Plants rarely have their name written on them though
Because corporate logos are intentionally designed to evoke the brand they represent?
Yeah, stupid nature. Doesn't even know the basics of brand recognition.
Also most of the logos are just the name next to an icon. Plants only occasionally have thier name written next to them.
Also most people have little to no reason to identify plants. Most of the time we don't even eat the whole plant, we eat the fruit or the root or some very specific part of the plant. You could easily identify a potato, but could you identify a potato plant? There are a lot of plants where you see a part of it in the store but you've never seen the entire plant. I never knew I had asparagus growing in the garden because what is sold in the store is not what grown asparagus looks like. We don't eat grown asparagus, we eat the young shoots before they've turned woody. A grown asparagus is inedible and the berries are toxic.
If you can't recognize most of the plants in the produce section, you really oughta be eating more fruits and vegetables. I don't really like veggies either and I still know more than 10 plants just in the category of food you can buy with a corporate logo on it.
Vegetables are often the root of the plant. Fruits are the… well fruit.
I think the context of this meme is about the plant as a specimen in nature.
Below is a picture of a carrot plant and onion plant.
If not for survival video games i would not have known.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracleum_mantegazzianum
And the carrot plant looks near identical to Giant Hogsweed because they're both in the same family. One has a delicious carrot underneath and will do you no harm, you can even eat the green tops. The other will cause you severe burns even just by brushing against it. The plant itself doesn't even burn you, it destroys the skin in such a way that sunshine is what burns you.
If plants had their names on their leaves I'd recognize a bunch of them as well.
Let’s make sure to shame the people being bombarded by advertisements for 90% of their lives. That’ll motivate them to be more cognizant of botany
This could as easily be read as a critique of modern capitalism for that very reason.
Broccoli, cabbage, kale, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, bok choy, turnip, radish, collards and Mustard greens. 10 different plants, easy peasy!
I've got some bad news for you...
I choose not to acknowledge it!
To be fair, corporate logos are specifically designed to take advantage of quirks in human cognition to make them distinct and memorable. Most plants pre-date human cognition, and the ones which don't tend to be the ones people recognize instantly.
while reading your comment I had a weird vision of flowering plants in a far off post-human apocalypse that looked like logos of companies.
Don't give them any ideas.
How many of those plants do ppl use in their daily lives? vs How many of those corporate products do they use in their daily lives?
To be fair, the Apple logo is also a plant.
And once you've eaten a rotten apple, you never forget.
Fruits aren't plants
If the names of the plants would be spelled for me under each plant every time then that would greatly enhance my memory.
In fairness if plants had their names written on them, I'd probably be able to identify those as well.
monsanto: "write that down, write that down!"
Cause we don't live in a forest anymore?
I knew there was something wrong with my place in Phoenix, AZ. Dang Democrats stole the forest!
I'm 14 and this is deep
Embrace the smug gardener and only use the latin names
Gonna harvest my Solanum tuberosums.
What’s the latin word for nike?
Victoria
what... how is this a dystopic thing. put aside the fact that knowing brands helps me make decisions all the time and knowing plants wouldn't help me at all since I'm not a forager... you could get rid of all corporations today and make us live in a perfect, moneyless, classless utopia and 20 years later I could still name maybe 4 different flowers because I don't give a shit what they're called.
Also brand marketing is built to sear their brand into your brain vs. plants who just vibe.
I didn't touch that because that's part of the complaint. I'm saying even accepting that as something to complain about, surely you could have much better things to compare than fucking plant names.
is the number 1000 based on anything? i'm curious if there have been any studies on the amount of logos most people recognize. 1000 seems high but also not, so i wonder if there's science to back it up
It's obviously bullshit.
Could you imagine sitting through a survey with over a thousand logos and plants to be able to reach this conclusion?😆
I think it would be possible to reach this conclusion. Using shorter surveys, like Google opinion surveys or something, asking people if they recognize 2-3 logos at a time, run a few hundred of those surveys over a few years and you could categorize each logo based on % of participants who recognized, anything over like 66% could be considered "generally recognizable" and then count how many generally recognizable logos you had.
To be fair, I can't eat plants. Oh wait, that's not fair at all. DAMN IT
No no you are right, you can't eat plants. Checkmate vegans!
I have this condition where if I eat broccoli or cauliflower, I begin to violently projectile vomit due to the taste.
I'm skeptical about the 10 number, fruits and vegetables are plants.
Ok, then. Lets make a list of 11 plants easy to recognised to help society:
- clover
- dandelion
- blackberry thorn
- nettle
- mint. There is different types so this one can be trickier that the others. The leaves are rounded or on the rounded-side and smell like mint when rub btw the finger
- daisy
- daffodil
- cowslip
- mallow
- bindweed
- oaktree
Here you go. Enjoy saving society from its decline.
Plants have no marketing budget this is so sad 😔
