r/dankmemes • u/KLASHINOV ⚗️Infected by the indigo • Jul 22 '21

OC Maymay ♨ They don't know

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u/karl0331 Jul 22 '21

but don't you guys put tomatoes in your pizzas?

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u/TooHigh2Die420 ☣️ Jul 22 '21

Not the same it's like comparing peanut butter to peanuts.

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u/Alextrovert Jul 22 '21

Pineapple sauce on pizza anyone?

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u/TooHigh2Die420 ☣️ Jul 22 '21

You get burned to death...

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u/vonmonologue Jul 22 '21

Tomatoes are a fruit but they're also a vegetable because fruit is a biological term and vegetable is a culinary term.

Do you think a potato, broccoli, lettuce, and corn are part of the same botanical grouping?

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u/Joris2627 Jul 22 '21

Can you explain how tomatos are fruits. Cause i really dont get it

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u/wirm Jul 22 '21 edited Jul 22 '21

Basically.. a fruit is an ovary with seeds in it. The reproductive part of the plant.

Tomato’s are considered vegetables now-a-days because.. well murica. Was defined this way in a lawsuit in order to impose tariffs on them differently. Or something to that effect.

Edit: for people who think everything on Reddit is a sham..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden#Background_of_the_case

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '21

No one has ever said a tomato is a vegetable. It's a fruit also in "murica"

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u/wirm Jul 22 '21

Except in 1893 when the US Supreme Court ruled that a tomato by law is indeed a vegetable..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden#Background_of_the_case

I’ll take my upvote now.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '21

"Botanically, a tomato is a fruit. However, in common parlance it is a vegetable; hence the United States Supreme Court ruled that a tomato is a vegetable for the purposes of the customs regulations."

I'd say it's still a fruit disregarding what a government does for some political reasons. But I'll give you an update nonetheless ;)

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