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kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
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.
Asswardbackaddict@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Pretty sure it’s so giving ketchup to school kids constitutes a serving of vegetables.
kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days 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.