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[-] procrastitron@lemmy.world 57 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

My stubborn position is that all fruits are vegetables.

Anything that comes from a plant (vegetation) is a vegetable.

EDIT: Reading up on the case, they apparently didn’t treat fruits and vegetables as disjoint sets but rather with fruits as a subset of vegetables. So far, so good…

HOWEVER, they also apparently ruled that tomatoes don’t count as a fruit because they aren’t eaten for dessert…

Wow… just… wow.

[-] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 35 points 5 months ago

Fruit is a scientific term. Vegetable is a culinary term.

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 47 points 5 months ago

Fruit is also a culinary term that is not identical to its meaning as a scientific term

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

That's the one the SCOTUS used.

[-] dogsnest@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

As a former worker at a steel plant, I concur.

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

Underrated comment 👏

[-] MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io 15 points 5 months ago

because they aren’t eaten for dessert

This sounds to me like a reasonable way to disqualify something as a culinary fruit.

Folks like to make a big hullabaloo about tomatoes being technically a fruit, but no one gives a second thought about referring to peppers, cucumbers, green beans, eggplant, avocado, pumpkins & other squash, or corn on-the-cob as vegetables even though they are all technically fruit.

And I was being picky there, because beans, peas, grains and nuts are all also technically fruit. Heck, lots of “nuts” like peanuts and cashews aren’t even really nuts.

Keep your taxonomy out of my kitchen:

  • Fruit are sweet.
  • Vegetables are not.
  • Grains make bread.
  • Herbs and spices add a lot of flavor with a little bit. Herbs are the green ones.
  • nuts are. They just are. Don’t think about it too hard.
[-] MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Fruits are edible seed pods. Nuts are inedible seed pods but have edible seeds.

Fruit makes wine.

Grain makes beer

Nuts in the right contexts make nougat, nut paste or babies.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Fruit are sweet.

Counterpoint: Oranges, pineapples

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago

Both of those are sweet and fruit...?

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That's not really a stubborn position. That's definitively true.

All fruits are vegetables; not all vegetables are fruit.

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 20 points 5 months ago

Botanical vs culinary. Different contexts; different definition per context. There is not a problem here.

[-] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 months ago

Vegetable isn't even a botanical definition.

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

What's the deal with the background? Screenshots aren't what they used to be, back in my day the worst that could happen was for the image to turn into a pixelated mess after being re-uploaded 1000 times.

Now I sometimes see images getting tilted by 5%, random words crossed out in yellow, and whatever the fuck happened here.

[-] nifty@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Idk, I stole the meme from somewhere

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

They're also a Native American food that was made famous by Italians, celebrated by the Spanish, honoured by the French, used by the English and turned into Ketchup by the Americans .... another bit of multicultural history of America.

[-] DannyBoy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

It wouldn't be very patriotic of me to be patriotic of a foreign country.

[-] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Watch more reels

Watch again

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago

Vegetables aren’t actually a thing though. Just a bunch of things we grouped because we like eating them.

[-] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

There's no such thing as a fish

[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 points 5 months ago

Yes there is. Taxonomists aren't the only people who give meaning to words

[-] grissino@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

"Taxonomists aren't the only people who give meaning to words"

Eloquently put! You've expressed a feeling that I have had for a while now and couldn't quite put into the appropriate words! Thanks 🙏🏼

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