Am I expecting too much? - Page 3

[Brigianna]

Originally Posted by Ravin

But while monkeys and apes are subsets of primates, apes are not subsets of monkeys. So says this ape! Really, it's an "us/them" categorization mentality. I think people who think of humans as not being primates more easily call any primate a "monkey". But humans are apes, just like chimpanzees. So unless you're a monkey's uncle, or your uncle was a monkey, you shouldn't diss your cousins by calling them monkeys.

That makes sense. I remember hearing a while ago about some guy who wanted to bring his pet monkey on an airplane with him using the argument that since humans were related to monkeys, the monkey was his "family member." I'm not sure what the airline did...

BTW--why isn't a coconut a nut? I thought it was just a really big nut. Seriously. Plants are SO not my thing...

A coconut is the fruit of the coco palm tree. I don't know why it's called a coconut instead of a coco fruit though.

[Ravin]

Okay I looked it up online and found this on a website for a company that sells coconut oil:


21. Are coconuts a nut, fruit, or vegetable?
Actually, they can be classified as all three in some form. The meat of the coconut is usually referred to as fruit, and the coconut itself is the nut, or seed, that will reproduce into a coconut palm tree if allowed to sprout and grow, and the oil made from coconuts is classified as a "vegetable oil" in terms of commodity trading.

I also found a botany type site that basically described the husk on the outside of the coconut as the fruit, and the coconut itself as the seed/nut.

However, as they are palm nuts, I would think they don't fall into the same allergen category as deciduous tree nuts.