As the other comment implied, salads are a poor gauge as to whether something is treated as a vegetable.
Better to use a crudité. And button mushrooms (which are the same species as portabello!) belong in a crudité.
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Lumidaub@feddit.org 6 months agoPeople putting them in salads, for one.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub 6 months ago
People putting things into salads need to chill out.
Tomatoes, cucumbers, mushrooms, salt, pepper, bacon, eggs, dressing, croutons, cheese, olives, olive oil, vinegar, peppers, salsa, chicken, steak, tortilla chips, chow mien noodles, etc. are all things one might put in a salad that aren’t vegetables.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 months ago
What exactly is a vegetable, by your definition?
As others point out, vegetable is a culinary term; fruit is a botanical and culinary term.
moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub 6 months ago
Any non-fruit part of a plant. I’ll also make exceptions for nonstandard fruits like pods and kernels.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 months ago
Why are fruit special though? Leaves and roots are also part of a plant, so why would a tomato not be a vegetable, but lettuce (leaf) and carrot (root) get exemptions?