• Skwerls@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Vegetable has no meaning other than “part of a plant* we eat”, so basically all fruits are vegetables

    *And in the case of mushrooms, fungi

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      1 year ago

      To add to this, vegetable is a culinary term and not a scientific term. Whereas, fruit can be both. Tomatoes are scientifically a fruit, but generally not from a culinary perspective.

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        1 year ago

        This is precisely it: Tomatoes can be sweet enough to be a fruit, they can be acidic enough to be a fruit, but they’re definitely too umami to be fruit.

        Next thing people are going to insist on, wilfully ignoring the differences in taxonomy, is that peppercorns are fruit. A stone fruit, just like cherries or peaches.