• HiddenLayer5
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    Also one of the easier garden vegetables (yes, vegetable, fight me) to plant. Great for beginners.

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        Serious question: do people on team fruit also call other “culinary vegetables” fruits, such as cucumbers, zucchini, corn, eggplants, bell peppers, green beans, etc.?

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          I don’t mind calling all of those things fruit. It seems people get really weird about making savoury meals out of fruit. Like I know a tomato is a fruit, I put tomato on pizza, I never once while making pizza have a thought about whether a vegetable or a fruit is going on my pizza. It’s just a tomato, it can swing both ways.

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            I prefer polysemy. There is a very useful category of “edible plants typically used in savory dishes”. Imagine someone being upset with you because you brought green beans when they asked for a side of vegetables.

            I don’t see the point in taking the botanical definition of fruit and pretending it’s useful in the culinary world.

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          Depends on context? If I’m talking about the fruit on the plant, yes. If it’s in my kitchen, no, that’d be silly 🙄

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      Fruits come from the flowering part of the plant and contain seeds, whereas vegetables are other parts of the plant (leaves, stems, roots, bulbs). They’re fruit.

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        They say knowledge is knowing that tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

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        But that’s not mutually exclusive with vegetables. Vegetable is not a botanical designation. Whether it’s a vegetable or not depends on how it’s typically used in cooking. Cucumbers, zuccini, and green beans all fall into the same category of being both.