Cucumbers are melons. But that has me questioning if melons are fruit and I don't want to google it, I just want to be angry.

I've had "vegetable" salads with apples, pears, grapes, nectarines (not all together lol), a bit of sweet-tartness works really well, especially with a vinaigrette type dressing.

Tomatoes are a vegetable (fite me bro). They're botanically a fruit, but they're high in acid and don't play well with sweet fruits - Avocado is a good other example that goes terribly with sweet fruits especially citrus.

That said - avocado salad (aka guacamole) is amazing and tomato salad ditto - whether just tomatoes with salt or caprese.

It's not that tomatoes can't be used in fruit salad it's that they pair terribly with Honeydew, Grapefruit, Orange, Grapes, and Cantelope.

Several years ago my wife grew over a dozen styles of heirloom tomatoes. There were several that I think would have worked in a fruit salad, particularly with watermelon and some basil.

Caprese is basically a fruit salad if you think about it.

Cucumbers, tomatoes, avocadoes, sweet peppers and olives are all culinary vegetables that are botanical fruits that can be made into salads.

Avocados and peppers to make guacamole 😋

Cucumbers, squash, peppers, avocados.

Wow this is a good question. What about raisins?

Had a salad made from a mix of vegetables and tropical fruit, on La Gomera once, best salad I ever had in my life.

mr wizard told me that theyre a fruit on the vine, but a vegetable on your plate

i just learned that humans suck at taxonomy

Greek Salad is mostly fruit.

Tomatoes come in two varieties:

• Tomatoes you can slice without making a goopy mess. These tomatoes have no flavor, but have the benefit of having a physical shape
• Tomatoes that turn into a goopy mess when you cut them. These tomatoes have flavor, but are only suitable for sauces