Excuse me , but a tomato, is not a vegetable

[UndertheOcean]

It is a fruit.

[DS1]

1. goddamn I hate phonetic commas

x(

[RadiationTherapy]

7. Oh! That's, what those, are called. nt

[Xipe Totec]

2. You say tomatose, I say comatose,

:hide:

[suninvited]

5. You say

Ig-nor-ay-mous

I say

Ig-nor-ah-mous

[Xipe Totec]

6. Ig-nor-ah-mo-rous

Are you making fun of my edjumacation?

[suninvited]

8. fresh !

I wasn't speaking of amorousityness.

[Callalily]

3. I myself am living on

the edge. Had a couple tomatoes yesterday, and had a couple of tomatoes today. So there! ;)

[Elidor]

4. This thread, needs more, comma, comma.

[pokerfan]

9. more precisely, a tomato is a berry.

[frickaline]

10. Its both. Depends on if you are a scientist or a cook.

While science may classify the tomato as a fruit, the way a tomato is used in cooking it would be considered a vegetable.

Keep in mind that if you scientifically classify a tomato as a fruit you must also classify cucumbers, squash, green beans and walnuts as fruits by the same science.

[deucemagnet]

11. Fruit or vegetable, I just wish mine were more than little yellow...

...flowers right now! Damned late spring. x(

[meow2u3]

12. The difference between a fruit and a vegetable

Fruits have seeds; vegetables do not. Cucumbers, avocados, tomatoes, even zucchini are fruits, but all are eaten as if they were vegetables because they are not sweet.


Let me coin a new portmanteau word for fruits eaten as vegetables: fregetables.

So, now, a tomato is a fregetable.

[TheManInTheMac]

13. I believe it is defined by the USDA

as a vegetable to reduce tariffs. Otherwise, by definition, it is a fruit.

[AlCzervik]

14. when you're throwing them at opera singers does it really matter? i don't think so.