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[-] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 month ago

If it goes in soup, it's a vegetable. If it goes in Sangria, it's a fruit.

Next question please.

[-] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 month ago
[-] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 month ago

Therefore, chicken and beef is vegetables.

Checkmate, vegans!

[-] Gumus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Soup is just beef tea

[-] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Assuming you like eating chicken, when is it wrong to pair chicken with vegetables? I made a vegetable-mushroom-chicken soup last week and it was delish. Whether chicken is or isn't a vegetable is an academic concern, not a culinary one.

Try putting mushrooms or chicken in the sangria however and you'll be rightfully prosecuted for crimes against humanity.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Hmmm. Since breakfast cereal is demonstrably soup, that makes strawberries, Cheerios, and Reese's Puffs all vegetables. Good to know.

[-] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

Oh, fun! The debate over the culinary vs botanical meaning of fruit intersecting with the debate of culinary vs topological meaning of soup.

Breakfast cereal is soup[topological] but not soup[culinary]. It is therefore not a contradiction for it to be fruit[culinary].

[-] farting_gorilla@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

As some said once, a vanilla soy latte is technically a 3 bean soup

[-] tlmcleod@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Would it be soup or broth? Soup typically has something besides liquid to it afaik

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Great word, topological.

[-] moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub 4 points 1 month ago

So water, salt, cheese, meat, and noodles are all vegetables?

[-] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

Water is debatable, everything else why not. If a recipe is generic enough to call for "vegetables", you wouldn't be wrong to include any of those things.

[-] moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub 2 points 1 month ago

So a roasted chicken is a vegetable?

[-] pitaya@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago

Is water a fruit or a vegetable

[-] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

If it is from a plant and it goes into fruit salad, it's fruit

[-] Vespair@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

As always, science sets us free.

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