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Addicted to Tomatoes

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  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    JoRocka wrote: »
    sympha01 wrote: »
    JoRocka wrote: »
    Vegetable means edible part of a plant. What makes tomatoes not a vegetable?

    you're definition of vegetable is incorrect.

    Peppers aren't veggies either.

    Tomato / tomahto

    no- a fruit is seedy part of the reproductive unit of a plant.

    Peppers- carry the seeds. So do tomatoes.
    Botanically speaking, a fruit is a seed-bearing structure that develops from the ovary of a flowering plant, whereas vegetables are all other plant parts, such as roots, leaves and stems

    http://www.livescience.com/33991-difference-fruits-vegetables.html
    I believe if you consult a dictionary, you'll find that is incorrect.
    No- it's not.

    websters is not the experts on plant parts.

    a tomato unquestionably is a fruit.

    But because of it's savory nature- we treat it as a veggie.

    Oh, I'm not questioning that it's a fruit. Many fruits are vegetables, or all, depending on which definition you choose.

    Fruit is the fleshy part of a plant that contains seeds. Vegetable is the edible part of plants.

    There was an actual Supreme Court case about whether or not tomatoes would be considered a fruit or a vegetable in the US. I'm surprised you've never heard of this debate before.

    I hadn't actually. My debates about tomatoes come from gardening sites. Though few are about whether it's fruit or vegetable.
  • diannethegeek
    diannethegeek Posts: 14,776 Member
    JoRocka wrote: »
    sympha01 wrote: »
    JoRocka wrote: »
    Vegetable means edible part of a plant. What makes tomatoes not a vegetable?

    you're definition of vegetable is incorrect.

    Peppers aren't veggies either.

    Tomato / tomahto

    no- a fruit is seedy part of the reproductive unit of a plant.

    Peppers- carry the seeds. So do tomatoes.
    Botanically speaking, a fruit is a seed-bearing structure that develops from the ovary of a flowering plant, whereas vegetables are all other plant parts, such as roots, leaves and stems

    http://www.livescience.com/33991-difference-fruits-vegetables.html
    I believe if you consult a dictionary, you'll find that is incorrect.
    No- it's not.

    websters is not the experts on plant parts.

    a tomato unquestionably is a fruit.

    But because of it's savory nature- we treat it as a veggie.

    Oh, I'm not questioning that it's a fruit. Many fruits are vegetables, or all, depending on which definition you choose.

    Fruit is the fleshy part of a plant that contains seeds. Vegetable is the edible part of plants.

    There was an actual Supreme Court case about whether or not tomatoes would be considered a fruit or a vegetable in the US. I'm surprised you've never heard of this debate before.

    I hadn't actually. My debates about tomatoes come from gardening sites. Though few are about whether it's fruit or vegetable.

    I think we learned about the fruit/veggie debate in grade school. Maybe middle school, but definitely early on in life. Maybe it's a generational thing.

  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    edited February 2015
    JoRocka wrote: »
    sympha01 wrote: »
    JoRocka wrote: »
    Vegetable means edible part of a plant. What makes tomatoes not a vegetable?

    you're definition of vegetable is incorrect.

    Peppers aren't veggies either.

    Tomato / tomahto

    no- a fruit is seedy part of the reproductive unit of a plant.

    Peppers- carry the seeds. So do tomatoes.
    Botanically speaking, a fruit is a seed-bearing structure that develops from the ovary of a flowering plant, whereas vegetables are all other plant parts, such as roots, leaves and stems

    http://www.livescience.com/33991-difference-fruits-vegetables.html
    I believe if you consult a dictionary, you'll find that is incorrect.
    No- it's not.

    websters is not the experts on plant parts.

    a tomato unquestionably is a fruit.

    But because of it's savory nature- we treat it as a veggie.

    Oh, I'm not questioning that it's a fruit. Many fruits are vegetables, or all, depending on which definition you choose.

    Fruit is the fleshy part of a plant that contains seeds. Vegetable is the edible part of plants.

    There was an actual Supreme Court case about whether or not tomatoes would be considered a fruit or a vegetable in the US. I'm surprised you've never heard of this debate before.

    I hadn't actually. My debates about tomatoes come from gardening sites. Though few are about whether it's fruit or vegetable.

    I think we learned about the fruit/veggie debate in grade school. Maybe middle school, but definitely early on in life. Maybe it's a generational thing.

    I've heard it before, mostly from school kids who just 'learned' that some fruits aren't sweet. Kind of like a strawberry isn't a fruit. But it doesn't fit the definition in any dictionary I've ever consulted. Dictionaries are where I look for word meanings. *shrug*

    ETA: Unless you meant the SC debate, in which case it may well be generational.
  • Roxiegirl2008
    Roxiegirl2008 Posts: 756 Member
    Guilty! I love those things! One summer I went the farmer's market so often, bought so many and ate them all of the time that I had a break out from the acid. Oh that didn't stop me though. That reminds me I have some for a snack today! YIPEE!!!!
  • becca5446
    becca5446 Posts: 14 Member
    I'm not as addicted as you describe, I don't eat tomatoes every day, but when they are in season where I live, I uesd to eat them so much I broke out in hives. Took me several years to figure out why I was getting hives. Apparently some people do that when they eat too many tomatoes. So now I have to limit myself :(
  • kayeiam
    kayeiam Posts: 215 Member
    I love tomato's too. I will eat them like an apple, (but I can not stand tomato on a sandwich or stewed tomato's in a meal). In summer my dad grows a bunch of cherry tomoto's (thinks he does it, cuz he knows I LOVE THEM). He sends me home with approx 6 to 8 plastic containers that 1lb strawberries come in. I will take a sandwich baggie full (as much as I can stuff in it without squishing the cherry tomato's), then I put it on my desk next to my keyboard at work and eat it like a snack (better than a bag of pop corn). I do this every day through the summer, untill no more cherry tomato's sprout on the vine :(
  • Mycophilia
    Mycophilia Posts: 1,225 Member
    I can't stand tomatoes! Love ketchup though lol.
  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,487 Member
    Vegetable means edible part of a plant. What makes tomatoes not a vegetable?
    Seeds in the edible part, mostly.

  • jenglish712
    jenglish712 Posts: 497 Member
    I love that a joke thread on a topic that gets endlessly and fruitlessly debated... became debated on fruit. Where's Xzibit when I need him.
  • jessicapk
    jessicapk Posts: 574 Member
    I, too, am addicted to tomatoes! I had a pint of cherry tomatoes with my lunch the other day. I routinely get about 3 Roma tomatoes and cut them up, add a little seasoning salt, and relish every bite. Spaghetti sauce, pizza sauce, tomatoes on pizza, stuffed tomatoes, any of them I can get my hands on. But DO NOT give me ketchup. I do not like my tomatoes sweet.
  • sjaplo
    sjaplo Posts: 974 Member
    We have hot house tomatos in BC - they are surprisingly good - especially cherry and grape varieties.
  • DeliVibes
    DeliVibes Posts: 67 Member
    I've only recently fallen in love with tomatoes! I used to be a ketchup addict so decided to wean myself off the sauce and replace it with the actual fruit/veg (the debate goes on) instead. Today I had 2 medium tomatoes and 6 cherry tomatoes. So delicious. Much better to be addicted to than ketchup!
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