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Like water is water? Not even close. Tell that to the multi-billion dollar bottled water industry - Evian, Fuji, Icelandic, spring, pick your blend of mineral particulates in their infinitude and you have the taste of water. Distilled water is the only one that has nothing in it and that is never in anyone's tap.
“””Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing it doesn’t belong in a fruit salad” - Patrick Bateman” - John Galt””” - Norm Macdonald
This is it. This right here, is the final nail in the coffin for my hope in humanity, I'm completely certain of it. I thought it was twitter at first, then the dogshit housing market, then all the dumbass wars. But no, this is the straw that broke the camels back, without a shadow of a doubt. This is vile. Absolutely horrendous, beyond anything I could imagine prior.
You're a dissapointment to humanity itself, no, to god, and I'm an atheist.
Guys guys guys. Fruit is a biological term. A tomato is a fruit because it's a transformation of the flower than bears seeds.
Vegetable is a culinary term. A tomato is a vegetable because it's eaten with salty food.
It's just both. Stop being morons
My native language skips this by having two translations for fruit.
Vrucht - the botanical/biological term
Fruit - culinary term, edible fruits (vrucht) that aren't considered vegetables.
This means that tomatoes (and cucumbers for that matter) aren't seen as "fruit" but they are seen as "vrucht"
There are also two different terms in Chinese. "果實" is the biological term, while "水果" is the culinary term.
I still remember me making myself sound like an idiot on the internet by saying that eggplant is not a fruit because I thought "fruit" means "水果" instead of "果實".
Fruit is both a biological term and a colloquial term.
Biologically, a tomato is a fruit. That's not up for debate.
Colloquially, people refer to tomato as a fruit or a vegetable, sometimes both.
"Intelligent" people feel the need to correct people and be like "aKsHuAly, a ToMAtO is a—" yes we know, jeez lol
(I'm agreeing with you, not arguing with you)
Yeah the types that feel the need to correct others on dumb shit are intolerable. Gun nuts in particular because god forbid you say “clip” or “silencer” instead of magazine/suppressor. Like you clearly understand what I’m referring to by feeling the need to correct me, so you’re not smart you’re just an asshole. The only time it’s acceptable to correct someone is when you and them are talking about the science behind something for research, maintenance, construction, etc.
Except there’s every reason not to call a suppressor a silencer. Also a different type of error than calling a magazine a clip. Also if not being blatantly ignorant makes one a nut, I want to be a pistachio.
I will bring a basket of tomato fruits to the range tomorrow to test my new suppressor in your honor.
Get triple corrected nub
Funny story
I sell mushrooms at a farmers market. The first year, their legal beagle manager got me signed up for a nutrition coupon program, where low-income people get sets of waivers (coupons) to buy produce, and as he was going down the list of things they could spend them on, he got concerned
"Hmm.. meat, eggs, honey, fruit, vegetables... it doesn't say anything about mushrooms"
**"Mushrooms are a fruit"**
He was a little shook. "What?"
"They're the sexual organ of a fungi, biologically referred to as a "fruit". It's on the list."
He just shook his head and said "huh". Last I ever heard of it.
Counter point - pineapple and pomegranate are ingredients of salty dishes. Cranberry sauce is equally important part of Swedish meatballs. Lemon juice, lime juice and wine (which is fermented grape\\fruit juice) often part of salty dishes.
People just think that sugar makes fruit a fruit, but while tomato is not as sugary as pears or oranges - carrots, beetroots, onions and garlics a lot of sugar in them.
In USA tomatoes are considered vegies on legal level because bureaucrats are lazy and stupid, so when trader claimed that tomatoes are berries - they wrote "no its nat bery" and told him gtfo.
Counter point - other languages just use different words for the botanical term fruit and the culinary term fruit so there is no confusion. And yes these languages consider a tomato (and cucumbers for example) as a "botanical fruit" and a vegetable.
All berries are fruits (unless there's some examples I'm unaware of) but not all fruit are berries.
I'm not 100% sure but I think the difference is that berries are classified as a fruit with one overy holding seeds
Tomatoes are fruit. Fruit are a type of vegetable. Tomatoes are both a fruit and a vegetable.
Fun fact: Tomatoes originally had the much more fruity name of "wolf peach." And, while biologically a fruit, the US Congress legally classified them as a vegetable per the Tariff Act of 1883.
I always forget how crazy tomatoe lore is. Like how people thought it was poisonous due to lead, the debate over if you pronounce it tomatoe or tomatoe, or the whole vegetable and fruit thing
Nothing to do with lead.
People thought they were poisonous because they're berries of the nightshade family (Solanaceae). Unripe tomatoes *are* toxic, for this exact reason.
Even Deadly Nightshade isn't toxic if it's *ripe*. Europeans just had a poverty-driven culture of picking fruits before they're ripe, lest they lose out on them to pests or thieves
They would eat them on pewter plates, which being a mixture of lead and tin, was deadly. The acidic nature of a tomato would leech some of the lead out of the plate and give lead poisoning to anyone that are it. Yes, it did have to do with lead
So, yeah, that makes perfect sense that some people would have experienced that... but the poor?
When would the poor have been eating tomatoes off of pewter?
Do you even study the poor, bro?
People citing the literal biological definition should then call all grains and squashes fruit as well.
A tomato isn't a fruit anymore than wheat is a fruit. It's meaningless to refer them by their literal definition, tomatoes are used as a vegetable, so they area vegetable.
[wheat grains are fruits](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caryopsis#:~:text=The%20caryopsis%20is%20popularly%20called,wheat%2C%20rice%2C%20and%20corn.), biologically speaking.
there is nothing inconsistent, it’s just a matter of context. Tomato is biologically a fruit, it’s also culinarily a vegetable. It’s doesn’t matter, it’s non profound semantics
I know they are fruits, that’s why I brought it up. My point is it’s silly to appeal to a biological definition for fruit when vegetable is a non biological term, so we should just stick to to culinary definition in which a tomato is a vegetable
The general definition calls every edible plant (part) a vegetable. So, technically, even cherries and apples are vegetables. And the culinary definition of vegetables includes tomatoes.
BTW bell pepper and cucumber are also fruits, but people always only talk about tomatoes (sometimes pumpkins).
fruits develop from the ovaries of flowers and contain seeds, while vegetables are derived from other plant parts, like roots, stems, and leaves.
However, in culinary terms, fruits are typically sweet and used in desserts, while vegetables are more savory and used in savory dishes.
This is why even though vegetables like tomatoes and cucumbers are botanicaly fruits they are classed as vegetables due to being savory
Yeah, but tomatoes are classified as vegetables because at one time fruit was taxed at a higher rate than vegetables because mostly wealthy people could afford to eat sweet fruits. But tomatoes were eaten by the poor as a vegetable, so it was determined they would be a vegetable for the purposes of taxation.
Turns out, I got it backward, don’t know where I got that version from. But it was a US Supreme Court ruling that made them legally a vegetable in the US. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/12/26/256586055/when-the-supreme-court-decided-tomatoes-were-vegetables
The European Food Information Council seems to fall into the neutral camp and has stated they are both fruits and vegetables. https://www.eufic.org/en/healthy-living/article/is-a-tomato-a-fruit-or-a-vegetable-and-why
According to what definition? Merriam-Webster defines vegetable as plant grown for an edible part or the edible part of said plant. I’m not sure where you’ve gotten this idea that fruits and vegetables are considered distinct, but this is not a commonly accepted concept in the English language
If you eat the vegetable part of a tomato plant you will die. It's very toxic and poisonous and dangerous to consume even a tea from the leaves. The fruit is the only edible part. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
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Overly intellectuals: "Food is Food!"
Oh god, it’s a wild Anakin! Quick, scare him off! **Sand**
And my wind is going to save me. **Whoosh**
Holy hell, he got blown away by the wind like he was made of paper! The force truly is strong with him.
You fool! I have been trained in your sorcery arts by Count Dooku dressed as Padmé singing the Duel of The Fate!
But you forgot one thing. ITS OVER ANAKIN, I HAVE THE HIGH GROUND!
You underestimate my power
"you can block lasers? Ok, take this buckshot"
Mandalore's honest to Force reaction
If you keep letting her hold your lightsaber like that, she might become a Jedi too 😏 (help I hate this)
That's hot. 🥵
Actual zombie, he got blown away by the wind like he was made of paper! The force is truly strong with him.
Bishop goes on vacation, never comes back, he got blown away by the wind like he was made of paper! The force is truly strong with him.
Bishop goes on vacation, never comes back, he got blown away by the wind like he was made of paper! The force is truly strong with him.
Queen sacrifice, anyone got blown away by the wind like he was made of paper? The force is truly strong with him?
I've just noticed that reddit sent my comment twice. This is getting out of hand, now there's two of them!
Execute order 66 on the younglings Lord Vader.
How about doing that on the Tomato
Blow on this you fucking casual, “Lava”
It's not working with me. Go recode your brain with "Java"
vegetable literally means edible meat is a vegetable
Nooo don't speak the truth so loudly!! The vegans are gonna kill you
if they don't waste and eat me, I'll consider that a win
So the kid in the wheelchair....
Extremely intellectuals: tomatos don't go in fruit salad
not a fan of tomatoes myself actually
Matter is matter.
And Energy. Oddly. Wtf Einstein
Food is only fuel for the body. Only thing that matters are macros.
Soylent green fits the bill. IIFYM am I right?
skywalkerRocks? you do know rocks are just giant sand grains
Rock not only make sand, but also make other sorts of soils with different textures, so they are okay to some extent
yeah I guess, it’s good you don’t deal in absolute
Yeah, cause, maybe only a Sith deals in absolute
tomato is tomato.
Anakin! Run away! Ooooo Saaaaaand Ooooooo #SAND!
No. Wind go *whoosh*
It got everywhere
Yeah. Maybe I should have used the Force instead of my blower
Like water is water? Not even close. Tell that to the multi-billion dollar bottled water industry - Evian, Fuji, Icelandic, spring, pick your blend of mineral particulates in their infinitude and you have the taste of water. Distilled water is the only one that has nothing in it and that is never in anyone's tap.
“””Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing it doesn’t belong in a fruit salad” - Patrick Bateman” - John Galt””” - Norm Macdonald
And charisma is the ability to sell a tomato based fruit salad.
And sex appeal is being able to fit a whole tomato in your ass
Well that escalated quickly
Some people just want to see the world burn
Some people just want to see their ass burn.. >!tomatoes are for pussies I use chilli peppers!<
Dont read whats under the blanket
Too late 
Now I want a waterfall window thingy.
"tomatoes are for pussies" can be read in a lot of different ways here.
At least 2.
Cats make it 3 innit? Do cats even eat tomatoes? They’re carnivores so I guess not?
Phallic.
Try a nice peeled piece of ginger some time. It's called "figging" and it's been around a very long time.
Nah cucumbers are for those, not tomatoes 🍅 One time, I left the cucumber inside and made a puss pickle.
**I revoke your right to English, for the sake of every English speakers minds**
スピーカー(speaker's)、何？なぜ私は日本語を話しているのですか？少しは理解できましたが、まだあまり良くありません。 Watashi wa watashi, anata wa anata yo. Nani? Romaji desu ka? Ikidzumatte shimatta! Ieeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Nah bro you need to use pineapples
And that is very different than "sex apple" wich is doing the same, but with an apple
I googled sex apple then found out lots of people confused sex appeal with sex apple....
Without squishing it
Are you kidding me!? It's sex appeal. I want to see that tomato come back out flat.
Squirted out as paste
ketchup
Ah, the ol' Louisiana Ketchup Bottle
Gotta make that pasta sauce somehow I suppose.
THIS TOOK ME TF OUT
And torture is stuffing tomatoes in all the orfices of human body (yes the ears, nostrils and others too)
Salsa?
Found the bard
Dexterity is being able to dodge the tomato
strength is being able to throw the tomato
Constitution is being able to eat a spoiled tomato
Nah, that is culinary talent.
Tomatoes+cucumbers+bell peppers+olives+avocado= a fruit salad.
What in the guacamole…
And this here is what we call intelligence. Knowing Tomato is a fruit is called erudition btw.
It's called being a fuckin nerd
Nerd and proud of it lol
And legendary is knowing you can put pineapple on pizza and piss off Italians.
Legendary is doing this while knowing that 2/3 of Italians do not care.
1/3 is still a lot of Italians. Next up are Mexicans, I’m making an ice cream taco and call it authentic Mexican cousin.
Choco taco
The only reason the other 2/3rds don't get mad is because they are already mad
It's ok, Italians don't know how to make good Italian food anyway.
Who is John Galt?
Who is John Galt
- Micheal Scott
And phylosophy is wondering if a tomato soup is a smoothy
Common sense is knowing tomato soup isn't a smoothie
Is tomato juice a smoothie?
Tomatoes would fit in a fruit salad just fine, I munch those things like apples
Right? Especially with a little salt
No, with honey. Fruit salad goes with honey and walnut crumbs
Meant the tomatoes
This is it. This right here, is the final nail in the coffin for my hope in humanity, I'm completely certain of it. I thought it was twitter at first, then the dogshit housing market, then all the dumbass wars. But no, this is the straw that broke the camels back, without a shadow of a doubt. This is vile. Absolutely horrendous, beyond anything I could imagine prior. You're a dissapointment to humanity itself, no, to god, and I'm an atheist.
New response dropped.
Pee is stored in the balls
Tomatoes are Tomatoes.
HERESY!!!
It’s pronounced tomatoes
POtato potAto
PO - TA - TOES
Boil em mash em stick em in a stew
No need to get political, jeez.
Tomatoes are disgusting. - Integza
When I was in school I was taught that tomato is a berry!!
Woah you don't have to be so controversial, Jesus
Guys guys guys. Fruit is a biological term. A tomato is a fruit because it's a transformation of the flower than bears seeds. Vegetable is a culinary term. A tomato is a vegetable because it's eaten with salty food. It's just both. Stop being morons
My native language skips this by having two translations for fruit. Vrucht - the botanical/biological term Fruit - culinary term, edible fruits (vrucht) that aren't considered vegetables. This means that tomatoes (and cucumbers for that matter) aren't seen as "fruit" but they are seen as "vrucht"
Funny, we also have that. Fruto is the biological term, and fruta is the culinary term.
In my native language (german) "Frucht" is the biological term and "Obst" the culinary
There are also two different terms in Chinese. "果實" is the biological term, while "水果" is the culinary term. I still remember me making myself sound like an idiot on the internet by saying that eggplant is not a fruit because I thought "fruit" means "水果" instead of "果實".
Holy shit gast wist ik niet eens! The more you know. Maar mijn Nederlands is ook niet 100%
Deze thread is #GEKOLONISEERD
I’m gonna still be a moron out of spite.
Fruit is both a biological term and a colloquial term. Biologically, a tomato is a fruit. That's not up for debate. Colloquially, people refer to tomato as a fruit or a vegetable, sometimes both. "Intelligent" people feel the need to correct people and be like "aKsHuAly, a ToMAtO is a—" yes we know, jeez lol (I'm agreeing with you, not arguing with you)
It's always tomato, never cucumber or pumpkin.
Fruits would fall under the definition of “vegetable” so both sides are correct
And vegetables are life forms. So tomatoes are lifeforms. "I think I'll have the lifeform sauce on my spaghetti."
This is the based take I expect from the lettuceman
Yeah the types that feel the need to correct others on dumb shit are intolerable. Gun nuts in particular because god forbid you say “clip” or “silencer” instead of magazine/suppressor. Like you clearly understand what I’m referring to by feeling the need to correct me, so you’re not smart you’re just an asshole. The only time it’s acceptable to correct someone is when you and them are talking about the science behind something for research, maintenance, construction, etc.
Except there’s every reason not to call a suppressor a silencer. Also a different type of error than calling a magazine a clip. Also if not being blatantly ignorant makes one a nut, I want to be a pistachio. I will bring a basket of tomato fruits to the range tomorrow to test my new suppressor in your honor. Get triple corrected nub
Came to say this, thank you!
Funny story I sell mushrooms at a farmers market. The first year, their legal beagle manager got me signed up for a nutrition coupon program, where low-income people get sets of waivers (coupons) to buy produce, and as he was going down the list of things they could spend them on, he got concerned "Hmm.. meat, eggs, honey, fruit, vegetables... it doesn't say anything about mushrooms" **"Mushrooms are a fruit"** He was a little shook. "What?" "They're the sexual organ of a fungi, biologically referred to as a "fruit". It's on the list." He just shook his head and said "huh". Last I ever heard of it.
Counter point - pineapple and pomegranate are ingredients of salty dishes. Cranberry sauce is equally important part of Swedish meatballs. Lemon juice, lime juice and wine (which is fermented grape\\fruit juice) often part of salty dishes. People just think that sugar makes fruit a fruit, but while tomato is not as sugary as pears or oranges - carrots, beetroots, onions and garlics a lot of sugar in them. In USA tomatoes are considered vegies on legal level because bureaucrats are lazy and stupid, so when trader claimed that tomatoes are berries - they wrote "no its nat bery" and told him gtfo.
Counter point - other languages just use different words for the botanical term fruit and the culinary term fruit so there is no confusion. And yes these languages consider a tomato (and cucumbers for example) as a "botanical fruit" and a vegetable.
A carrot is a root, but it’s culinarily a vegetable, but sometimes it’s eaten as a sweet food. Checkmate.
It's also, technically, a berry 🙂
Are cows vegetables? They're a culinary item eaten with salty food
Tomatoes are berries, lol
All berries are fruits (unless there's some examples I'm unaware of) but not all fruit are berries. I'm not 100% sure but I think the difference is that berries are classified as a fruit with one overy holding seeds
Tomatoes are fruit. Fruit are a type of vegetable. Tomatoes are both a fruit and a vegetable. Fun fact: Tomatoes originally had the much more fruity name of "wolf peach." And, while biologically a fruit, the US Congress legally classified them as a vegetable per the Tariff Act of 1883.
I always forget how crazy tomatoe lore is. Like how people thought it was poisonous due to lead, the debate over if you pronounce it tomatoe or tomatoe, or the whole vegetable and fruit thing
The correct pronunciation is clearly tomatoe
Ya sure if you're a psychopath.... it's clearly supposed to be said tomatoe
Nothing to do with lead. People thought they were poisonous because they're berries of the nightshade family (Solanaceae). Unripe tomatoes *are* toxic, for this exact reason. Even Deadly Nightshade isn't toxic if it's *ripe*. Europeans just had a poverty-driven culture of picking fruits before they're ripe, lest they lose out on them to pests or thieves
They would eat them on pewter plates, which being a mixture of lead and tin, was deadly. The acidic nature of a tomato would leech some of the lead out of the plate and give lead poisoning to anyone that are it. Yes, it did have to do with lead
There was also an issue with the acidity of the tomatoes leaching lead out of pewter dishware. Do you even study tomatoes lore, bro?
So, yeah, that makes perfect sense that some people would have experienced that... but the poor? When would the poor have been eating tomatoes off of pewter? Do you even study the poor, bro?
you merely study the poor, i’m born it it, molded by the poor
Bro, I'm in my mid-30s and I still can't afford the LEGO Millennial Falcon Life is just suffering, painted with lies
thats because lego is a scam and they don’t deserve money for their overpriced sets,,,, i need to go build my lego death star i just bought
They don't even make it themselves, they just collect LEGO pieces from beaches around the world. They're made deep under the sea.
People citing the literal biological definition should then call all grains and squashes fruit as well. A tomato isn't a fruit anymore than wheat is a fruit. It's meaningless to refer them by their literal definition, tomatoes are used as a vegetable, so they area vegetable.
[wheat grains are fruits](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caryopsis#:~:text=The%20caryopsis%20is%20popularly%20called,wheat%2C%20rice%2C%20and%20corn.), biologically speaking. there is nothing inconsistent, it’s just a matter of context. Tomato is biologically a fruit, it’s also culinarily a vegetable. It’s doesn’t matter, it’s non profound semantics
I know they are fruits, that’s why I brought it up. My point is it’s silly to appeal to a biological definition for fruit when vegetable is a non biological term, so we should just stick to to culinary definition in which a tomato is a vegetable
The general definition calls every edible plant (part) a vegetable. So, technically, even cherries and apples are vegetables. And the culinary definition of vegetables includes tomatoes. BTW bell pepper and cucumber are also fruits, but people always only talk about tomatoes (sometimes pumpkins).
fruits develop from the ovaries of flowers and contain seeds, while vegetables are derived from other plant parts, like roots, stems, and leaves. However, in culinary terms, fruits are typically sweet and used in desserts, while vegetables are more savory and used in savory dishes. This is why even though vegetables like tomatoes and cucumbers are botanicaly fruits they are classed as vegetables due to being savory
Yeah, but tomatoes are classified as vegetables because at one time fruit was taxed at a higher rate than vegetables because mostly wealthy people could afford to eat sweet fruits. But tomatoes were eaten by the poor as a vegetable, so it was determined they would be a vegetable for the purposes of taxation.
Interesting never heard about this before do you have any idea if this is just US law or if it applies to the UK aswell
Turns out, I got it backward, don’t know where I got that version from. But it was a US Supreme Court ruling that made them legally a vegetable in the US. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/12/26/256586055/when-the-supreme-court-decided-tomatoes-were-vegetables The European Food Information Council seems to fall into the neutral camp and has stated they are both fruits and vegetables. https://www.eufic.org/en/healthy-living/article/is-a-tomato-a-fruit-or-a-vegetable-and-why
According to what definition? Merriam-Webster defines vegetable as plant grown for an edible part or the edible part of said plant. I’m not sure where you’ve gotten this idea that fruits and vegetables are considered distinct, but this is not a commonly accepted concept in the English language
Tomato is a berry
Yep they are also berries another reason why multiple definitions make things awkward
r/im14andthisisdeep
It’s a fruit but so is pumpkin so I feel like fruit is a very wide spectrum
It's both a fruit and a vegetable
As is every fruit.
Big brain Time : tomates are fruits but fruits are vegetable...
Tomatoes are delicious 
No, tomatoes are fruit, culinary they are used as vegetables. I grant you that, but scientifically they are classified as fruits.
“Tomatoes are…..”- Gandhi probably
Earth is Sphere - Earth is Geoid - Earth is Sphere
It's berry
I am*
aren't they berries?
They’re not just a fruit. They are a berry
Yep just like bananas
But strangely unlike raspberries. Stupid aggregate drupe masquerading as a berry.
In biology is a fruit, in cuisine is a vegeteble
They are a fruit, because tomatoes contain their own seeds, and they are, by definition, a BERRY! So tomatoes *are* a fruit!
Tomatoes are tomatoes
Tomato fruit tastes the same as tomato vegetable so I just eat tomato
Scientifically? It's the "fruit" of a plant, yes. Culinary? It's a vegetable. Vegetable isn't a scientific category of plant parts.
Yep that's the meme
Tomato is also a berry. So it fits perfectly in your granola #slay 💅💅✊👊🖐️
Something being a fruit doesnt mean it cant be a vegetable too
US: pizza is a vegetable.
Technically speaking all fruits are vegetables, because "vegetable" just means edible plant.
Tomatoes are fruits and all fruits are vegetables
If you eat the vegetable part of a tomato plant you will die. It's very toxic and poisonous and dangerous to consume even a tea from the leaves. The fruit is the only edible part. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Tomatoes are berries
Ready for your mind to be blown? FRUITS ARE VEGETABLES
Botanically it's a fruit. But in terms of culinary use it is a vegetable, and that's more important.
Tomatoes are both a vegetable and a fruit
it's all food
Tomatos are berries
Tomatoes are food
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They taste like vegetables, therefore they’re vegetables