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17-03-2004, 06:42 AM
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a truly baffling question about strawberries
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 |
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