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10131102 No.10131102 [Reply] [Original]

Why is tomato a fruit and sweet pepper isn't?

>> No.10131108

because you touch yourself at night

>> No.10131116

>>10131108
Nothing wrong with that. It's completely natural!

>> No.10131138

>>10131102
If you're using the same criteria, either both are fruits or neither is. Botanic/culinary fruit respectively.

>> No.10131146

>>10131102
Tomatos are vegetables. The supreme court says so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden

>> No.10131148

>>10131102
Why is a cucumber a vegetable and a pineapple a fruit?

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>>10131148
Why indeed

>> No.10131158

>>10131102
Because leyman's terminology doesn't always match up with scientist classification.
See also: There's no such thing as a fish.

>> No.10131164

Why is bananas a berry and strawberry isn't?

>> No.10131354

'Vegetable' is an arbitrary culinary distinction and what are vegetables and what aren't is totally decided by you and the people around you. Both tomatoes and peppers are fruit, but both could also reasonably be called vegetables.

>> No.10131399

>>10131102
sweet pepper is.

>> No.10131416

>>10131148
cucumber is fruit.
>>10131354
>'Vegetable' is an arbitrary culinary distinction
cucumber is fruit.
incorrect.
a fruit is produced from the plant.
a vegetable is the plant.

>> No.10131448

>>10131102
Tomatoes are actually berries.

>> No.10131463

>>10131164
Banana has it's seeds inside the fruit, strawberry out.

>> No.10131483

Whats the deal with black people? They're not black and they're not people