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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is dumb, botanically tomatoes are a fruit doesn't preclude them being vegetables because vegetable isn't a botanical term at all. Tomatoes are fairly sweet but they have more culinarily in common with vegetables. Nutritionally I'm not positive but it's a separate issue.

Regardless the supreme court decision was regarding tariffs/imports/customs which makes sense to classify it simply by the way in which people consume it. People eat tomatoes as a vegetable, just like we eat zucchini and cucumber as vegetables despite them all also being fruit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Obviously fruit/vegetable should be broken down into whether or not you can just make a sauce with it.

Tomatoes: easily broken0 down into a sauce Apples: guess what? saucable

Zucchini: not easily sauced. Cucumber: don't even think about it!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Now I really want to try making a zucchini-cucumbersauce

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hilarious but we're gonna end up with a few weird things like jackfruit and bananas becoming vegetables. I'd also add that apples are only sauceable through maceration which really puts them into the same camp as squash like zucchini, and any root really like carrots or celeriac.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pretty sure it's so giving ketchup to school kids constitutes a serving of vegetables.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago

No that was 90 years later as school budgets were cut further and further until they were using things like pickle relish as a required vegetable. Our public school system is an embarrassment.