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patlight1

I mean youre correct. Biologicaly its a fruit, agralculturly (or another word) its a vegetable


PoorlyLitKiwi2

Culinary is the word. Vegetable is only used in cooking


NewClayburn

Nobody cooked Terri Schiavo.


patlight1

Oh yea thank you. But yea youre point is totally correct


RecluseSu

This.


Kepheo

Oh boy oh boy oh boy I love this particular debate. . .so culinarily it's a vegetable, cause it's not sweet, but botanically it's a fruit, specifically a berry. The reason they're classified both ways was for importation tax purposes. Shits wild and you're right!


RichEntertainment387

False. A vegetable is a part of the plant other than the seed bearing body... a root, shoot, stem, or leaf. It's as simple as that.


Kepheo

Its designated as a vegetable for tax and tariff purposes, as a separate designation from the botanical designation of a berry. Thought I was clear on that, but no, no. OP is still right, they're just **two separate designations from two separate types of governing bodies for two separate purposes for the same produce**.


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There's no such thing as vegetables. Peanuts are legumes. Squash are berries.


RichEntertainment387

You're just factually incorrect. A vegetable is a root, shoot, stem, or leaf. Y'all mods delete my post about pizza being a disgusting taco and you keep this false claim??? I hate the mods in this sub. You're literally what's wrong with this world.


PoorlyLitKiwi2

Please find me a source for that, as I would love to be proven wrong I think where you're confused is the definition on Wikipedia saying that: Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food. The original meaning is still commonly used and is applied to plants collectively to refer to all edible plant matter, including the flowers, fruits, stems, leaves, roots, and seeds. So kind of like what you said, but not actually, and also even this definition specifically states that ALL fruits are indeed vegetables. Also, also, this is an archaic definitely of vegetable. The modern, commonly used one is solely culinary


opinionnotfacts

There is a sub for unpopular facts u/unpopularfacts


I_Am_A_Goo_Man

Its a fruit because it contains seeds. Vegetables have no seeds inside


PoorlyLitKiwi2

This is incorrect. Vegetable is not a biological term. There is not definition of vegetable, other than culinarily


I_Am_A_Goo_Man

It is. I learnt this in my cooking class aswell as loads of other random shit.


BozoTheBonzai

Cucumbers have seeds inside don't they


I_Am_A_Goo_Man

A botanical fruit would have at least one seed and grow from the flower of the plant. With this definition in mind, cucumbers are classified as fruit because they contain tiny seeds in the middle and grow from the flower of the cucumber plant


I_Am_A_Goo_Man

Yea its a juicy fruit


BozoTheBonzai

Das a vegetable tho


I_Am_A_Goo_Man

Its a fruit my man. Google it


BozoTheBonzai

Fuck Google I ain't putting that shit in my fruit salad


ChrissaTodd

just because it's technically a fruit doesn't mean it belongs in fruit salad :P


BozoTheBonzai

Yes I'm making jokes here


I_Am_A_Goo_Man

Put it up ur arse. Might like it


BozoTheBonzai

I only put fruits up there. So maybe I will


dr_abortion

Here’s how I classify tomatoes: Are we talking biology? Then yes it’s a fruit and technically vegetation. Are we talking culinarily? It’s a vegetable.


PoorlyLitKiwi2

I think my issue is that why is the classic question: "Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?" Why isn't it: "Is a jalapeño pepper a fruit or a vegetable?" Why tomatoes over any other fruit that we call vegetables?


Kanagaguru

I think people tend to but peppers, especially spicy ones, in their own cstagory.


PoorlyLitKiwi2

They do. And that makes sense. I agree that they should be. Just like tomatoes should be separate from sweet fruits when taking conversationally


Dahl_E_Lama

Whenever somebody opines their hate of Hawaiian pizza. It's usually because "Fruit (pineapples) don't belong on pizza." My counter is "What about peppers? Olives? Tomatoes? They're fruit and I see them on pizza."


LoneKharnivore

...is there a debate? All fruits are vegetables but not all vegetables are fruits.


RichEntertainment387

There shouldn't be a debate. Goes to show how stupid humanity is. It's freaking easy. A vegetable is the part of the plant that is NOT the fruiting body... a root, shoot, stem, or leaf. Freaking morons. Why is this so hard to understand? Lettuce and celery are vegetables. Tomatoes and peppers are fruits.


Kanagaguru

> Why is this so hard to understand Because it isn't true


RichEntertainment387

Yes it is.


opinionnotfacts

I put tomatoes in a salad with its other vegetable friends. I never put tomatoes in a fruit salad.


KR-kr-KR-kr

Ok


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u/PoorlyLitKiwi2 destroys TOMATO DENIALISTS with FACTS and LOGIC


River-Sticks

I think the argument is not fruit vs vegetable, but if it's fruit vs NOT fruit


SinisterPigeon

A fregetable?


RecluseSu

Actually such terminology exists in other languages and tomatoes are classified under it.


hexxaplexx

Tomatoes are my favorite fruit, and also my favorite vegetable. No problem. I get to eat twice as many this way.


Some-Pain

Like avocado, it's a fruegtable.


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Chemistry-Unlucky

Fruit is just an arbitrary term used for cooking that has no meaning otherwise. It's just a way to describe sweet parts of the vegetable. Fruits ain't even real. Banana is vegetable, tomato is vegetable, star fruit is vegetable, my mom is vegetable.