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Tomatoes: Fruit or Vegetable?

Tomatoes: Fruit or Vegetable?

  • Fruit

    Votes: 58 73.4%

  • Vegetable

    Votes: 19 24.1%

  • Don't know: Don't care

    Votes: 2 2.5%
  • Total voters
    79
Both

Botanically, a fruit. Culinarily, a vegetable.

Expanding. A tomato is the fruit of the tomato plant, but is used as a vegetable in cooking.

Note that vegetable has no botanical meaning, it refers only to edible parts of plants.
 
swiftaw said:
Both

Botanically, a fruit. Culinarily, a vegetable.
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swiftaw gets the prize

Wikipedia said:
Botanically, a tomato is the ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant: therefore it is a fruit or, more precisely, a berry. However, the tomato is not as sweet as those foodstuffs usually called fruits and, from a culinary standpoint, it is typically served as part of a salad or main course of a meal, as are vegetables, rather than at dessert in the case of most fruits. As noted above, the term "vegetable" has no botanical meaning and is purely a culinary term.
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Woof, Woof - Dawg
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Officially, its a fruit, though treated as a veggy. Any fruit of a plant qualifies as such. Squash is the fruit of it's plant, but is considered a veggy.


So, it seems to be subjective.
 
The reason I ask is because I love tomatoes. I love almost all vegetables, but hate almost all fruits. I don't like sugar. To me a tomato is a vegetable, although technically classified as a fruit, but I was never one for classifications.
 
It is knowledge that tells us a tomato is a fruit.
It is wisdom that tells us not to put it in a fruit salad.
 
MacDawg said:
Cherry, grape... who can tell, it was a long time ago... all I know is I spit it out and wiped my tongue on a napkin!...
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So essentially you're saying it's a long time since you had your cherry, and the first time you didn't swallow:eek:
 
Neither - tomatoes are actually ancient life forms from a distant planet which crash landed on Earth many millennia ago. And humans, being the savages that we are, purposely engage in controlled breeding of them so that we can harvest their species and eat them! :eek:
 
~Shard~ said:
Neither - tomatoes are actually ancient life forms from a distant planet which crash landed on Earth many millennia ago. And humans, being the savages that we are, purposely engage in controlled breeding of them so that we can harvest their species and eat them! :eek:
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Have you been reading Don't Hurt Me's UFO thread in the PRSI again?

Woof, Woof - Dawg
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