What scary ass kind of carrots are you eating? :eek:
Um. . . you haven’t finished your demonstration. It does NOT say it is NOT a vegetable. You now have to prove something cannot be considered a fruit and a vegetable.
Again: when is a tomato not a vegetable? When is it OK to name a green pepper as a vegetable and it is not ok to name a tomato as a vegetable? I have not got a satisfactory answer to this yet. Someone said “name a vegetable” and I insist a tomato is a perfectly good choice. The fact that a tomato can or might also be considered a fruit means nothing as long as you do not prove both classes are incompatible. And I am staying away from the definition of “fruit” on purpose because it is one of those words which has different definitions depending on the context.
A tomato is as much a vegetable as a green pepper by any definition of the word “vegetable”.
OK, I think that our little sample has shown the 98% figure in the original quiz to be inaccurate. However, I have a similar exercise which field-testing has proven to produce the exact some response in 100% of test subjects. Please answer the following questions using your first impulse:
What is 4+6?
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What is 9+4?
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Repeat the phrase “I am a positive thinker!” to yourself for 15 seconds, then scroll down…
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WILL YOU GO ON A DATE WITH CRAZYMONKEY THIS SATURDAY NIGHT?
Honestly I thought of a banana. I’m obviously just visiting this planet.
You thought of apple? What a freak…
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Ok, yeah. Me too. 
I knew what was coming, and resolved to not say carrot. Despite that when the question came up I still panicked. Apple was the first thing that popped into my mind.
Tomato problem solved.
Contrary to common belief, a tomato is not a fish, actually it is a mammal that lives under the sea.
I doubt that 98% of any group of people (unless they were subjects in an astoundingly successful mind-control experiment) would give the same answer to any question of that type, regardless of what was done to manipulate their thought process. 80%, maybe, but I think even that is a stretch. Humans are diverse and unpredictable, and I am quite grateful for that.
For what it’s worth, I thought of spinach.
Here’s something Else that you may enjoy:
Drink 1+5 glasses of water.
Drink 2+4 glasses of water.
Drink 3+3 glasses of water.
Drink 4+2 glasses of water.
Drink 5+1 glasses of water.
Now repeat the number 1 to yourself as fast as you can for 15< /B>
seconds.
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QUICK!!! THINK OF STEALING A VEGETABLE!
Then arrow down.
Keep going.
You’re thinking of taking a pea, right?
If not, you’re among the 2% of the population whose bladders are the size of the goodyear blimp.
98% of people will rush to the restroom within ten minutes when given this exercise.
There was a naughty WWII song which said “she sits among the cabbages and peas” and the BBC considered it to be too risqué and changed it to “she sits among the babbages and leeks”.
So, what does it mean if you started to say"kiwi" and changed your answer to “turnip”?
Always. Unless you are trying to conform to society’s popular definition of a vegetabl: a non-sweet plant part.
Never. When one is a fruit, the other is a fruit. When one is a veggie, the other is a veggie. In short, both are fruits.
How so? Did you look at my post? A vegetable is a leaf, root, stem, or shoot. A fruit is the seed bearing part of the plant. You can remove all of the fruit without killing the plant. You can’t remove all of the leaves, all of the stems, all of the roots, or all of the shoots without killing the plant.**
Yep. 0 = 0. In other words, both are fruits.
prisoner6655321 common usage and the dictionary do not support your assertion. Please provide some proof that beans, peppers, zuchinnis, corn, etc are not customarily considered to be “vegetables”. Please provide some proof that the category “fruit” is by all definitions mutually exclusive with the category vegetable.
I suppose you also consider nuts cannot be nuts as they are also “fruits”.
I feel so unspecial. I thought carrot.
god, what am I, my first thought was “olive”
Wow, this is unexpected - I guess we have to add “the fruits and vegetables argument” to the list of arguments that are guaranteed to hijack threads around here (you know, like driving slow in the fast lane, etc.).
I don’t think the math has anything to do with the frequency that “carrot” comes up. I just spent five minutes walking around our building , randomly walking into people’s offices and saying “Hey! Name a vegetable.”
Not only did most of them say “carrot” first, but then they went on to tell me that most people would say “carrot.”
Zucchini.
I thought of cavalo nero…not only am I unusual, i’m also a gourmet. Sweet.
So, if tomatoe technacally isn’t a vegetable, and spam is neither a vegetable or meat, then…
Spam is tomatoe?
OMG
I thought of something immediately, but now I can’t remember what it was. It could’ve been a radiator for all I know. In the second second I thought up potato.