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minus-squareParadachshund@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·15 days agoMy wife and I like to joke that vegetables aren’t real and all of them are just something else in reality.
minus-squareilinamorato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up40·15 days agoYou’re correct! “Vegetable” is a culinary term. “Fruit” is both botanical and culinary. The “tomato isn’t a fruit” nonsense comes from people trying to conflate the two; if we called botanical fruits “grunkles” we wouldn’t have this problem.
minus-square0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-214 days agoAll in favor of renaming botanical fruits to “gruntled”? Aye Edit: God damn you, autocorrect
minus-squareFrankDeath@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·15 days agohttps://www.reddit.com/r/dropout/comments/1crzui9/dropout_rising_vegetables_do_not_exist/
My wife and I like to joke that vegetables aren’t real and all of them are just something else in reality.
You’re correct! “Vegetable” is a culinary term. “Fruit” is both botanical and culinary. The “tomato isn’t a fruit” nonsense comes from people trying to conflate the two; if we called botanical fruits “grunkles” we wouldn’t have this problem.
All in favor of renaming botanical fruits to “gruntled”?
Aye
Edit: God damn you, autocorrect
https://www.reddit.com/r/dropout/comments/1crzui9/dropout_rising_vegetables_do_not_exist/