I thought zucchini but couldn’t come up with the name so I said carrot.
I’m so un-unique 
I thought broccoli. My wife mentioned this morning that it didn’t look like our broccoli was going to grow any more this year. Carrot never crossed my mind.
As for whether tomatoes are vegetables, well they are technically berries and berries are certainly vegetable. I don’t think there is a formal definition of “vegetables”, but I would certainly count tomatoes.
Wait. This is wrong. Six?
When I was a kid in the 70’s we used to do the same “riddle” but the magic number was 14.
What is 8 + 6 etc.
It was a mind association game rather than a riddle. Back then, whenever someone was talking about fine jewelry, they would mention 14 Karat gold.
I thought of succotash, until I realized it wasn’t technically “a” vegetable, so then I thought of corn. I don’t know what this says about me.
I thought of squash. Morphed six into squash, y’see? Looks like most of us didn’t answer carrot, though.
I will further narrow down the question, Desmostylus. For the object of this thread it is indifferent whether a tomato can be considered a fruit or not, and/or whether the fruit and vegetable categories are mutually exclusive. The issue here is whether a tomato is a vegetable or not. I say it is and you say it is not a vegetable.
One of the definitions included in Webster’s is
I say a tomato fits the definition and is therefore a vegetable.
Please prove a tomato cannot be considered a vegetable. Define common usage of “vegetable” and prove tomato does not fall in the category. Then tell us if you think a green pepper or a green bean do fall in the vegetable category. Why or why not?
i thought of an apple. i don’t know why
There was an instant where I tried to come up with a vegetable that was six letters long, couldn’t do it and defaulted to eggplant. I felt like a doofus when I saw carrot. Apparently, I can’t think like everybody else even when I try.
Try it on someone using 14.
I just tried it on two people and they both said carrot.
Another for squash…though technically squash is a fruit.
i thought carrot
I thought a squash was a gord
Right. This is a little f-ing strange, and I’m not entirely sure if your comment was straight-faced or not, but I did the exact same thing. Quite frankly, if true, the fact that we both came up with rutabega first but then went for carrot is infinitely more disturbing to me than the whole mass consciousness b.s.
Arrrrrrggggggghhhhhh!
See, this is why I lurk. It keeps people out of my head.
-ellis
I thought of a summer squash, but the word “zucchini” popped into my head. Weird.
Guess that’s one of those theories that just doesn’t pan out in real life.
That’s not the issue I raised. It was lack of qualifiers in the statement that “tomato is a vegetable”. If you’d said “tomato can be regarded as a vegetable”, or “according to some definitions, tomato is a vegetable”, that would have been correct.
You are avoiding the question. I say tomato is a vegetable and the dictionary backs me up. You say it is not always so and has to be qualified. How so? When is a tomato NOT a vegetable?
In what ways is a tomato NOT a vegetable that other vegetables ARE vegetables? If someone says a green pepper is a vegetable do you also correct them? Why have you chosen to correct my assertion and not any others? Please explain because I do not get it. In what way is a tomato differennt from a green pepper? Do you correct people who say green peppers are vegetables? on what account. Please expand.
A rose is a flower. Do I need to qualify that? why?
Why do I need to qualify the affirmation that a tomato is a vegetable?
In what way? Only in the English language? Only in this universe?
I thought of “arugula”, but then I usually do when someone asks me to name a random vegetable. I blame Steve Martin for this: “Arugula. It’s a veg-e-tuh-ble.”
<considers further>
Or maybe I’m just naturally perverse. When someone tried that stupid “Name a country starting with D” thing on me the first time, I ended up with a light tan jerboa from Djibouti.
Am I the only one that thought of a potato?
Onion… This is obviously Bogus!!