TOMATOES: Fruit or Vegetable?

If your roommate thinks tomatoes aren't sweet they've been eating shitty tomatoes for their entire life.

Scientifically speaking tomatoes are fruit, and so are cucumbers, for that matter.

Additionally, do you have a link to this? Why are the courts wasting their time on something like that, first of all, and second of all who do they think they are to ignore the entire system of classification that botany uses to classify plants?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

That's a bit like calling whales fish. It's wrong, and it's dumb.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

That can't apply here because it's a question of calling them a fruit or a vegetable. If you were using the most general sense of the word vegetable (describing everything in the entire plant kingdom) then its status as a "vegetable" is already confirmed, and it would be both a fruit and. In that case, why even bother to ask the question?

Is a puppy a dog or is it a mammal?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Ayos

It's vegetable. Why? Because in my mind, anything that isn't a grape and doesn't grow on trees is a vegetable. I don't care what technicalities you throw at me. Can I easily eat it and enjoy the taste all by itself? No? I have to either put it on a sandwich or make it into a paste? Then it's a vegetable.

I like lots of so-called vegetables by themselves. =(

Originally Posted by Rychord

Well then, instead of calling a carrot a vegetable, start calling it a root. And instead of calling an onion a vegetable, start calling it a bulb. And calling brocolli a flower. And so on.

Of course, that complicates things, but that seems to be the way you want it.

The way I want it is for the US supreme court to stop, for whatever reason, arbitrarily deciding what are fruits and what are vegetables. I didn't bother to read since all Divest linked was a stupid wiki entry, but I can't imagine what reason they would have for even making such a ridiculous ruling.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Yeah, I get that. I just thought the whole concept of the court ruling was a bit ridiculous, but that was before reading that. The way that Divest mentioned it in his original post made me think that it was a recent development, not something that happened over a century ago.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Don't throw those technicalities at him!

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I'm still baffled at how you guys have never had a good sweet tomato in your entire lives.

FELIPE NO