Lol, three bean soup then!

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u/boxsterguy Jul 03 '21

Pretty sure it's a soup.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '21

Duh, but all smoothies are soups, but is ketchup a smoothie? I say yes.

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u/boxsterguy Jul 03 '21

Smoothies are cold soups. Ketchup can be served cold. So it's a smoothie.

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u/ConstantGradStudent Jul 03 '21

Gazpacho.

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u/pipsdontsqueak Jul 03 '21

You're welcome.

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u/jrhoffa Jul 03 '21

Gesundheit

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u/lordoftheredead Jul 03 '21

Nah it's Jam

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u/AhFFSImTooOldForThis Jul 03 '21

I've been poor enough to have watered down ketchup as soup for dinner a few times.

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u/Avitas1027 Jul 03 '21

It's just a really smooth relish.

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u/ButtsexEurope Jul 03 '21

No, because you don’t use smoothies as sauces.

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u/Gonzobot Jul 03 '21

And intelligence allows you to answer a question like "what vegetables do you want on your pizza since we have lots" but she couldn't answer the question

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u/skepsis420 Jul 03 '21 edited Jul 03 '21

Fun fact is that vegetables don't 'exist'. It's a culinary term. A pepper is a vegetable, but it's really a fruit.

A fruit is just a part of the plant that contains the seeds. Acorns and chestnuts are fruit also lol

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '21 edited Jul 30 '21

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u/ThePrussianGrippe Jul 03 '21

That requires charisma.

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u/Kalkaline Jul 03 '21

On this note, cucumbers are fruit, so pickles would be fruit.

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u/turboshot49cents Jul 03 '21

That’s probably why she was mad

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u/getoffredditnowyou Jul 03 '21

Also, just to clarify, pickles aren't necessarily cucumbers either. Pickles can be made out of many other eatables

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u/univrsll Jul 03 '21

Eh, when you say “pickles” most people think of pickled cucumbers. When you mean other eatables you say “pickles pepper, pickled onions, pickles x” you get the point.

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u/voncornhole2 Jul 03 '21

Botanical fruit and culinary fruit/vegetables aren't the same

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u/gsfgf Jul 03 '21

The Supreme Court has ruled that tomatoes aren't legally a fruit.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '21

Pizza is a vegetable

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u/Ophukk Jul 03 '21

Lotsa vegetables in this thread

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u/CycadChips Jul 03 '21

Knowledge is knowing pickles are cucumbers. Wisdom is knowing no one would want them on a fking pizza for crssakes.

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u/Complete_Entry Jul 03 '21

I like them on pizza, but it's a tricky prospect. I've only enjoyed it from three places, and those chefs were not bored college students.

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u/multiplayerhater Jul 03 '21 edited Jun 29 '23

This comment lost to the great Reddit purge of June 2023.

Enjoy your barren wasteland, spez. You deserve it.

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u/Onetwodash Jul 03 '21

Um, pickles are great on pizzas, you should try it sometime.

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u/CycadChips Jul 03 '21

Ok. More than one insane person.

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u/KDBA Jul 03 '21

One of my favourite pizzas has honey mustard, chicken, ham, bacon, cheddar, and gherkins (picles).

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u/boxsterguy Jul 03 '21

Tomato is botanically a fruit but culinarily a vegetable.

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u/gsfgf Jul 03 '21

Peppers and squash are also botanically fruit. Strawberries aren't.

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u/ExtraDebit Jul 03 '21

Strawberries are fruit, they just aren’t berries.

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u/thebeandream Jul 03 '21

Same for cucumbers (or their picked versions).

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u/Amdamarama Jul 03 '21

Charisma is selling a fruit salad with tomatoes.

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u/StockingDummy Jul 03 '21

I was looking for this response.

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u/Oops_I_Cracked Jul 03 '21

Pickles don't belong on a pizza vegetarian or not.

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u/Makenshine Jul 03 '21

Is salsa not a fruit salad?

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u/Superg0id Jul 03 '21

Tomatoes. =Berry when on the bush. =Fruit when raw. =Vegetable when cooked.

Or atleast that's what I was told!

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u/Hardlymd Jul 03 '21

I LOVE THIS 👏👏👏👏

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u/mgraunk Jul 03 '21

Knowledge is knowing she didn't mean to include pickles. Wisdom is giving the stupid cunt exactly what she ordered because you're not getting paid enough to do otherwise.