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[-] TxzK@lemmy.zip 77 points 2 years ago

Biologically, tomatoes are fruit. Culinarily, tomatoes are vegetables.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago

Vocally, they're baritones.

[-] variants@possumpat.io 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Ideally they are makeshift weed pipes

[-] 0ops@lemm.ee 19 points 2 years ago

I dunno, even in a culinary sense, tomatoes are way too acidic to lump in with vegetables imo. The textures are totally different from veggies too

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago

Which veggies? Eggplant, zucchini, and potatoes all have very different textures.

The difference is in flavor. Veggies are savory and fruits are sweet.

[-] 0ops@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

First, eggplants and zucchini are fruits too, and both are sweet, just not banana-sweet (in fact, try zucchini bread if you haven't - best shit ever). Second, many veggies are sweet, like carrots, onions (though it's masked until cooked), and ...uh... sweet potatoes. Third, good tomatoes are absolutely sweet, not like candy but especially the little salad tomatoes aren't very far removed from a grape, which I think we agree are a fruit. Then there's olives, that bizarrely savory, dark fruit. They're delicious but I'm pretty sure they're from another planet.

So overall I think, if we're going to go by flavor, then imo acidity is the least ambiguous differentiator. Still not perfect, I'd rather just call it a fruit if it has seeds and isn't a pod. I'll give it to you on texture though

[-] Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 years ago

I don't think vegetable sounds right either. No one crushes up broccoli or carrots to make sauce for pizza and you don't add tomatoes to your roast veggies.

[-] poopsmith@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago

People put carrots in pizza sauce, like Rao's: https://www.raos.com/products/pizza-sauce

And roasted tomatoes are great with some peppers and onions.

[-] 0ops@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago
[-] poopsmith@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Yup, but also a vegetable.

[-] occhineri@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, thanks nature for not adequately distinguishing between fruits and vegetables by cooking techniques!

Sometimes, you can be such a cunt, nature.

[-] Pepsi@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago
[-] Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

I love playing around with recipes so have indeed made broc and carrot sauces, but this is kind of all about what feels right to say. And I think that there's a lot of cases where it feels wrong to describe tomato as a vegetable. Kind of how I'd feel odd calling lettuce a vegetable.

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[-] MrCookieRespect@reddthat.com 49 points 2 years ago

Tomatos are a made up by Italians to sell more "tomato" sauce.

[-] BlueFairyPainter@feddit.de 23 points 2 years ago

I see the image must have been cropped off to the right

[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 24 points 2 years ago

Ones a culinary term, the other is a biology term.

[-] Eagle0600@yiffit.net 8 points 2 years ago

The problem with the culinary term "vegetable" is that, properly, it applies to any edible part of a plant, and improperly, it's basically a useless distinction.

[-] survivalmachine@beehaw.org 23 points 2 years ago

Knowledge is knowing tomato is a fruit.

Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

[-] heatiskillingme@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

This is how I always explain the difference between INT and WIS to RPG newbies. It gets the point across really well.

[-] germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 2 years ago

If I ever see one of you fuckers put a tomato in a fruit salad I will shit your pants

[-] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago

It's called salsa.

[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

prosecutors will be violated.

[-] r_se_random@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Are you going to go shit in their pants?

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

do you know how this meme or bell curves work? should be the dummy saying vegetable, the majority saying fruit, and the genius (on the right...) saying it's a vegetable

[-] BlueFairyPainter@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Guess we just know different people then

[-] Ixoid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Why would the genius say something wrong like that? Tomatoes are fruit - grows on the vine, contains seeds inside it, fruits regularly without destroying the parent plant.

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

shut up nerd!

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[-] AdmiralShat@programming.dev 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Tomatoes are berries, even

[-] rasensprenger@feddit.de 10 points 2 years ago

The effective vibe is much more important than any underlying biology.

Tomatoes are vegetables.

[-] woodgen@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

The left one should say "fruits", while the right one should say "fruit"

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

Errbuddy wanna talk about tomatoes but the real question is, are bananas fruit? Some varietals are sweet and clearly belong in desserts and fruit salads, some are savory and starchy like potatoes, depending on the culinary tradition you come from they're used in both contexts, and they can and should have seeds but they don't due to selective breeding. Tomatoes exist in an ambiguous state, but bananas are somehow both at all times.

[-] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

Bananas are technically berries, which makes them a fruit. I don't think I've ever heard of anyone think of a banana as a non-fruit before

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Plantains are bananas (same species, different varietals) and in many cultures are used in savory contexts

[-] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

Oh yeah, I forgot about those. Funnily enough, here in Spain bananas are plátanos and plantains are bananas

[-] dfc09@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I've always heard it's intelligence that tells us tomatoes are fruit, but wisdom tells to use it like a vegetable in cooking

[-] woobie@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I always heard it as intelligence tells us tomatoes are fruit, wisdom tells us not to use it in a fruit salad.

[-] fkn@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Salsa is a fruit salad.

[-] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago

ahem different models for different circumstances.

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago

"Vegetables" makes no sense.

Tomatoes, grapes, apples, cucumber, pumpkin, eggplant, mushrooms, all fruits.

[-] 0ops@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

I was with you until mushrooms, those ain't even plants

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

We are talking about "fruits" here which isnt even a term used to describe plants. Maybe in english, not in german.

[-] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

mushrooms are not fruits in any sense. Fruiting body is applied colloquially however since spores are not fruits this is also incorrect.

However much like with calling a tomato a fruit, it's perfectly clear to call the penis loo lookin' thing a fruiting body and only derranged pedants are bothered by it.

[-] 0ops@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Fruits are a specific part of the plant, the seed-bearing part (pods and ferns are the exceptions, I guess). Veggies are the rest of the plant. Mushrooms are fungi's and all, don't get me wrong, but they're not plants

[-] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Technically a fruit, taste like a vegetable.

[-] bul@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

I argue anyone who doesn't think tomatoes taste like fruit hasn't had a real tomato yet

[-] Bonsoir@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

All fruits are vegetables, so everyone is right.

[-] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

People who argue that something is a fruit don't understand what a vegetable is

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