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Are tomatoes really fruits?

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steezy_conmaster
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ive have always wondered, what defines a vegatable and a fruit? i mean, im straight but nobodys ever called me a vegetable....
May 31 2011 1:51PM
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1337
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you're a fruit
May 31 2011 1:53PM
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Balto
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fruits have seeds, vegetables do not
May 31 2011 1:55PM
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steezy_conmaster
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i think you should understand my point of view where only homosexuals are fruits and hetreosexuels are vegetables. If you are calling me homosexuel i find it offensive and un-educated but i do not think you understand the fruit vegetable premisis
May 31 2011 1:56PM
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1337
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LOL CUCUMBERS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit

read it, get learned
May 31 2011 1:57PM
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spidermanatadesk
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"a fruit is a structure of a plant that contains its seeds."


Seems like the debate is settled...
May 31 2011 2:02PM
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.newman.
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In biology (botany), a "fruit" is a part of a flowering plant that derives from specific tissues of the flower, mainly one or more ovaries.

get learned.

your definition is in broad terms, not the true definition

May 31 2011 2:07PM
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1337
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Fruit (scientific): the ovary of a seed-bearing plant,
Fruit (culinary): any edible part of a plant with a sweet flavor,
Vegetable: any edible part of a plant with a savory flavor.
Vegetable (legal): commodities that are taxed as vegetables in a particular jurisdiction

MY BRAIN IS FULL OF FUCK
May 31 2011 2:08PM
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Mama.
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cake
May 31 2011 2:10PM
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skithebert
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try reading the next sentence

"The term has different meanings dependent on context. In non-technical usage, such as food preparation, fruit normally means the fleshy seed-associated structures of certain plants that are sweet and edible in the raw state, such as apples, oranges, grapes, strawberries, juniper berries and bananas. Seed-associated structures that do not fit these informal criteria are usually called by other names, such as vegetables, pods, nut, ears and cones."

clearly not a cut and dry thing
May 31 2011 2:11PM
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Mama.
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are a fruit too.
May 31 2011 2:13PM
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RubberSoul
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OP youre such a fruit dude
May 31 2011 2:13PM
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1337
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so to clear this thread up of misconceptions, fruit and vegetables are actually defined by taste: sweet vs savory.
May 31 2011 2:14PM
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SPECK
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May 31 2011 2:16PM
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TijmenDal
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Advocado is a fruit. Though it tastes like a vegetable to me. It's not sweet or anything.

May 31 2011 2:16PM
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1337
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see above post of mine
May 31 2011 2:17PM
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I_Am_Mod
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nothing else to add to this thread, except that i've just acquired about a kilo of cherry tomatoes and i'm eating em like grapes, so good! :)
May 31 2011 2:23PM
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Mama.
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amazing.
May 31 2011 2:27PM
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E.FARR
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no your a towel
May 31 2011 2:29PM
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