Quote of the Day

[lathany]

"Mummy, you mustn't pick strawberries, they're dangerous!"

Comments

[jezzidue.livejournal.com]

That's right - red is the colour of DANGER!!!! (you have taught them well ...)

[metame.livejournal.com]

Has Quantumboo got to her already?

Fruit is Good. Fruit with the seeds on the outside is Weird but Good. Here endeth the lesson.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Nooooo!!!!

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Have you introduced them to Paranoia yet?
(the RPG, not the mental disturbance.)

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

Strictly speaking, I think the "seeds" are the fruit (more specifically, they are achenes). The fleshy bit is just a pseudocarp.

(IANAB, but I'm sure leathellin can give more sciencey detail if required...)

[jezzidue.livejournal.com]

That's right - develops from the receptacle .... not the reciprocal (an example of which is the rose hip - which is another pseudocarp .... this time with the seeds on the inside ;-) ) *preparing myself to be shot down by a proper scientist*

[sea-of-flame.livejournal.com]

Wonder if they've been getting taught in playgroup not to pick/eat random berries?

[jezzidue.livejournal.com]

Funny 'cos that's my default - ever take me out into the country and within minutes I'll have gathered armfuls of mushrooms, roots, berries, fruit, herbs and small animals (both vertebrate and invertabrate) .... all of which are "edible" (allegedly) - just ask Secretrebel. Comes of being from Devon you see .... just ask Metame ;-)

[jezzidue.livejournal.com]

... and the Ardennes is providing rich pickings :-) :@) ;-)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_alanna/]

Ok, al_fruitbat says...

...err... actually he can't be bothered to answer because it's not an animal question.

Mr al_fruitbat he say "Pah, who's interested in plants anyway?" :P

[jezzidue.livejournal.com]

No no no .... when I say proper scientist, I mean someone who actually does it for a living! *hides under desk*

[http://users.livejournal.com/_alanna/]

That would be me... and I deferred to al_fruitbat. Well, I tried to ;o)

[lathany.livejournal.com]

I didn't teach them at all! More amusingly, Bea couldn't tell me why they were dangerous.

[lathany.livejournal.com]

He's been over since we had the twins, but I don't recall if he met them or not.

[lathany.livejournal.com]

Do you actually eat the stuff, or wave it about claiming that it's "edible"?

[jezzidue.livejournal.com]

I eat the edible ... and wave around the "edible".

I cooked a casserole of orange and yellow bracket funghi for Metame and Leathellin last year - we're all still alive ... and it didn't taste at all bad actually ;-)

[sea-of-flame.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my parents do the same if we're holidaying on a clean bit of coastline - shrimps, seaweed and so forth. Less so in woodlands - presumably on the grounds that the beach was actually quite good at protecting children from itself (most stuff tastes too salty to start with anyway, and shrimps/crabs are good at escaping), whereas poisonous berries looked rather like edible ones, and didn't necessarally discourage children by tasting bad ;)

[al-fruitbat.livejournal.com]

This from the fellow who had to be stopped when he was trying to freeze a spare bag of mussels...