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Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.
I am sad to say that, although I've heard of this, I have never had the pleasure of eating such a tomato.
As a native son of Indiana, I have to say that's the thing that breaks pretty much all of my categories. I lived the first twenty years of my life thinking that it qualified nutritionally (ugh, that's another part of this terminology dumpster fire...the food pyramid. shudder) as a vegetable, which it...doesn't really.
Great point. "Tomato smoothie" is already a term that makes me feel a little bit queasy, but adding in the corn...
Beautiful. fɹud͡ʒ.tə.bəl, I think, incidentally.
That seems right to me, the... what is that a lower case sigma?
iirc, thats the sort of... rolling 'zh' sound I was going for...
... though I think maybe we just have a natural dialect difference for how how to pronounce vegetable, as you've got the same vowel sound for the last two syllables?
But anyway, yeah, I think I came up with 'fruigtable' almost 20 years ago, upon first learning how much overlap there is due to all this linguistic silliness... so i choose chaos, and decided to add to it, and now I finally have a relevant time to use the nonsense/compound word, woo!
I only have the most pedestrian understanding of the IPA from a single class in college (which was a long time ago), so I'll admit I just grabbed the IPA off of Wiktionary for "fruit," "vegetable," and "fudge" to bridge between the two. It looks good enough to my eyes to be at least reasonable.