@fmf saidWithout being overly pedantic:
The full question is this:
Without being overly scientific and/or overly beholden to the practical approximations of everyday life, what do you believe: is a tomato a vegetable or a fruit?
I'm not so fixated on the tomato; I'm more curious about how long the creative conversationalists of the General Forum can keep this thread going.
As with many other terms, there is colloquial usage and there is technical taxonomy, and they may have a large overlap with a divergent penumbra.
Colloquial usage usually classifies “tomato” with vegetables, on the ground that fruits are held to be sweet, whereas tomatoes are not. However, avocados are not sweet yet commonly held to be fruit.
Botanical taxonomy classifies “tomato” as a berry, along with gooseberry, cranberry, blueberry, aubergine, persimmon, pumpkin, grape, watermelon, cucumber, and others.
“Fruit” also has the very general meaning of the edible product of almost any plant, as in “the fruits of the earth,” which would include grains, nuts, and tubers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_(botany)
As a matter of taste, although both pumpkin pie and blueberry cheesecake make suitable desserts, I wouldn’t be inclined to try ketchup on custard.
@moonbus saidI sincerely hope this does not lay the discussion to rest because the primary objective is to talk about this ad infinitum.
Without being overly pedantic:
As with many other terms, there is colloquial usage and there is technical taxonomy, and they may have a large overlap with a divergent penumbra.
Colloquial usage usually classifies “tomato” with vegetables, on the ground that fruits are held to be sweet, whereas tomatoes are not. However, avocados are not sweet yet commonly held to be fr ...[text shortened]... e and blueberry cheesecake make suitable desserts, I wouldn’t be inclined to try ketchup on custard.
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@fmf saidDivegeester is both.....amazing or wot
The full question is this:
Without being overly scientific and/or overly beholden to the practical approximations of everyday life, what do you believe: is a tomato a vegetable or a fruit?
I'm not so fixated on the tomato; I'm more curious about how long the creative conversationalists of the General Forum can keep this thread going.
