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a truly baffling question about strawberries
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 |
a truly baffling question about strawberries
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 ... 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 |
a truly baffling question about strawberries
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 |
a truly baffling question about strawberries
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 ... 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 |
a truly baffling question about strawberries
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"Cereus-validus" wrote: Only those prissy fey fusspots that prance around in tutus! Who put the sperm in angiosperm? Beware of the gymnosperms at the Y! And beware of the Sago Palms that precede them. G K "lucy" wrote in message m... human males are fussy about it? lucy :) "Kay Easton" wrote in message ... 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 -- Sprout the Mung Bean to reply... ,,Cat's Haven Hobby Farm,,Katraatcenturyteldotnet,, http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...user id=katra |
a truly baffling question about strawberries
In article ,
"Cereus-validus" wrote: Only those prissy fey fusspots that prance around in tutus! Who put the sperm in angiosperm? Beware of the gymnosperms at the Y! And beware of the Sago Palms that precede them. G K "lucy" wrote in message m... human males are fussy about it? lucy :) "Kay Easton" wrote in message ... 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 -- Sprout the Mung Bean to reply... ,,Cat's Haven Hobby Farm,,Katraatcenturyteldotnet,, http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...user id=katra |
a truly baffling question about strawberries
In article ,
"Cereus-validus" wrote: Only those prissy fey fusspots that prance around in tutus! Who put the sperm in angiosperm? Beware of the gymnosperms at the Y! And beware of the Sago Palms that precede them. G K "lucy" wrote in message m... human males are fussy about it? lucy :) "Kay Easton" wrote in message ... 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 -- Sprout the Mung Bean to reply... ,,Cat's Haven Hobby Farm,,Katraatcenturyteldotnet,, http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...user id=katra |
a truly baffling question about strawberries
In article ,
"Cereus-validus" wrote: Only those prissy fey fusspots that prance around in tutus! Who put the sperm in angiosperm? Beware of the gymnosperms at the Y! And beware of the Sago Palms that precede them. G K "lucy" wrote in message m... human males are fussy about it? lucy :) "Kay Easton" wrote in message ... 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 -- Sprout the Mung Bean to reply... ,,Cat's Haven Hobby Farm,,Katraatcenturyteldotnet,, http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...user id=katra |
a truly baffling question about strawberries
"Cereus-validus" writes:
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. The Anglo-Saxons were calling them strawberries 500 years before Columbus. They're recorded at least as far back as Roman times. 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? Alan -- Alan Williams, Room IT301, Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, U.K. Tel: +44 161 275 6270 Fax: +44 161 275 6280 |
a truly baffling question about strawberries
"Cereus-validus" writes:
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. The Anglo-Saxons were calling them strawberries 500 years before Columbus. They're recorded at least as far back as Roman times. 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? Alan -- Alan Williams, Room IT301, Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, U.K. Tel: +44 161 275 6270 Fax: +44 161 275 6280 |
a truly baffling question about strawberries
In article ,
"Cereus-validus" wrote: Only those prissy fey fusspots that prance around in tutus! Who put the sperm in angiosperm? Beware of the gymnosperms at the Y! And beware of the Sago Palms that precede them. G K "lucy" wrote in message m... human males are fussy about it? lucy :) "Kay Easton" wrote in message ... 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 -- Sprout the Mung Bean to reply... ,,Cat's Haven Hobby Farm,,Katraatcenturyteldotnet,, http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...user id=katra |
a truly baffling question about strawberries
"............The Anglo-Saxons were calling them strawberries 500 years
before Columbus. They're recorded at least as far back as Roman times ........." Strawberries were cultivated by the Romans as early as 200 BC and in mediaeval times strawberries were regarded as an aphrodisiac and a soup made of strawberries, borage and soured cream was traditionally served to newly-weds at their wedding breakfast. -- David Hill Abacus nurseries www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk |
a truly baffling question about strawberries
"............The Anglo-Saxons were calling them strawberries 500 years
before Columbus. They're recorded at least as far back as Roman times ........." Strawberries were cultivated by the Romans as early as 200 BC and in mediaeval times strawberries were regarded as an aphrodisiac and a soup made of strawberries, borage and soured cream was traditionally served to newly-weds at their wedding breakfast. -- David Hill Abacus nurseries www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk |
a truly baffling question about strawberries
"............The Anglo-Saxons were calling them strawberries 500 years
before Columbus. They're recorded at least as far back as Roman times ........." Strawberries were cultivated by the Romans as early as 200 BC and in mediaeval times strawberries were regarded as an aphrodisiac and a soup made of strawberries, borage and soured cream was traditionally served to newly-weds at their wedding breakfast. -- David Hill Abacus nurseries www.abacus-nurseries.co.uk |
a truly baffling question about strawberries
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 08:08:01 +0000, Kay Easton wrote:
(snip) Plants are a lot less fussy than the human male about where they deposit their sperm. A lot less fussy than SOME human males. ;) |
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