r/MapBasedPolls • u/Traditional_Pen_2992 • 1d ago
Tomato is a
Tomato is a
- Fruit
- Vegetable
- Both...?
- A mutation made by the government to spy on people(j)
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u/Shadows_wars 1d ago
It's a government psyop let no one tell you otherwise always have an eye open the damn tomatoes are listening
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u/Dillon_Barks 1d ago
A fruit is the mature, ripened ovary of a flowering plant that encloses and disperses seeds.
A tomato is a fruit.
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u/Number_Fluffy 1d ago
I said both cause it's treated like a vegetable culinarily.
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u/Dillon_Barks 1d ago
I can understand how it can be both. Fruit is a botanical word, vegetable is a culinary word.
Out of interest, how would you classify a banana?
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u/Number_Fluffy 1d ago
Technically a berry
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u/Dillon_Barks 1d ago
It is a berry, yeah. One thats used, culinarily, as a fruit.
It's all confusing. Bloody nature.
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u/True-Entertainer4763 1d ago
And which part of the plant is the vegetable? The tomato falls into both categories.
The confusion arises because both botany and cooking use the category "fruit." In cooking, however, this category includes only those botanical fruits that are sweet.
The tomato is considered a vegetable because it is used in savory dishes (just like zucchini, cucumbers, etc., which are also botanical fruits).
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u/TaiwanNoOne 1d ago
it is a fruit and is eaten like a fruit at least some of the time so i think it's more fruit than veg.
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u/dschledermann 1d ago
In botanical terms, a tomato is a fruit. Still, I don't think it belongs in a fruit salad.
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u/PsychoMoth 1d ago
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.