Tomato: Fruit or Vegetable? |
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 Jun 14 2008, 08:36 PM
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 omnomnom  Group: Member Posts: 1,776 Joined: Jul 2005 Member No: 180,688  |
It's a vegetable.
prove me otherwise? |
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Jun 14 2008, 08:43 PM
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 DDR \\ I'm Dee :) Group: Mentor Posts: 8,662 Joined: Mar 2006 Member No: 384,020 |
It has seeds :shrugs:
QUOTE Botanically, a tomato is the ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant: therefore it is a fruit
"vegetable" has no botanical meaning and is purely a culinary term. |
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Jun 14 2008, 08:48 PM
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 What Up, Whats Hapening Group: Member Posts: 360 Joined: Aug 2007 Member No: 554,698 |
well it has seeds so doesn't that make it a fruit
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Jun 14 2008, 08:49 PM
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 I'm Jc Group: Mentor Posts: 13,619 Joined: Jul 2006 Member No: 437,556 |
well that was fast
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Jun 14 2008, 08:56 PM
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 Fellatio. Group: Official Member Posts: 2,122 Joined: Mar 2007 Member No: 511,775 |
It's nasty.
So it's a vegetable. |
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Jun 14 2008, 09:10 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Head Staff Posts: 18,173 Joined: Mar 2005 Member No: 108,478 |
This is not a debatable topic. A tomato is a fruit.
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Jun 16 2008, 02:55 PM
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omnomnom Group: Member Posts: 1,776 Joined: Jul 2005 Member No: 180,688 |
You mean it's a fruit because it has seeds in it?
I've just always seen it as a vegetable. |
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Jun 16 2008, 03:01 PM
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QUOTE(coconutter @ Jun 16 2008, 12:55 PM)  I've just always seen it as a vegetable.
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Jun 17 2008, 07:23 AM
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 mercenary on call Group: Member Posts: 926 Joined: Aug 2006 Member No: 447,606 |
QUOTE(coconutter @ Jun 16 2008, 03:55 PM) I've just always seen it as a vegetable. I understand biologically it is a fruit. Technically yes it is. |
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Jun 17 2008, 09:20 AM
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 ;) Group: Duplicate Posts: 2,374 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 3,760 |
QUOTE(Synesthesia @ Jun 14 2008, 09:10 PM) This is not a debatable topic. exactly. so why is it still here? are we past moving things to the VIP lounge? maybe we should call james, he'll move it in a jiffy. OH JAMES, WHERE ART THOU?! ANOTHER TOPIC YOU CAN SHIP ON OVER TO THE VIP WHERE I WILL PROMPTLY MERGE IT WITH THE ORGY!! |
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Jun 17 2008, 10:13 AM
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Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 37 Joined: Dec 2007 Member No: 599,006 |
What about bananas?
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Jun 18 2008, 03:58 PM
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 Kate Group: Member Posts: 77 Joined: Jun 2008 Member No: 658,326 |
vegetable, all the way
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Jun 20 2008, 02:34 PM
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 Newbie Group: Member Posts: 4 Joined: Jun 2008 Member No: 660,186 |
A tomato is a fruit. I used to think it was a vegetable, but I was wrong.
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Jun 28 2008, 11:19 PM
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 the bird and the bee sides! Group: Member Posts: 1,697 Joined: Aug 2005 Member No: 201,280 |
QUOTE So a tomato is the fruit of the tomato plant, but can be used as a vegetable in cooking. I think of it as a fruit, but it's not like you're going to take a whole tomato to school to eat as a snack. =p |
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Jun 28 2008, 11:24 PM
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 sang loves hayden. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 3,373 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 5,687 |
VEGETABLE.
But I know for a fact that it's a fruit, yet I still don't believe it. I say it's a vegetable. |
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Jun 29 2008, 03:19 PM
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 Hello Newman. Group: Member Posts: 912 Joined: Sep 2007 Member No: 578,620 |
^ same here, I've grown up with it as a vegetable, which makes it seem to be one, even if it isn't.
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Jun 29 2008, 03:23 PM
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QUOTE(Bishinobi @ Jun 15 2008, 03:56 AM) It's nasty. So it's a vegetable.  I grew up with it as a vegetable, but I know it's technically a fruit. |
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Jul 23 2008, 10:51 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Official Designer Posts: 35 Joined: Aug 2007 Member No: 563,830 |
If everyone wants to get really technical, it's a fruit vegitable. *yes there is that classification* It's concidered a vegitable because of it's low sugar content but is under the fruit subcategory of vegitable because of the seeds. Other vegitables that fall under this category are avocados and eggplants.
and yes, I did do my research on this one!!!! |
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Jul 23 2008, 10:54 PM
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 poison Group: Official Member Posts: 4,806 Joined: Mar 2008 Member No: 629,020 |
It may look like a vegtable...and taste like a vegtable
but those suckers are fruits. I didnt find out until 4th grade. EDIT: fine lets just call it a Vegafruit. Solves both conflicts |
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Jul 23 2008, 10:58 PM
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 /人◕‿‿◕人\ Group: Official Member Posts: 8,283 Joined: Dec 2007 Member No: 602,927 |
QUOTE(Serendipity @ Jun 28 2008, 11:19 PM) I think of it as a fruit, but it's not like you're going to take a whole tomato to school to eat as a snack. =p I do that. Tomatoes are delicious. Anyway, it's a fruit. Vegetable just means it has no seeds in the edible part. |
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Jul 23 2008, 11:25 PM
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DDR \\ I'm Dee :) Group: Mentor Posts: 8,662 Joined: Mar 2006 Member No: 384,020 |
QUOTE(CelestialAbyss @ Jul 23 2008, 10:51 PM) If everyone wants to get really technical, it's a fruit vegitable. *yes there is that classification* It's concidered a vegitable because of it's low sugar content but is under the fruit subcategory of vegitable because of the seeds. Other vegitables that fall under this category are avocados and eggplants. You seem like a reliable source for information about vegitables. and yes, I did do my research on this one!!!! Weird to think that cucumbers are technically classified as fruits, too. Poor cucumbers, tomatoes are getting all the fame. When you ask if something's a fruit or a vegetable you're using terms that apply to way different things. If you're asking how it's grown and how it's cooked then I'd say that it's both. |
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Jul 23 2008, 11:45 PM
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poison Group: Official Member Posts: 4,806 Joined: Mar 2008 Member No: 629,020 |
My name means tomatoes in french : D
that slipped my mind also even though i took french. |
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Jul 24 2008, 12:33 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Official Member Posts: 5,166 Joined: Oct 2007 Member No: 585,858 |
VEGGI..
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Jul 24 2008, 01:39 PM
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 asdfghjkl; Group: Official Designer Posts: 1,121 Joined: Jul 2008 Member No: 665,416 |
FRUIT.
its a FACT. not a debatable topic[; |
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Jul 24 2008, 02:06 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 295 Joined: May 2007 Member No: 521,658 |
it's actually a genetically modified fruigetable made in the year 2011 and sent back in time by scientists before the end of the world so that humanity might become stronger with its nutrition and have a chance at fighting off the zombie sloth invasion of 2012, which actually move freakishly fast
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