Strawberry. It's not a berry?

So, here I was. Looking through my twitter, checking my updates to see if there's any interesting things my t-list tweeted that hour. I looked some, and happened to see one that pretty much blew my mind and my perspective of these two fruits.

The tweet said, "Did you know that strawberries are not considered a berry? And that a banana is considered a berry?"

I remember reading that and reacted out loud with a "WHAT THE F@#!#$?". As I saw that, I needed to research that specific information a little bit.

So I googled both strawberry and banana, which enlightened me as to why that fruit is considered what it is.



Apparently, strawberry is not considered a berry since its seeds are seen on the outside, whereas fruits that are berries, like blueberries and blackberries, have them inside.
"So why did they even call it a berry?" Some say that "English children who picked the fruit, strung them on grass straws and sold them as 'Straws of berries'".



Bananas are, in fact, berries, since the seeds can be found in the fleshy inner layer.

If you knew these facts already, then GOOD FOR YOU. 21 years of thinking strawberry was berry was all... A LIE. This is news to me, as you can see. I remember telling this to a good friend of mine and she was flabbergasted by it. She was in denial knowing that what she believed from the beginning was all a misunderstanding. Nowadays, she jokingly calls strawberry, "straw". And banana? "Bananaberry".