Now make him freak out again by telling him peanuts aren’t nuts.
Okay, this may paint me in a bad light, but I was fucking 40 before I learned peanuts grew underground. I ain’t Joe Rogan stupid, but dang.
Nobody around here grew them (that I know of), and I never went anywhere that grew them where I would see them.
I assumed they were like any legume, growing above ground like peas or green beans.
But noooooo, they’re ground nuts. Which I thought was a different plant entirely.
Out of all my damn family on both sides, visiting (and working on) various farms, nobody grew the damn things.
So, yeah.
In plenty of languages peanuts are also called ‘ground nuts’ or ‘earth nuts’
Does this mean it’s valid to make fun of those who don’t know obvious things if they’re 30 or older?
No, because there are error bars on “things”, and “everyone”, and “knows”, and on “by the time they are 30”.
This means that statistically, following a Bell curve on where people land based on this, there will be some that will be much older, and much younger that have heard of a specific thing to the point of “knowing” it.
Yea, hate him or not, he immediately researched his incorrectness. This is not something we should make fun of. Education is how we solve ignorance, even if the topic is nuts.
Nah I’ve watched him ask for a claim to be checked, his checker came back saying that it was a true claim when it was total bullshit.
Dude gets zero credit for half assed - at best - fact checking. Peanuts are not dire, but the dumbass wants to get into life or death real world shit without doing the work. Fuck Rogan.
Seeing how cashews grow is the one that fucked me up.
Explains why they cost so much.
I live in SW Ontario which used to be prime tobacco territory as in teenagers used to work tobacco fields in the 90’s when I was in HS. Both peanuts and tobacco love a loose sandy soil.
Point being, no one is expected to know how something grows unless they have some knowledge that makes them intimate or they’re a fucking nerd. Lol
Joe Rogan’s not stupid, he just had chronic traumatic encephalopathy from some injuries in his early twenties. Also he is an asshole.
Well, being as generous as possible, he says things a stupid person would say, with a high frequency. If that’s due to tbi, I feel sorry for him, but he’s still saying a lot of stupid stuff.
I might be wrong, but I doubt that the TBI left him to be a different person than he was before.
My physics teacher had a TBI from a kart race accident that left him temporarily paralyzed and he had to relearn how walk and speak. People often assumed he was stupid or incapable because of the way he talked, but he was probably the brightest guy in that school by a long shot.
His mnemonics were also top notch. An example: Mnemonics are called “Eselsbrücke” in German (it literally translates to donkey bridge). When learning about harmonic motion, he asked us “What is the Latin word for donkey? That’s right: asinus. A * sin(wt)”. Genius.
Another one that I still use to this day: how to remember what is concave and what is convex? “If a girl has sex, her belly grows convex.”
Okay, this may paint me in a bad light, but I was fucking 40 before I learned peanuts grew underground. I ain’t Joe Rogan stupid, but dang.
I think that’s why dudes are magnetized to Joe. Interesting trivia that at no point does the average person need to think about are brought up and it’s fascinating.
Unfortunately, Joe also mixes in conspiracy BS. His extreme lack of critical thinking (or thinking with cherry picked data to fit a particular narrative), is why his fans are constantly belittled by people looking in.
To be fair to the dude, I didn’t know this either until a teacher taught by teaching us about peanuts. How many of us know much about most of the things we eat?
What do you eat that you don’t know about? Barring a lot of newer preservatives food is pretty straightforward.
It’s one of those “you don’t know what you don’t know” things. I apparently make a lot of assumptions about the things I eat. Some examples of things I was surprised about:
- coffee beans aren’t beans, they’re closer to cherries
- how pineapples grow
- avocados are apparently berries
- what adult asparagus look like
And so on. I’m sure there are a ton more, and I’m always excited to find something that really surprises me.
Botanical classifications are always crazy. Most nuts are wild too, check out walnuts. How many things we eat that are clones of a specific plant is really curious too. Apples, avocados, citrus, bananas…
Name 5 berries without looking up the definition of a berry, or the comic about it that gets posted every so often.
Blue berry, raspberry, very berry, Boisen berry, strawberry, power berry, RAW BERRY! ⚡
The difference being that they’re all berries. A scientific ovary does not a legitimate word or colloquial use make.
The point being that most people have a pretty good idea about where a food comes from or grows since most generally come from similar areas when you factor in skin, softness, and size beyond just general knowledge.
Considering the only real difficulty comes from legumes for most people because they can grow in the ground or above ground… It’s a bit disingenuous to start busting people out on fruit vs fruiting body debate.
How did we do an entire module on George Washington Carver in first grade, and they never told me peanuts grow in the ground like potatoes