Here’s some botanical information to try and wrap your head around: strawberries are indeed fruits, but not in the way you think. Consider most other fruits, w/ their seeds on the INSIDE instead of the out. Why would this be? Because the fleshy, yummy part of the strawberry is not the “fruit bit” at all, but something called a receptacle- the fruits are really those little outer “seeds”, which are referred to as “achenes”, dry little fruits http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_strawberry So if the fleshy part’s not derived from the plant’s ovaries, it’s not botanically the fruit.

Likewise, the flesh of the apple is also just “accessory”- that hard, white stuff you accidentally bite into near at the middle is the genuine fruit.

Strawberry Shortcake was awesome! I live in central Oklahoma (booooooooooring!) and found out a couple of years back that the woman who created Strawberry Shortcake, Muriel Fahrion, lives nearby. I happened to meet her at an Octoberfest event, and my 10 month old was wearing SS shoes!

Sadly for her, though, she worked at American Greetings at the time and has no royalty priveleges. Just like The Man, always bringing us down.

Thank you!