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| Tomato: Fruit or Veggie? |
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kangnamdragon
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea
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Technically if anything starts off as a flower the resulting issue is a fruit.
Technically only. A tomato is a vegetable, damn nice vegetable too. |
If it is technically a fruit, what makes it a vegetable? |
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weatherman
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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| kangnamdragon wrote: |
| weatherman wrote: |
Technically if anything starts off as a flower the resulting issue is a fruit.
Technically only. A tomato is a vegetable, damn nice vegetable too. |
If it is technically a fruit, what makes it a vegetable? |
Vegetable is only an arbitrary term. A squash is a fruit too, but we all call it a vegetable. Vegetables usually being less sweet and/or less colorful but each society makes that call. |
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kangnamdragon
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 9:47 pm Post subject: |
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| weatherman wrote: |
| kangnamdragon wrote: |
| weatherman wrote: |
Technically if anything starts off as a flower the resulting issue is a fruit.
Technically only. A tomato is a vegetable, damn nice vegetable too. |
If it is technically a fruit, what makes it a vegetable? |
Vegetable is only an arbitrary term. A squash is a fruit too, but we all call it a vegetable. Vegetables usually being less sweet and/or less colorful but each society makes that call. |
I call a squash a fruit. A pumpkin is a fruit. There are many sweet tomatoes. Is a sweet tomato a fruit and an unsweet tomato a vegetable?  |
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coulter
Joined: 21 Apr 2004
Location: Gangwon-Do
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| Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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| I ordered a FRUIT platter here in Korea the other day and it had a lot of tomato on it!!!! Someone in Korea must know that they are a fruit. |
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kangnamdragon
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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| They're fruit because they grow on trees. |
trees or vines |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 6:50 am Post subject: |
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| One grade 5-6 kid a while ago argued the watermelon was a vegetable. I'm not sure why. I just looked in the picture dictionary and showed her that. I always thought it was a fruit. Then again I have heard a lot of times about a tomato being called a veggie. Not a big deal of course. I used to think Russia belonged to Asia. Only a few years ago did I realize it is both in Europe and Asia. |
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Yangkho
Joined: 22 Sep 2003
Location: Honam
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| Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 7:00 am Post subject: |
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Squash, cucumber, tomato: technically fruits, but popularly veggies.
Another example: the popular conception of what "fluency" in a language is vs. what a linguist considers fluency to be.
No, that doesn't make sense. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 10:00 am Post subject: |
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Cucumber, a fruit? Well I'll be. LOL.
Next thing ya know people'll be sayin' Michael jackson's a black guy.
By the way, is he a fruit or a vegetable?? |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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Growing up in Western Canada I was always told that tomato is commonly considered to be a vegetable but scientifically deemed to be a fruit.
Even in kindergarten I was taught that, in a sense, a tomato is both.
Most people don't eat it like a fruit, hence it's common classification (I suspect). |
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kangnamdragon
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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| jajdude wrote: |
By the way, is he a fruit or a vegetable?? |
both: fruit below the waist, vegetable above |
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Toby
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Wedded Bliss
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| Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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| coulter wrote: |
| I ordered a FRUIT platter here in Korea the other day and it had a lot of tomato on it!!!! Someone in Korea must know that they are a fruit. |
But you also see them on birthday cakes. What's with that? Tomatoes and fake cream?  |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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Kangnamdragon, what's your opinion on fruits?
Sparkles*_* |
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kangnamdragon
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
Kangnamdragon, what's your opinion on fruits?
Sparkles*_* |
An apple cannot marry an orange. |
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Toby
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Wedded Bliss
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| Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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| kangnamdragon wrote: |
| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
Kangnamdragon, what's your opinion on fruits?
Sparkles*_* |
An apple cannot marry an orange. |
I would beg to differ on that. |
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kangnamdragon
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea
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| Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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| How could they marry? Their parts don't fit. |
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