More precisely the vanilla bean is botanically speaking a fruit.
Why did I look this up? Because of vanilla flavored Tootsie Fruit Rolls. I wondered if that was a misnomer.
Score one for Tootsie Roll Industries Inc.
Brian
It is also the only commonly-eaten species of orchid.
Vanilla and vagina mean pretty much the same thing.
I’m just saying.
I’m sad, because that’s one of my favourite bits of trivia, and you beat me to it. 
I love vanilla and other orchids, too.
I guess there really is no accounting for taste here.
Think about it.
Because it’s expensive if you buy a lot of it?
Cucumbers and zuccini and pumpkins are fruit, too. Not vegetables.
Now please carry on.
Ketchup is a fruit or maybe a vegetable.
Well, actually, the dictionary reveals that they both mean a sheath or a pod, and the orifice was so named because it resembles said bean.
But I like your answer better.
False. They are both fruits and vegetables.
Don’t forget about Peppers, Tomatoes, and a whole bunch of other stuff. All are vegetables.
Does this mean that vanilla ice cream satisfies a serving of fruit? To the frozen food section!
I was wondering what makes produce definitively a fruit, and looked it up in Ye Olde Wikipedia. Was surprised to see that many items we think of as vegetables are true fruits. Besides the ones already mentioned above, corn, peas, beans, and sweet pepper are true fruits. Also spices like chiles. The deciding factor is that the fruit is the object through which the plant puts out its seeds.
Purple is a fruit. [/Homer Simpson]
Botanically speaking, all vegetables are something else. Grain, seed, fruit, root, rhizome, etc.
peppers and tomatoes are biological fruits and culinary vegetables.
vegetable is a culinary term for some edible plants that are not sweet.
fruits are plants with seeds.
More specifically, they are the part of the plant that contains the seeds. Usually.
“What kinda Kool-Aid do you want? We got grape and red.”
“Red ain’t a flavor!” -Cedric the Entertainer
I once tried saying that chocolate comes from a bean, therefore it counts as eating a vegetable. My mother did not accept that argument.
word to your mother
We seem to be straying from the important part of the OP…
Vanilla tootsie rolls…mmmm
I haven’t seen the fruit flavors in stores around here. Now I’ll have to look.
Tell that to the guys in marketing trying to sell vagina flavored tootsie rolls.