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Vegetables aren’t real. They made up the classification just to sell things that aren’t fruits.
Big Celery just trying to legitimize crunchy water
Same with nuts. Botanically, not a thing.
johnny is human tho
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Fruit has a botanical and a culinary definition.
Vegetable only has a culinary definition.
Trying to decide on what food fits which category purely on the botanical definition of fruit is silly. In many other languages, the botanical and culinary definition even use completely different words. It’s like saying lobster is red meat using a scientific definition of red.
But if we are having fun with this, rhubarb: definitely no fruit, but far too sweet, too often consumed raw or minimally processed, and far too at home in a yoghurt to fit nicely into the group vegetable.
Rhubarb’s just sour celery
I do love sour celery mush on my pancakes.
But if we are having fun with this, rhubarb: definitely no fruit, far too sweet to fit nicely into vegetable.
Oh boy, another reason to hate rhubarb.
Also, you want a sweet vegetable? Sugar beet.
raw unprocessed sugar cane is delicious
Well vegetable used to be used sometimes to mean “plant”.
Most people don’t really understand how words work.
Vegetation. It’s right there in the root lol you’re 100% correct with people not getting how words work
it becomes somewhat interesting when fruit is differently taxed then vegetables.
As was the case in a Supreme Court Ruling:
Having both definition of the same word that can be confused with each other is also silly, the culinary definition should find a new word.
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VEGETABLES DO NOT EXIST
We just ignoring the mushrooms are also fruit(ing bodie)s?
I was going to bring it up if no one else did
I have a simple flowchart to determine what is or isn’t a veggie:
> Can I eat it? -> Yes -> Does it come from an animal? -> No = Vegetable
Sand has a lot of minerals in it. Probably the healthiest veggie of them all!
That’s why they call you the bread man.
I mostly agree, but there’s a few holes in that flowchart:
My favorite vegetables are salt and ice.
Rocks are vegetables nodnod
Gushers are vegetables, got it.
Behold a vegetable
Ahh Diogenes the greatest philosopher
I also add: Does it taste good?
I do this because of cranberries. I do not eat anything that you can make candles or soap from…
There certainly are feelings associated with the fact that we can analyze the DNA of rots
Intelligence is knowing tomatoes are a fruit
Wisdom is knowing to never add it to a fruit salad
fucking fucking
Tomatoes are biologically fruit, but culinarily they are a vegetable.
You wouldn’t expect them to put an orange slice on your burger because you asked for some veg, would you? But you’d expect tomatoes, tomatoes are veg outside of any scientific context. Language is fickle. Life is complicated. Reality defies categorization.
Mushrooms are detachable fungal penises that jizz into the wind.
What an inspiration to us all
That’s cool. I like that I’m sucking off cooked rudimentary peni.
As you should.
I had always learned if it has seeds (in nature) then it was a fruit, otherwise it was a vegetable or something else
The definition strictly is “fruiting body”, that their flower head goes through a process of becoming a fruiting body
if it has seeds (in nature) then it was a fruit, otherwise it was a vegetable
Many vegetables have seeds.
Pumpkins are already in the example, but think peppers, legumesI would still consider those fruits tbh, but yea they do draw the line
The thing is fruit/vegetable is not a category in botany. Fruit exists, and it kinda has that definition, that it carries seeds, but that doesn’t serve to distinguish it from vegetables.
Fruit/vegetable is a culinary distinction, rather than a scientific one.
And this is the whole point of the controversy: The same word can have multiple meanings in different contexts and some people have trouble with that concept.
It’s the difference between the culinary use of the word and the biological use of the word. I thought we already figured that out?
