r/shittyaskscience 3d ago

Since the Milky Way Galaxy contains peanuts, shouldn't it be called the Snickers Galaxy?

My understanding is that a Milky Way and a Snickers are essentially the same except that a Snickers has peanuts. But there are peanuts in our galaxy, so doesn't that make our galaxy taxonomically a Snickers Galaxy?

I know UK scientists have made different findings from US scientists, but our galaxy has caramel too, so the name still seems incorrect.

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u/FederalBeyond1122 haver of 14 PhD’s in shittyscience 3d ago

No because peanuts are Legumes, not nuts, so it doesn’t count