Do olives count as a vegetable?

[yvr girl]

If not, I may need to add to my dinner menu.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. They aren't animals or minerals, so I suppose they have to be vegetables.

[yvr girl]

4. works for me n/t

[Chan790]

2. Olives are a fruit.

I shit you not.

[yvr girl]

3. So they're healthy then

:wink:

[XemaSab]

7. A drupe, even

You're doing yourself a BIG favor with the drupes.

[underpants]

18. the means of reproduction (the seed) is inside

hold it ...wait.. is that a mammal

Shit! the Greeks had this thing planned from the get-go!!

[Swede]

5. Only if you're on the martini diet.

[kentauros]

6. I'm not a botanist

but if I remember the fight/argument about tomatoes correctly, it has to do with where the seeds are. If they are inside of the edible portion, then it's a fruit. If they are in the flowering part of the plant, then it's a vegetable. There's still plenty of "gray area" even in this, too.

Botanic fruit and culinary fruit
Is it a fruit or a vegetable?

[Tom Kitten]

8. No

Olives are multi-personality stick figured women who enjoy stringing along sailors who have been away at sea far too long...

[billyskank]

9. I thought they were fruits.

:hi:

:hug:

[arcadian]

10. Please don't tell me they are green olives.

I'll gag if you tell me they are green olives.

[Tom Kitten]

11. even if they're stuffed with garlic cheese?

bottled and marinated in age old brine, topped with a bit of pimento, marked with an expiration date 0f 2005, and offered at a discount?

[Shell Beau]

16. Might as well top them off with a fresh pile of poo!!

Olives are NASTY no matter what!

[Generic Brad]

12. Don't they grow in an "olive garden" or something?

[Shell Beau]

13. I believe they are a fruit. They do grow on a tree.

[DarkTirade]

14. Technically they're a fruit.

Personally I just think they're icky. :P

[Shell Beau]

15. Icky doesn't cover it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4548047

And that is from 2006!!!

[DarkTirade]

17. Aw man, I can't recommend old threads...

:P

[Shell Beau]

21. Where is kick-ass-bob when you need him?

He SO has my back in the nasty olive catergory.

[Jamastiene]

19. I think olives are...stuff...or someting like that.

I mean, you put them on stuff and in stuff and you stuff them sometimes. I think they go in the stuff category. :P

[quakerboy]

20. Yes. They are vegitable

They are also a fruit. So its doubly healthy

[old mark]

22. Olives are fruit.

They are very high in sodium, but contain good and varied nutrition.

The sodium is due to the way olives are processed.

mark

[Eurobabe]

23. I love green olives, stuffed with almonds

and marinated in herbs and garlic. Yummy. We get some of the best ones here at the markets on Fridays, from the Italians and the Turkish folks. :D

I never really gave it much thought as to whether they were a veg or fruit until I read your question.

http://www.thefruitpages.com/olives.shtml

[applegrove]

24. Since they grow on a tree are they not fruit? Same difference I guess.

[BrotherBuzz]

25. Vegetables are grown in gardens, and that's how Olive Garden got its name

[begin_within]

26. Well, if Ketchup is, why not.