To-may-to: VEGGIE or FRUIT?

[Darren Dirt]

 http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getc...l=149&invol=304

-and don't ask me how/why I found* this site :rolleyes:










*...okay, it was from a Wiki link about "Tomacco". There, you satisfied!? I have no life.

[Mr. Analog]

 Well, the important thing is that an egg is not a fruit!

[Tonnica]

 Jinkies. I always figured that a tomato despite its vegtable-like food presentation was a fruit because it's very literally a berry. A very large berry, but a berry by defenition nonetheless. Tomatoes are subject to the same ripening phase and assosciated quick spoilage perioid that other berry-type fruits go through. Where a zucchini can be ripe and sit in the grocer's "maturing" the tomato is long since spoiled without cautious storage and handling.

[Bryan]

 Not sweet like a fruit though. Im on the fence, leaning more towards a vegetable.

[Shayne]

 

Not sweet like a fruit though. Im on the fence, leaning more towards a vegetable.

...does that make a lemon a vegetable too?  By definition, its a fruit.  Just like a dolphin is a mammal and not a fish.

[Darren Dirt]

 

Jinkies. I always figured that a tomato despite its vegtable-like food presentation was a fruit because it's very literally a berry. A very large berry, but a berry by defenition nonetheless. Tomatoes are subject to the same ripening phase and assosciated quick spoilage perioid that other berry-type fruits go through. Where a zucchini can be ripe and sit in the grocer's "maturing" the tomato is long since spoiled without cautious storage and handling.

Jinkies as well. (I presume jinkies is like saying "that's daft".)

It is, biologically and botanically, a fruit. But the courts make the lawful "illegal", and the evil "legal", so it's no surprise that they decided that a fruit is actually a veggie simply because most people eat it with the dinner rather than the dessert. :rolleyes:

Ah the Wisdom of Wiki: http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/tomato

[Bryan]

 vegetable!