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[–] 37 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This is dumb, botanically tomatoes are a fruit doesn't preclude them being vegetables because vegetable isn't a botanical term at all. Tomatoes are fairly sweet but they have more culinarily in common with vegetables. Nutritionally I'm not positive but it's a separate issue.

Regardless the supreme court decision was regarding tariffs/imports/customs which makes sense to classify it simply by the way in which people consume it. People eat tomatoes as a vegetable, just like we eat zucchini and cucumber as vegetables despite them all also being fruit.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Obviously fruit/vegetable should be broken down into whether or not you can just make a sauce with it.

    Tomatoes: easily broken0 down into a sauce Apples: guess what? saucable

    Zucchini: not easily sauced. Cucumber: don't even think about it!

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  • Hilarious but we're gonna end up with a few weird things like jackfruit and bananas becoming vegetables. I'd also add that apples are only sauceable through maceration which really puts them into the same camp as squash like zucchini, and any root really like carrots or celeriac.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Pretty sure it's so giving ketchup to school kids constitutes a serving of vegetables.

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