Monday, February 24, 2014

The cranberry deception


Did you know …

That cranberries aren’t actually berries? It’s true!

Cran-“berries” are actually some kind of mushroom, or maybe a species of insect. No one knows for sure. Some people believe that this is the result of a global conspiracy between Ocean Spray and the lizard people, but I’m inclined to think it’s just because nobody cares about cranberries enough to figure it out. And rightly so: cranberries are boring! (Previous Science Facts notwithstanding.)

Bonus fact: So-called “craisins” are something different still! Some kind of petrochemical distillate, I think. I’ll have the team look into it!

No comments:

Post a Comment