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kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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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BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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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- Hagdos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Now I really want to try making a zucchini-cucumbersauce
  
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- kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Hilarious but we’re gonna end up with a few weird things like jackfruit and bananas becoming vegetables.
  
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Asswardbackaddict@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Pretty sure it’s so giving ketchup to school kids constitutes a serving of vegetables.

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- kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  No that was 90 years later as school budgets were cut further and further until they were using things like pickle relish as a required vegetable. Our public school system is an embarrassment.
  
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