Join the campaign! Tomatoes are veg.

[Jelly]

www.tomatoes-are-vegetables-too.piczo.com

 

Please.  ;D

 

The reasons are on there. You know the truth, in your heart; you just don't see it yet.

[HotW Moiraine]

www.tomatoes-are-vegetables-too.piczo.com

 

Please.  ;D

 

The reasons are on there. You know the truth, in your heart; you just don't see it yet.

 

 

You, my friend, are an idiot.

[Guest Far Dareis Mai]

Can I be one of those people who sits on the fence until the winner is clearly seen, and then toss my vote in on the winning side? It makes life just so much more convenient... ;)

[Twitchy]

Jelly.

I'm.

Going.

To.

Kill.

You.

 

[Shendare]

*laugh*

 

*sticks a "Twitch is a vegetable" pin on a tomato*

[HotW Moiraine]

Can I be one of those people who sits on the fence until the winner is clearly seen, and then toss my vote in on the winning side? It makes life just so much more convenient... ;)

 

As long as you don't vote for Hillary.

[Jelly]

Come on! Sign it!

And no, Moir, I am not an idiot. A tomato is used as a vegetable, therefore it IS one.

[Dunbar]

Everyone knows tomatoes are meat

 

and meat is murder!

 

: p

[Shendare]

Juicy, gooey tomato guts! *pops a ketchup packet*

[Pukah]

Veggies are a lie.  There is no formal classification of a vegetable. they don't exist.

 

But tomatoes are vile bastards full of everything wrong in this world.  So I'm totally fine pretending they don't exist.

[Master Blade X]

You are wrong my retarded freind Jelly. Just because a tomato does not have an ice cream of its own and that it is used on salads does not mean it is a veggie.

 

Grapes dont have an ice cream, and they are used in salads. Does that make the grape a veggie?

[Jelly]

Oh BLEEP off if you're going to call me names. I've been through enough about this already, believe me.

[Shendare]

*chuckle* Some people do get rather worked up about the little tomato.

 

Here's the situation... there are two classifications for the tomato: botanical, and culinary.

 

Per the scientific botanical definition of fruit, a tomato is one: "the ripened ovary of a flower together with any accessory parts associated with it", (CRC Dictionary of Agricultural Sciences) [ Link ]

 

There is no scientific botanical definition of "vegetable". There is, however, a culinary (having to do with cooking) definition: any plant whose fruit, seeds, roots, tubers, bulbs, stems, leaves, or flower parts are used as food, as the tomato, bean, beet, potato, onion, asparagus, spinach, or cauliflower (Dictionary.com) [ Link ]. The etymology noted about halfway down the entry there notes its origin as "1582, originally any plant, from vegetable (adj.); specific sense of "plant cultivated for food, edible herb or root" is first recorded 1767."

 

Note that the definition of vegetable also covers fruits! They are not mutually exclusive! The Wikipedia entry for vegetable [ Link ] describes the issue well from the start:

 

Vegetable generally refers to an edible part of a plant. The definition is traditional rather than scientific and is somewhat arbitrary and subjective. All parts of herbaceous plants eaten as food by humans, whole or in part, are normally considered vegetables. Mushrooms, though belonging to the biological kingdom Fungi, are also commonly considered vegetables. In general, vegetables are thought of as being savory, and not sweet, although there are many exceptions. Nuts, grains, herbs, spices and culinary fruits are normally not considered vegetables.

 

Since "vegetable" is not a botanical term, there is no contradiction in referring to a plant part as a fruit while also being considered a vegetable. Given this general rule of thumb, vegetables can also include leaves (lettuce), stems (asparagus), roots (carrots), flowers (broccoli), bulbs (garlic), seeds (peas and beans) and botanical fruits such as cucumbers, squash, pumpkins, and capsicums (bell peppers). Botanically, fruits are reproductive organs (ripened ovaries containing one or many seeds), while vegetables are vegetative organs which sustain the plant.

 

The question "is it a fruit, or is it a vegetable?" has even found its way into the United States Supreme Court, which ruled unanimously in Nix v. Hedden, 1893, that a tomato is a vegetable for the purposes of 1883 Tariff Act, although botanically, a tomato is a fruit.

 

Got it now? Scientifically, it's a fruit, because scientifically, there is no such thing as a vegetable!

 

However, traditionally, and culinarily, if it's sweet, it's a fruit, and if it's not sweet, it's a vegetable.

 

Most accurate assessment: it's both, because both terms are far too general and widely defined to be mutually exclusive.

[Dunbar]

I like cheese

[Shendare]

D'accord, cheese is awesome. String cheese, cheese on pizza, cheese and crackers, Cheetos, cheesy baked potatoes, cheesy fries, cheese omelette, potatoes au gratin, toast and cheese, just about anything Mexican with lots of cheese...

[Pukah]

tomato is bad, cheese is good.

[Master Blade X]

See I told you it was a fruit.  :P

[Jelly]

And I told you it was a vegetable

[asrid]

TOMATOES!!!!!

 

*begins going crazy and throws tomatos at every one...*

 

thats the only use for them,,,, Gack *shivers at the torture of... NM

[Jelly]

NM?

[asrid]

NEVERMIND!!

 

*cries at the memoreis*

[Jelly]

Oh..ok... :D

*Hands a tissue*

[asrid]

*Pointedly blows nose on tissue*

 

thank you

 

*gives tissue back to jelly*

 

[Jelly]

*Gingerly takes tissue*

*Wonders what to do with it*

*Grins and drops it on someone's head*

[Master Blade X]

*Gives asrid more tomatos*

 

Oh and by the way they are still fruit.

 

*Runs as fast as he can so the only target to hit is Jelly*