Hoi Americans

**Alien5** · 11-24-2007, 11:28 AM

Originally Posted by Sextent

Originally Posted by Skizo

I do eat veggies if they're finely diced and mixed in with something. Salsa, for example. I also like pastas and lasagnas which will have tomato sauce.

Tomato is a fruit, old bean.

Which is a pulse.

The U.S. Supreme Court settled the controversy in 1893 by declaring that the tomato is a vegetable. based on the popular definition that classifies vegetables by use, that they are generally served with dinner and not dessert.

Due to the scientific definition of a fruit, the tomato remains a fruit when not dealing with US tariffs. Nor is it the only culinary vegetable that is a botanical fruit: eggplants, cucumbers, and squashes of all kinds (such as zucchini and pumpkins) share the same ambiguity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato#...r_vegetable.3F

copy 'n' paste ftw

**Sextent** · 11-24-2007, 11:46 AM

So it's a fruit.

Apart from in American cooking. Where they say it's a vegetable because we use it as if it's a vegetable.

So it's a fruit.

**Alien5** · 11-24-2007, 12:35 PM

no,i mean yeah, shit im confused now, where are all the merkins when you need them? settle this controversy ffs.

**Sextent** · 11-24-2007, 01:15 PM

There's no controversy, it's a fruit.

**kallieb** · 11-24-2007, 02:30 PM

It's an ambiguous fruit, which dreams one day to be a vegetable.

**Cheeseman1208** · 11-24-2007, 02:49 PM

Or is it an ambiguous vegetable who dreams of being a fruit?

o.0

**kallieb** · 11-24-2007, 02:52 PM

That too. Tomatoes are such indecisive things, don't you think!

EDIT: So it is!!!!!!!Bravo!!!!! My 1000th post pertained to the suggested personality of tomatoes, and it happened in the lounge. I couldn't be prouder. How befitting. Calls for a celebration I suppose!!

**Cheeseman1208** · 11-24-2007, 02:57 PM

I agree.

Was that your 1,000th post?

**kallieb** · 11-24-2007, 03:25 PM

^^ One suggestion. If your goal really is to belong to the three torrent communities you mention in your sig. Two of them strictly value their privacy and do ask of members that they never post the tracker name or URL.

There...my 1001th post is to be bossy. I feel like it's the dawn of a new day......