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VEGETABLES DO NOT EXIST
A “vegetable” is simply any edible part of a plant. Fruits can therefore be considered a subcategory of vegetables.
If you really want to get into the nitty gritty, an ear of corn is botanically a fruit, since it’s the seed-bearing body of a plant. But nobody in their right mind would consider corn a fruit.
My wife and I like to joke that vegetables aren’t real and all of them are just something else in reality.
You’re correct! “Vegetable” is a culinary term. “Fruit” is both botanical and culinary. The “tomato isn’t a fruit” nonsense comes from people trying to conflate the two; if we called botanical fruits “grunkles” we wouldn’t have this problem.
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The fuck region are you in?
You need to be in a better region.
Don’t we all
Yeah I knew mushrooms were shady shit since when they snuck in with the badgers. Nobody batted an eye back then and look at where we are now.
I always categorized them as a snake
Big Mushroom is taking the slow play, and frankly, it’s impressive
Tomatoes are biologically fruit, but culinary they are a vegetable.
You wouldn’t expect them to put an orange slice on your burger because you asked for some veg, would you? But you’d expect tomatoes.
Vegetables aren’t real. They made up the classification just to sell things that aren’t fruits.
Big Celery just trying to legitimize crunchy water
I could go for some refreshingly crunchy big celery right now
Maybe dipped in some oily legume seed paste that has a name including -nut but isn’t one
Same with nuts. Botanically, not a thing.
johnny is human tho
Now this a QAnon theory I can align with. #finally
Now this a QAnon theory I can align with. #finally
Now this a QAnon theory I can align with. #finally
Fruit has a botanical and a culinary definition.
Vegetable only has a culinary definition.
Trying to decide on what food fits which category purely on the botanical definition of fruit is silly. In many other languages, the botanical and culinary definition even use completely different words. It’s like saying lobster is red meat using a scientific definition of red.
But if we are having fun with this, rhubarb: definitely no fruit, but far too sweet, too often consumed raw or minimally processed, and far too at home in a yoghurt to fit nicely into the group vegetable.
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Rhubarb’s just sour celery
But if we are having fun with this, rhubarb: definitely no fruit, far too sweet to fit nicely into vegetable.
Oh boy, another reason to hate rhubarb.
Also, you want a sweet vegetable? Sugar beet.
raw unprocessed sugar cane is delicious
I’m sorry, who exactly is out here calling mushrooms vegetables??
If it goes in soup, it’s a vegetable. If it goes in Sangria, it’s a fruit.
Next question please.
So water, salt, cheese, meat, and noodles are all vegetables?
Water is debatable, everything else why not. If a recipe is generic enough to call for “vegetables”, you wouldn’t be wrong to include any of those things.
So a roasted chicken is a vegetable?
Hmmm. Since breakfast cereal is demonstrably soup, that makes strawberries, Cheerios, and Reese’s Puffs all vegetables. Good to know.
Oh, fun! The debate over the culinary vs botanical meaning of fruit intersecting with the debate of culinary vs topological meaning of soup.
Breakfast cereal is soup[topological] but not soup[culinary]. It is therefore not a contradiction for it to be fruit[culinary].
As some said once, a vanilla soy latte is technically a 3 bean soup
Great word, topological.
Chicken and beef go in soup.
Therefore, chicken and beef is vegetables.
Checkmate, vegans!
Soup is just beef tea
Assuming you like eating chicken, when is it wrong to pair chicken with vegetables? I made a vegetable-mushroom-chicken soup last week and it was delish. Whether chicken is or isn’t a vegetable is an academic concern, not a culinary one.
Try putting mushrooms or chicken in the sangria however and you’ll be rightfully prosecuted for crimes against humanity.
Is water a fruit or a vegetable
I absolutely call them vegetables. It’s a kitchen term and it absolutely makes sense to categorise them alongside tomatoes, beans, carrots, squash and cabbage. People get too hung up on things only belonging to exactly one category.
Seriously this whole thing is not a problem at all unless you’re somehow not familiar with words having more meaning. It’s a fruit (botanically) and not a fruit (culinary). I don’t understand how we’ve gotten like 40 years of discussion out of it at this point.
Take a piece of paper with 3 squares drawn on it
And hand a person a picture of an apple, tomato, pepper, cucumber, pork cutlet, and mushroom and ask them to put the pictures into the squares and then label each square
Average person will definitely label a box as vegetables and put the mushrooms in it
Well if you tell me to use only three categories and one of them will obviously be “meat”, then I won’t put them with apples.
Apple, tomato, peppers, and cucumbers are all fruits
Mushrooms are mushrooms
Pork is meat
But if you give the average person those it’s much more likely they will make the categories fruits, vegetables, and meat and put mushrooms in the vegetable category
One box labeled “Brown when cooked properly”. Then mushrooms can go in the box with the apples and cutlets.
Box labeled “burnt to a crisp” and put everything in it.
That sign can’t stop me because I can’t cook (let alone properly).
Most everyone.
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We just ignoring the mushrooms are also fruit(ing bodie)s?
I was going to bring it up if no one else did
You mean, we apply plant language to them so they are also like plants? They are closer related to us though…
Intelligence is knowing tomatoes are a fruit
Wisdom is knowing to never add it to a fruit salad
Fruit salads are an abomination anyway. It’s like someone was going to make smoothies and their blender broke. A tomato in a fruit salad doesn’t seem any crazier than some of the other things in those anyway.
I’d argue they’re less of an abomination than the “salad” that requires jello and cottage cheese
Salads with eggs are the worst though, can we agree?
Nope. Eggs are delicious. Swords at dawn?
Tell you what, you bring your worst salad, and I’ll bring mine. I think I have some chicken salad that’s been in the fridge for a few months that the partner forgot about.
Oh no, I recently cleaned out my fridge. You win?
I think the only winning move was not to play. Excuse me while I go throw out a salad and try to keep my lunch down.
In spanish tomatoes are called “hortalizas”, the others are “verduras” apart of “frutas”, fruits, in english only traduced with vegetables and fruits. Maybe because Spain has a better food culture. Mushrooms are something in between plants and animals in a separate genre, some even are actively moving to find food. The US anyway differences only protein, sugar and decoration, tomatoes in bottles from Heinz.
When people say that they are wrong. There are two different definitions for the word “fruit”. They’re homonyms for completely different words. It’s like if i ask you: Which is lighter, a black Mini Cooper, or a white Hummer? Depends on which definition of “lighter” you’re asking about
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