TOMATOES: Fruit or Vegetable?

Well, basically, it's a fruit, as something produced by a plant to bear their seeds. Biological and botanical terms claim it so.

But if the term of fruit means something eaten as a dessert (like apples, pears, peaches), then tomatoes are included into vegetables (since they are cooked as vegetables and USUALLY produce non-sweet cuisine). Confusing heh?

You may ask the same question for RHUBARBS.

ADDITIONAL SPAM: Why do threads about tomatoes mushroom rapidly?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Crash Landon

Mushrooms are a fungus, you moron.

You're the moron.

What I mean is that out of nowhere, topics about tomatoes appear like mushrooms growing in rainy season, doorknob.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by a lurker

This is why context is important. No one cares what botanists think, that's why people still get poison ivy all the time.

Can't agree more. That's what I've been dying to tell anyone around me, but hell, they just don't give shit to botany ^^

But seriously, to fight over a silly thing as a tomato

I'm impressed.

How ya doing, buddy?