Me neither. Brace yourself for another round of the banana = herb “debate” any time now :rolleyes:.
and round and round it goes…back to post 2
Except that what you wrote in post 2 contradicted what your link said it was.
Sweet or dill?
::sniffles::
my link said vegetible ‘read it all’
to the ‘sniffles’
its all about vlasic dills…spice number 2
Nope. Taxonomy is pretty much a human invention. In many cases there aren’t clear-cut distinctions between species (if one can even agree on what a species really is).
There is no botanical definition of “vegetable”. It is a culinary definition. Therefore, if one is talking about whether or not something is a “fruit” or a “vegetable”, one must ask “How is it prepared and eaten?”
Thus, tomatoes and cucumbers are vegetables, not fruits.
However, rhubarb is a fruit, not a vegetable…
Dogface,
I have to disagree there, there is a botanical definition of the word vegetable evidenced by the term “vegetative reproduction”. This term refers to reproduction in plants that do not use fruits for propogation of the species, like potatoes (stem tuber) and onions (leaf modification), carrots (root tuber).
While there may be different connotations to the word “vegetable” like by the US givernment wherein it recognized the tomato as a vegetable, it does not take away the fact that it is still a fruit.
Cheers
ashtayk, by your reasoning then, all plants are vegetables.
Which they are.
How’s that for stoking the fire?
For perspective: Is lettuce a vegetable, or a leaf? And are carrots a vegetable, or a root?
Some vegetables are fruits, some are leaves, some are roots, and others are some other plant part entirely. Why should this be a problem?
How about green peppers?
Personally, I’m still wondering about Apple Jacks.
Cucumber=green sausage.
My take on it goes like this: “Vegetable” is a very broad category meaning “the edible part of a plant.” That includes roots (carrots,) stems (celery,) leaves (lettuce,) flowers (broccoli,) seed-bearing fruits (apples,) and even the seeds themselves (corn.) Fruit, on the other hand, is a smaller category, a vegetable with seeds inside. Fruits include tomatoes, apples, melons, blueberries, zuchinni, and rye bread. Whoops! Not rye bread.
Folks fond of fungi often call mushrooms “fruiting bodies,” but I’m not going to open that Pandora’s can of worms.