Tomato War Updates

[deoridhe]

In the wake of the Tomato War (which was a blast and you all fucking rule), humor of a secondary sort has presented itself - it he form of outsider comments.

[link]HI, I am not an expert, but my previous knowledge has said that fruits have seeds in them, and veggies do not.
Blessings, LD

[link]Hm... I believe that a botanist would call a tomato a fruit.

A mature ripened ovary containing seeds in angiosperms. May
also include associated floral tube. -source

In fact, Me
rriam-Webster calls it a berry:

1: the usually large rounded typically red or yellow pulpy
berry of a tomato

Tomatoes were categorized as a vegetable by the US government in 1893 for
trade purposes, and later, catsup was classified as a vegetable so it
would serve as such in school lunches.

Tomatoes, one source notes, are "categorized as a fruit but eaten as a
vegetable".

As for the argument about the lack of tomatoes in a fruit salad, guava is
a fruit, but I usually don't find them in such a salad.

Avocados are similarly a fruit, but are also treated as vegetables.[/quote]

O. M. G.

Comments

[fireba11.livejournal.com]

In a world where the (gulp) elected leader of our nation pronounces "nuclear" as "NOOK-you-ler," such an argument comes to me as no surprise.

Avocado's a fruit? Who knew?

[shadowcat]

I still say a tomato is an alien in disguise.

[sarahtheboring.livejournal.com]

That first one is brilliant. Because according to that, cucumbers are a fruit, as are beans / other legumes, corn, and the entire squash family. So, uh. Yeah.

/flashbacktofreshmanyearbotany