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
 

"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

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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

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http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm





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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" 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
 

"............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
 

"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
 

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. ;)

a truly baffling question about strawberries
 

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 13:26:11 GMT, "Cereus-validus"
wrote:

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!!

Of course. They also had little sundial faces with a tiny gnomon sticking out
from them. ;)

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. ;)

a truly baffling question about strawberries
 

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 13:26:11 GMT, "Cereus-validus"
wrote:

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!!

Of course. They also had little sundial faces with a tiny gnomon sticking out
from them. ;)

a truly baffling question about strawberries
 

"Cereus-validus" wrote in message .com...


ok even though this conversation has drifted away from its present
topic i would like to ask a question about growing strawberries. I
want to grow them on the south side of my house along with blueberry
bushes, and rasberry bushes but have been told that they will never
grow on the south side. Is this so?

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a truly baffling question about strawberries
 

"Cereus-validus" wrote in message .com...


ok even though this conversation has drifted away from its present
topic i would like to ask a question about growing strawberries. I
want to grow them on the south side of my house along with blueberry
bushes, and rasberry bushes but have been told that they will never
grow on the south side. Is this so?

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a truly baffling question about strawberries
 

sassy326 wrote:

... i...have been told that they will never
grow on the south side. Is this so?...





They will always be on the south side of something. Were they not, it
were very cold. (and getting colder at this time of year).

Short answer, No.