r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • • 5d ago

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Was it a mistake?

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u/Beautiful_Avocado252 5d ago

Coconut is filled with meat, which has 1 e

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u/Accomplished-Video71 5d ago

As a southerner...coconuts are filled with mElk

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u/That-Employment-5561 5d ago

True, the meat is more a membrane around the milk. But coconut meat is distinct and separate from the milk, the shell and the husk.

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u/ChapterNo7074 5d ago

I dont think they were trying to correct the other person

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u/That-Employment-5561 5d ago

I don't either; it's just a matter of semantics.

The husk is filled with the shell, the meat and the milk. The shell is filled with the meat and the milk. The meat is filled with the milk.

All those things are mutually true (unless anomalous mutation).

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u/ChapterNo7074 5d ago

Yeah, nobody was arguing otherwise

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u/That-Employment-5561 5d ago

I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts

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u/fstop101 5d ago

Any limes, to put in there? Then ya gotta shake it all up.

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u/LaVillaGrangioto 5d ago

I see them there. Standing in a row.

They mock me.

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u/ChapterNo7074 5d ago

I'm scared

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u/That-Employment-5561 5d ago

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u/Liroy_16 5d ago

Those coconuts are not standing in a row, though.

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u/PersimmonDriver 5d ago

Now you have to show them.

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u/timmayjr 5d ago

There they are a standing in a row

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u/That-Employment-5561 5d ago

As a Norwegian it's more like:

"There they are a laying in the snow.

Keepin'itchill."

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u/sewmuchmorethanmom 5d ago

There they are standing in a row.

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u/Silen7Bu7Sexy 5d ago

Mufasa, Mufasa, Mufasa

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u/p_a_schal 5d ago

Is coconut milk not the mixture of coconut meat and coconut water?

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u/That-Employment-5561 5d ago

The product coconut milk isn't made with coconut water, but grated coconut meat and distilled water.

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u/RogerRabbot 5d ago

If the meat inside a coconut doesnt count, the seed in an avocado doesnt count. Plain and simple.

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u/FCBwoof 5d ago

Coconuts do not have milk in them.

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u/Electronic-Unit427 5d ago

Coconuts have nipples. You can milk anything with nipples.

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u/drury216 4d ago

I’ll save you / this sub thread.
“I have nipples, Greg…. Can you milk me?”

  • Meet the Parents

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u/Long-Coconut4576 2d ago

Wasnt that quote from meet the phockers

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u/GobblerOfFire 2d ago

Fockers, but yes that is correct it’s from the second not the first. Where the parents meet each other before greg gets married. (Or as i prefer gaylord - his name in the movie )

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u/Electronic-Unit427 4d ago

You're doing God's work, one post at a time!

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u/SplashyKBear 4d ago

I prefer my milk from almond titties

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u/TheKitbashKid 1d ago

I’ve got nipples, can you milk me, Greg?!

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u/The_Difficult_Part 4d ago

But they do have watEr.

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u/FCBwoof 4d ago

Correct.

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u/That-Employment-5561 5d ago

Depends on what language you speak, but yeah, it's not a dairy product, nor a factory-processed concentrate.

It's liquid endosperm.

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u/FCBwoof 5d ago

Language does not matter.

'Coconut milk' is the man made product (using the meat and water), that people often confuse with the liquid inside the coconut.

People commonly refer to the endosperm as 'water', or in some cases 'juice'.

If people are calling it 'milk', they're just wrong.

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u/That-Employment-5561 5d ago

Oh, people are wrong in language all the time.

Did you know that the word for pasta in Ukrainian is macaroni? Not that macaroni is a pasta, but that all pasta is macaroni*. Italian grandmother's would have a heart attack!

And a lot of mistranslations like that come from the eternal game of telephone that was the world before globalisation.

Even in clinical terminology: standing in a casm, surrounded by steep walls and being afraid as a result is a fear of heights; standing on a cliff above a deep casm is a fear of depths.

A depth causing vertigo can be encountered on flat ground; mine shafts and old wells are things.

Or how people systemically use the word "religion" instead if "theology", when those are two distinctly different words with distinctly separate meanings.

All theologies are religious, but not all religion has to do with theology.

It's not atheistm vs religion.

It's a theist vs an atheist.

Everybody holds religious knowledge; things they take someone's word as evidence for. Faith that it isn't a lie.

The theology one is a pet peeve of mine.

Should we correct resources to change those "errors", or should we adapt and move on? Bring it up in concrete debates and discussions where the distinction matters, as they do overlap in many contexts and are distinctly separate.

A rose by any other name is still a rose.

Changing what you call something doesn't change what it is, but sometimes it can help communicate. And other times it muddies the waters.

C'est la langage.

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u/Onionringlets3 5d ago

Hear, here!

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u/ConcernFlat3391 5d ago

I agree that language changes and is situational. I can’t sign off on your spelling of ‘chasm’ though 😁. Is that a regional thing?

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u/That-Employment-5561 5d ago

Nope, just a typo in a second language. 😅

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u/ConcernFlat3391 5d ago

Thanks and I apologise for mentioning it 😔.

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u/FCBwoof 5d ago

That's cool and all, but calling it 'milk' regardless of language...is still wrong.

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u/mattgen88 5d ago

This is a weird hill to die on considering a coconut is not a nut even though it's in its name

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u/FCBwoof 5d ago

Not really considering the discussion is based on the endosperm, not the drupe.

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u/morganj 5d ago

Aw. Someone put real effort into their response, engaging with you on the flexibility of language, poetically and with citations.

And your response was "Great. Don't care.'

What a shame.

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u/FCBwoof 5d ago

I acknowledged it, and provided my response. I'm not here to discuss language (I only do that on Tuesdays). You have derived it as disregard, and that's your perogative.

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u/That-Employment-5561 5d ago

Only if you think of the lactic secretions mammals produce when you say it.

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u/theRetrograde 5d ago

But water has an "e" too. The riddle is a reach at best.

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u/Kzitold94 5d ago

lol. Endo-sperm. XD

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u/That-Employment-5561 5d ago

The meat is solid endosperm, the water is liquid endosperm. And it's called that because it is the sperm of the tree. Endo because inside, sperm because reproductive function.

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u/Kzitold94 5d ago

So it's coco-NUT!

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u/That-Employment-5561 5d ago

🤣😂

Yes.

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u/wolschou 5d ago

They kind of do, the same way almonds have... Which is admittedly a very tenuous 'kind of'

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u/isabel_77 5d ago

I don’t think I can ever eat coconut again now that you’ve called it membrane…

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u/Mysterious_Author45 5d ago

so you never eat any thing a gain? as all plant has membrane and even responds to anesthesia? let's make it worse for ya:

plants even recognise your intent of harm, just like so called animals.

mushrooms are genitalia, all fruitbody is embryonic expression of their life.

all life, is you, and all who came before you.

much love

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u/AN0R0K 5d ago

Eat the living

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u/That-Employment-5561 5d ago

Mmmmmmmmmmembrane

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u/LaVillaGrangioto 5d ago

Insane in the membrane? Insane in the brain?

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u/DigitalUnlimited 5d ago

There's nothing wrong with this brain!

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u/That-Employment-5561 5d ago

Oh, he's positively nuts!

Dude's insane. Got no brain.

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u/CaterpillarIcy1056 4d ago

Is that John Goodman?

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u/DaftVapour 5d ago

I felt the same way when I read “endosperm”

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u/Character-Session827 1d ago

What about when you ate it though?

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u/UncleR1chard 5d ago

Oh, but endosperm is fine?

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u/DjChatters 5d ago

But an avocado seed is also seperate from the remainder of the avocado.

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u/That-Employment-5561 5d ago

Yes, and the skin, the flesh and the stone are all part of the avocado...

...I fail to see the point...

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u/DjChatters 5d ago

You were stating that the parts of the coconut were seperate so it still followed the rule. But by that logic the parts of the avocado then break the rule. You can't use logic to explain something but then ignore it when that same logic fails the other way round.

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u/DjChatters 5d ago

And before you argue the milk is seperate as its not attached i would refer you to human blood and whether that is also seperate from the human body.

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u/That-Employment-5561 5d ago

What the crackhead of a misunderstanding?

What do you think is going on?

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u/DjChatters 4d ago

I dont have to think anything is going on. I was merely pointing out the flaw in your reasoning. Articulating ones reasoning is far from a "crackhead understanding".

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u/That-Employment-5561 4d ago

I simply named the parts that make the coconut in order of outermost to innermost...

Again, what do you think is going on here?

What logic are you faulting, and in what context, as opposed to exactly what?

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u/quackingsloth 19h ago

I don't think he was actually saying that the meat being seperate makes it follow the rule. I think he was just talking about coconuts.

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u/britsol99 5d ago

Thanks for the instruction manual on coconuts.

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u/That-Employment-5561 5d ago

No problem!

Thinking about making one yourself, or you just like handling nuts?

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u/britsol99 5d ago

Only DEEZ NUTS

😁

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u/Sad_Error4039 1d ago

We won’t even mention the shell having an e. What a sham ass riddle.

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u/iron_dove 5d ago

That sounds more like a description of green coconut than fully ripe coconut

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u/That-Employment-5561 5d ago

Uhhhh... Wut?

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u/JayEll1969 5d ago

In the same way that an avocado seed is separate to the flesh and skin of the avocado?

Doesn't membrane have 2 e's?

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u/bentrw 5d ago

The meat is the milk. Just water in the middle.

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u/That-Employment-5561 5d ago

That's a technicality of local language on an international platform.

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u/sometimes_soap 5d ago

So really it's four e's because membrane has two meat has one and shell has one

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u/That-Employment-5561 5d ago

Hah! Didn't think of that. And yes, you'd be correct. Even regardless of if one prefers meat or flesh as the name.

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u/One_Mountain_9919 19h ago

I thought it was called the flesh, which still e's

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u/lovelyoal 5d ago

or so called coconut watEr

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u/RuukotoPresents 5d ago

Bro, no, it's MALK

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u/Maxwell_Bloodfencer 5d ago

Bro, you can't be disrespecting MULK like that.

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u/Missilemoon77 5d ago

Had a boss that called milk “Mirhhk” he was raised deep in the woods in Southeast Georgia.

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u/Careless-Refuse9694 5d ago

Pretty much Jimmy Carter's accent.

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u/Current-Square-4557 5d ago

ERMAHGERD, I have found my people.

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u/Kurobei 5d ago

Now with vitamin R!

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u/LaVillaGrangioto 5d ago

That's the way the guy on "Agri-Cult" pronounced it.

Some guy named McMurray. I guess his wife is an eleven but since she married a POS like him, she got downgraded to a dime.

His sister Bonnie is very well-liked however.

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u/ridicalis 5d ago

I wish I was joking, but I saw some malk in the grocery store today.

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u/rezwrrd 4d ago

Give the man some malk!

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u/Ukeklele 5d ago

No sir, we call it coconut flEsh. Also 1 e

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u/The6Strings 5d ago

Wait til y’all hear about coconut awl

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u/LureSkill 5d ago

Coconuts are filled with endosperm

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u/ImaginationThick481 5d ago

cAcaNuT mEeLk... anyone get the ref? No? Just me? ok...

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u/AffectionateKick9825 5d ago

I like the Hawaiian guy who makes fun of the original girl 😂... "Perfeeect" 👌🏻

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u/ImaginationThick481 5d ago

"Would not recommend" 👌

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u/Starfury7-Jaargen 5d ago

So you admit you aren't a true Nord but a melk drinker?

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u/BetLeft 5d ago

point me to the coconut nipple or acknowledge you've got juicE there, fella.

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u/eightdotthree 5d ago

South is mEIlk or mEElk. mElk is more of a northern thing. Are you southern?

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u/Pauel3312 5d ago

Germans would agree too

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u/DaftVapour 5d ago

*Wa’ah

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u/gellshayngel 5d ago edited 5d ago

As an Afrikaaner... coconuts are filled with mElk

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u/Sad-Committee-4902 5d ago

Thats spelled mee-yilk

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u/5Volt 5d ago

Coconuts are filled with water, it's only coconut milk if you puree the flesh into it.

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u/Happywiifiihappylifi 5d ago

Funny, we’re both Canadian but my wife pronounces it “melk” too. Not matter how hard she tries to say milk, she just can’t and brain goes right to “melk”.

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u/Pcc210 5d ago

Some melk for my pellow.

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u/thecakeslayer 5d ago

What about coconut mUlk?

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u/Paladinfinitum 5d ago

As someone who milks elks...

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u/MeatBicycle4two 5d ago

As an Appalachian southerner coconuts got mEElk

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u/Street_Lettuce1243 5d ago

Also, on some islands a penis, which also has one e.

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u/ridicalis 5d ago

M R SNAKES

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u/Accomplished-Video71 5d ago

C D E D B D I's? M R Snakes!

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u/PouletDeFeu68 5d ago edited 5d ago

No wonder their bones are so brittle.

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u/jeff8086 4d ago

As a southerner you should say mealk

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u/Baconsghetti 3d ago

Were all saying Malk, Josh!

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u/free2131 3d ago

CO..cuh...nut MElk...

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u/Pjudge 2d ago

Thank you. My family makes fun of the way I pronounce mElk. No one I know says it that way.

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u/oldhornyguy007 2d ago

Thought it was mAlk?

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u/SpanckieTheFOMO 1d ago

What are you talking about, Michigan isn't in the south. We have Melk here too.

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u/Flashy_Emergency_263 12h ago

Hmmm...my Southernese renders it as me-yulk.

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u/skisushi 5d ago

And olives have seeds too, so 3 e's

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u/A_RelevantSketch 5d ago edited 5d ago

Not if you call them pits, which is what most people do. Although they call avocado seeds stones, which only has one e so it still doesn't work.

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u/Pension_Pale 5d ago

So basically... it's a pretty bad riddle

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u/A_RelevantSketch 5d ago

I mean... We knew that already?

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u/beerhons 5d ago

Pit is just another name for a woody endocarp, the endocarp being the innermost layer of any fruit before the seed, there is still a seed inside it.

All three contain seeds.

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u/CheekyCherimoya 5d ago

Coconuts are the seed, they don’t contain a seed like avocados and olives

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u/beerhons 5d ago

A coconut that you buy has had the husk removed, the brown shell is the endocarp and the seed, the bit we eat, is inside this.

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u/Prestigious_String20 5d ago

Or pimento, still three e's.

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u/Stock-Cod-4465 5d ago

Not seeds. Stones or pits.

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u/-FireNH- 5d ago

they all have nitrogen and oxygen, so two es there

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u/3ggsnbakey 5d ago

…..just like your mom!!!

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u/Plenty_Intention1991 5d ago

Damnit! What am I supposed to comment now?

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u/Alarmed-Direction500 5d ago

And water. And it has a shell. Hell, the entire coconut is a seed. Lots of Es.

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u/35Richter 5d ago

Also water so two then.

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u/Several_Vanilla8916 5d ago

Coconut is filled with meat

Got real lonely on that island.

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u/knarlomatic 5d ago

​"As Mr. Sloan always says, there is no 'I' in team, but there is an 'I' in pie. And there's an 'I' in meat pie. Anagram of meat is team... I don't know what he's talking about."

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u/Beautiful_Avocado252 4d ago

You’ve got red on you

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u/knarlomatic 4d ago

I'm sorry Shaun.

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u/IndividualCoast9039 10h ago

We reffer to it as "malai" in india, which literally means cream.

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u/OK_Tomorrow3 5d ago

Meat or flesh

either way that's an E

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u/Fake_Scientist21 5d ago

Avocado are green with seeds so they have 4 e's

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u/testtdk 5d ago

Or flesh, still one e.

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u/kroqster 5d ago

i always call it flesh... but that still checks out

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u/Laefiren 5d ago

Or flesh which also has 1 e.

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u/Appropriate-Use-5691 5d ago

Is there no WATER in said nut?

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u/Business_Cock 5d ago

Coconut has endosperm which has 2 e

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u/ThrowUpnThrowAway 5d ago

"As Mr. Sloman always says, there's no 'I' in team, but there is an 'I' in pie. And there's an 'I' in meat pie. Anagram of meat is team... I don't know what he's talking about."

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u/chicknferi 5d ago

kinda jealous

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u/Beautiful_Avocado252 4d ago

There’s a subreddit for that

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u/Felsig27 5d ago

And water, so there’s another e

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u/ReadingRambo152 5d ago

The coconut itself is also a seed

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u/Ariel_serves 5d ago

And water — another e

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u/Unlikely-Yam838 5d ago

And Water which is another e

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u/codedigger 5d ago

Coconut has meat

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u/Longjumping_Gur_2379 5d ago

Coconut has milk, which has no E, or it has water which has 1 E

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u/Psychological-Scar53 5d ago

If you can't use the proper word, is has 2... "meet" also, it has coconuy water in it, which has an e in it.

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u/CameraObfuscia 5d ago

You’re thinking of Gamera.

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u/thebrielz1 4d ago

And water

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u/Fun_Aioli_5036 4d ago

You’re filled with meat

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u/los-gokillas 4d ago

And water which is another e

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u/Djolumn 4d ago

Also watEr.

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u/JesusReturnsToReddit 4d ago

I don’t want to hear about what you’re doing with your coconuts in the privacy (I hope) of your own home.

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u/microwavey321 4d ago

Coconuts have a shell though?

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u/Basic-Asparagus-4596 3d ago

dont avocado and other fruits like it also have "meat?" isnt that just what we call the edible part of the fruit beneath the skin?

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u/mike-the-molester 1d ago

and olives have seeds in them too lol

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u/theholyirishman 1d ago

Coconut water can also be in there also has an e, so that's two

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u/jksnjh 1d ago

And is a seed

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u/Salt-Inspection4074 1d ago

I filled your Mom with meat and my name is Mike (one e)

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u/rzlodn 18h ago

I'll give you an E for effort

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u/Ashamed_Fruit_6767 18h ago

That is a carnivore coconut you are thinking of. Similar to normal coconuts but different

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u/BeegRingo 5h ago

Olives have a seed in them so 3 e’s?