Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.

A properly grown tomato absolutely can be so flavorful, sweet, tangy, varied, complex… that you could just eat it like an apple.

I am sad to say that, although I’ve heard of this, I have never had the pleasure of eating such a tomato.

Finally, to throw more insanity on this terminology dumpster fire…

Corn.

As a native son of Indiana, I have to say that’s the thing that breaks pretty much all of my categories. I lived the first twenty years of my life thinking that it qualified nutritionally (ugh, that’s another part of this terminology dumpster fire…the food pyramid. shudder) as a vegetable, which it…doesn’t really.

So… ketchup… is then roughly a tomato/corn smoothie, made primarily from two… frui-getables.

Great point. “Tomato smoothie” is already a term that makes me feel a little bit queasy, but adding in the corn…

Fruigetable.

Beautiful. fɹud͡ʒ.tə.bəl, I think, incidentally.