Well vegetable used to be used sometimes to mean “plant”.
Most people don’t really understand how words work.
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Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Fruit has a botanical and a culinary definition.
Vegetable only has a culinary definition.
Trying to decide on what food fits which category purely on the botanical definition of fruit is silly. In many other languages, the botanical and culinary definition even use completely different words. It’s like saying lobster is red meat using the scientific definition of red.
But if we are having fun with this, rhubarb: definitely no fruit, far too sweet to fit nicely into vegetable.
blackbrook@mander.xyz 5 months ago
tlmcleod@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Vegetation. It’s right there in the root lol you’re 100% correct with people not getting how words work
bountygiver@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Having both definition of the same word that can be confused with each other is also silly, the culinary definition should find a new word.
FishFace@piefed.social 5 months ago
THANK YOU
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Rhubab’s just sour celery
Revan343@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
But if we are having fun with this, rhubarb: definitely no fruit, far too sweet to fit nicely into vegetable.
Oh boy, another reason to hate rhubarb.
Also, you want a sweet vegetable? Sugar beet.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 months ago
raw unprocessed sugar cane is delicious
blibla@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
it becomes somewhat interesting when fruit is differently taxed then vegetables.
As was the case in a Supreme Court Ruling:
Nix v. Hedden, 149 U.S. 304 (1893), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court unanimously held that tomatoes should be classified as vegetables rather than fruits for purposes of tariffs, imports and custom