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[–] 16 points 11 months ago

But is Irish guacamole just Peruvian guacamole served in Ireland?

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  • [–] 32 points 11 months ago* (9 children)

    As a major guacamole and mashed potato fan the answer is no. Too many major differences. Potato is a vegetable and avocado is a fruit. Mashed potato is primarily potato with spices and an oil while guac is a fruit with a few other fruits, fruit juices, vegetables like onion, and some spices. Guac also functions primarily as a dip while mashed potato is stand alone with the ability to function as a dip. They aren't similar enough to be analogous.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    Vegetables aren't real. Potatoes are a tuber, avocado are a fruit, onion is a root, etc.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Vegetable is a culinary category but not a botanical one. Fruit is a botanical and a culinary category and the two categories overlap but are not identical. Tomatoes are fruits (botanically) and vegetables (culinarily) but not fruits (culinarily).

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago* (3 children)

    Vegetables are the parts of a plant that aren't fruit imo

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    But that's just incorrect. A potato is a tuber, not a vegetable, just like avocados are fruits and not vegetables.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    Is a tuber not a type of vegetable in the same way a leaf and a root can be a vegetable? Fruits are not vegetables obviously. If Tubers, roots, and leaves do not fall under the classification of vegetable then I suppose it truly does not exist.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago

    Guys is this mashed thing this other thing because it's mashed too?

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    They will not take away my mash n toast

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    ...i have not been paid or compensated to endorse this post...

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Potatoes are food for famine not thought.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    I feel like reading this is like a thought crime.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    This seems like as good a place as any to assert a much more defensible position: frito pie is Texan poutine.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    This would be true if a potato was a fruit.

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