Comment on Honestly Bizarre
moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub 5 days agoPeople 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 5 days 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 5 days ago
Any non-fruit part of a plant. I’ll also make exceptions for nonstandard fruits like pods and kernels.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 days 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?
moobythegoldensock@infosec.pub 5 days ago
Because we all collectively decided fruit were their own thing? They’re the juicy snack plants give away to trick animals into spreading their seeds.
I’m not sure why the ancient chefs decided to be silly. They should have just called it all “plants” and be done with it.