"Kay Easton" wrote in message
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Plants are a lot less fussy than the human male about where they deposit
their sperm.
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Really?? Show me a fussy human male....

"Kay Easton" wrote in message
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Plants are a lot less fussy than the human male about where they deposit
their sperm.
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Really?? Show me a fussy human male....

"Kay Easton" wrote in message
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Plants are a lot less fussy than the human male about where they deposit
their sperm.
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Really?? Show me a fussy human male....

"Kay Easton" wrote in message
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Plants are a lot less fussy than the human male about where they deposit
their sperm.
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Really?? Show me a fussy human male....

"Kay Easton" wrote in message
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Plants are a lot less fussy than the human male about where they deposit
their sperm.
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Really?? Show me a fussy human male....

There does seem to be some confusion~~ though perhaps understandably. The so
called seeds of the strawberry are actually fruits in their own right
{achenes]. The strawberry is not a berry any more than the blackberry [a
collection of fruits each of which is a drupe similar to a plum] Take into
account with the dandelion that being of the compositeae each 'flower' is
actually a bunch of dozens of flowers and hence again each of the 'seeds'
are genuine fruits. A fruit, botanically, does not have to be succulent~~~
most are dry and winged or hooked. The only common aspect of fruits is that
they all contain one or more seeds.
Best Wishes
"Gregg Cattanach" wrote in message
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"Kay Easton" wrote in message
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Plants are a lot less fussy than the human male about where they deposit
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Really?? Show me a fussy human male....


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meat n potatoes wrote:

i was eating a strawberry and was suddenly bowled over by a profoundly
puzzling fact. ever notice the seeds on the strawberry are on the
outside? but why?
all fruits have the seeds on the inside. take a blueberry, grape,
cherry, apple, tomato, etc. etc.

why do strawberries have the seeds on the outside? it's like a guy
with sperm on the outside of his ballsack. that shit is weird.

(And so, after five years of jokes about Gaza being reduced to
rec.gardening for cross-trolls...)

Derek Janssen (ironic, isn't it?)

In the Year of the Monkey, the Great and Powerful Derek Janssen
declared:

(And so, after five years of jokes about Gaza being reduced to
rec.gardening for cross-trolls...)


I'm just surprised he didn't go for the more obvious, "Why are they
called strawberries if they don't look like straw?"

--
Sean O'Hara
Gibberish in Neutral: http://diogenes-sinope.blogspot.com
Jeff: Well, it's kind of hard to tell isn't it 'cos you tend to fast
forward if anyone's dressed. Sometimes I forget and do that with
proper films. I can get through a lot of movies in an evening.
--Coupling

In the Year of the Monkey, the Great and Powerful Derek Janssen
declared:

(And so, after five years of jokes about Gaza being reduced to
rec.gardening for cross-trolls...)


I'm just surprised he didn't go for the more obvious, "Why are they
called strawberries if they don't look like straw?"

--
Sean O'Hara
Gibberish in Neutral: http://diogenes-sinope.blogspot.com
Jeff: Well, it's kind of hard to tell isn't it 'cos you tend to fast
forward if anyone's dressed. Sometimes I forget and do that with
proper films. I can get through a lot of movies in an evening.
--Coupling

human males are fussy about it?
lucy

"Kay Easton" wrote in message
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In article , meat n
potatoes writes
i was eating a strawberry and was suddenly bowled over by a profoundly
puzzling fact. ever notice the seeds on the strawberry are on the
outside? but why?

It's because the bit that develops into the fruit is underneath the
seeds

all fruits have the seeds on the inside. take a blueberry, grape,
cherry, apple, tomato, etc. etc.

A lot of plants have their seeds on the outside, it's just that we're
only interested in eating them if what's under the seed is fleshy and
juicy.

why do strawberries have the seeds on the outside? it's like a guy
with sperm on the outside of his ballsack. that shit is weird.

No - the seed isn't like the sperm, it's the already fertilised egg, so
the strawberry is more equivalent to the koala carrying its baby on its
back as opposed to the kangaroo with its joey in its pouch.

The plant equivalent of sperm is pollen - and that of course *is* on the
outside ;-)
Plants are a lot less fussy than the human male about where they deposit
their sperm.
--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm

human males are fussy about it?
lucy

"Kay Easton" wrote in message
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In article , meat n
potatoes writes
i was eating a strawberry and was suddenly bowled over by a profoundly
puzzling fact. ever notice the seeds on the strawberry are on the
outside? but why?

It's because the bit that develops into the fruit is underneath the
seeds

all fruits have the seeds on the inside. take a blueberry, grape,
cherry, apple, tomato, etc. etc.

A lot of plants have their seeds on the outside, it's just that we're
only interested in eating them if what's under the seed is fleshy and
juicy.

why do strawberries have the seeds on the outside? it's like a guy
with sperm on the outside of his ballsack. that shit is weird.

No - the seed isn't like the sperm, it's the already fertilised egg, so
the strawberry is more equivalent to the koala carrying its baby on its
back as opposed to the kangaroo with its joey in its pouch.

The plant equivalent of sperm is pollen - and that of course *is* on the
outside ;-)
Plants are a lot less fussy than the human male about where they deposit
their sperm.
--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm

Too much for you ape brain to handle?

A strawberry isn't a berry at all in the botanical sense. Its actually a
fleshy receptacle with the seeds embedded in it.


"meat n potatoes" wrote in message
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i was eating a strawberry and was suddenly bowled over by a profoundly
puzzling fact. ever notice the seeds on the strawberry are on the
outside? but why?
all fruits have the seeds on the inside. take a blueberry, grape,
cherry, apple, tomato, etc. etc.

why do strawberries have the seeds on the outside? it's like a guy
with sperm on the outside of his ballsack. that shit is weird.

Frankly Scarlet, nobody gives a flying fig!!

You do a very poor Seinfeld impression.

They are called strawberries because native Americans put straw around the
plants so that the fruit would stay above the ground and not rot
prematurely. Many still do the practice for the same reason. Not a mystery
at all.

You can spend the rest of your days pondering the mystery of "Grape Nuts".

They're not nuts and there's no grapes in them.
So what's the big deal?


"Sean O'Hara" wrote in
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In the Year of the Monkey, the Great and Powerful Derek Janssen
declared:

(And so, after five years of jokes about Gaza being reduced to
rec.gardening for cross-trolls...)


I'm just surprised he didn't go for the more obvious, "Why are they
called strawberries if they don't look like straw?"

--
Sean O'Hara
Gibberish in Neutral: http://diogenes-sinope.blogspot.com
Jeff: Well, it's kind of hard to tell isn't it 'cos you tend to fast
forward if anyone's dressed. Sometimes I forget and do that with
proper films. I can get through a lot of movies in an evening.
--Coupling

Only those prissy fey fusspots that prance around in tutus!

Who put the sperm in angiosperm?

Beware of the gymnosperms at the Y!


"lucy" wrote in message
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human males are fussy about it?
lucy

"Kay Easton" wrote in message
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In article , meat n
potatoes writes
i was eating a strawberry and was suddenly bowled over by a profoundly
puzzling fact. ever notice the seeds on the strawberry are on the
outside? but why?

It's because the bit that develops into the fruit is underneath the
seeds

all fruits have the seeds on the inside. take a blueberry, grape,
cherry, apple, tomato, etc. etc.

A lot of plants have their seeds on the outside, it's just that we're
only interested in eating them if what's under the seed is fleshy and
juicy.

why do strawberries have the seeds on the outside? it's like a guy
with sperm on the outside of his ballsack. that shit is weird.

No - the seed isn't like the sperm, it's the already fertilised egg, so
the strawberry is more equivalent to the koala carrying its baby on its
back as opposed to the kangaroo with its joey in its pouch.

The plant equivalent of sperm is pollen - and that of course *is* on the
outside ;-)
Plants are a lot less fussy than the human male about where they deposit
their sperm.
--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm

Cereus-validus wrote:


They are called strawberries because native Americans put straw around the
plants so that the fruit would stay above the ground and not rot
prematurely. Many still do the practice for the same reason. Not a mystery
at all.

More mystery than you apparently think.
If your story is correct, how do you explain that they were called
strawberries before Columbus sailed to America and before anyone in
Europe knew that native Americans existed?
I'll admit that perhaps the exact spelling of strawberry wasn't set
until a little later but the name was there.
I know that some people believe they were once called stray berries
perhaps because their runners let them stray away from the patch
where they were planted. When people started mulching with straw,
the name slowly evolved into strawberry.
I wasn't there so I don't know. ;-)

Steve

You no fool me Steverino,

You're making that up.

You claim that Europeans were eating strawberries before they were
introduced from the New World.

Next you will be saying that Romans wore wrist watches with Roman numerals
on them!!


"Steve" wrote in message
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Cereus-validus wrote:


They are called strawberries because native Americans put straw around
the
plants so that the fruit would stay above the ground and not rot
prematurely. Many still do the practice for the same reason. Not a
mystery
at all.

More mystery than you apparently think.
If your story is correct, how do you explain that they were called
strawberries before Columbus sailed to America and before anyone in
Europe knew that native Americans existed?
I'll admit that perhaps the exact spelling of strawberry wasn't set
until a little later but the name was there.
I know that some people believe they were once called stray berries
perhaps because their runners let them stray away from the patch
where they were planted. When people started mulching with straw,
the name slowly evolved into strawberry.
I wasn't there so I don't know. ;-)

Steve