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All fruits are vegetables, so everyone is right.

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“Vegetables” makes no sense.

Tomatoes, grapes, apples, cucumber, pumpkin, eggplant, mushrooms, all fruits.

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I was with you until mushrooms, those ain’t even plants

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We are talking about “fruits” here which isnt even a term used to describe plants. Maybe in english, not in german.

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Fruits are a specific part of the plant, the seed-bearing part (pods and ferns are the exceptions, I guess). Veggies are the rest of the plant. Mushrooms are fungi’s and all, don’t get me wrong, but they’re not plants

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mushrooms are not fruits in any sense. Fruiting body is applied colloquially however since spores are not fruits this is also incorrect.

However much like with calling a tomato a fruit, it’s perfectly clear to call the penis loo lookin’ thing a fruiting body and only derranged pedants are bothered by it.

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Errbuddy wanna talk about tomatoes but the real question is, are bananas fruit? Some varietals are sweet and clearly belong in desserts and fruit salads, some are savory and starchy like potatoes, depending on the culinary tradition you come from they’re used in both contexts, and they can and should have seeds but they don’t due to selective breeding. Tomatoes exist in an ambiguous state, but bananas are somehow both at all times.

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Bananas are technically berries, which makes them a fruit. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of anyone think of a banana as a non-fruit before

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Plantains are bananas (same species, different varietals) and in many cultures are used in savory contexts

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Oh yeah, I forgot about those. Funnily enough, here in Spain bananas are plátanos and plantains are bananas

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The effective vibe is much more important than any underlying biology.

Tomatoes are vegetables.

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do you know how this meme or bell curves work? should be the dummy saying vegetable, the majority saying fruit, and the genius (on the right…) saying it’s a vegetable

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Guess we just know different people then

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Why would the genius say something wrong like that? Tomatoes are fruit - grows on the vine, contains seeds inside it, fruits regularly without destroying the parent plant.

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The genius would be saying that because the genius understands that when this question is asked, it only makes sense from a culinary viewpoint, not a biological one

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shut up nerd!

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