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[–] 34 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

Also one of the easier garden vegetables (yes, vegetable, fight me) to plant. Great for beginners.

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    Serious question: do people on team fruit also call other “culinary vegetables” fruits, such as cucumbers, zucchini, corn, eggplants, bell peppers, green beans, etc.?

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I’ve been told that beans are an especially magical fruit.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I don't mind calling all of those things fruit. It seems people get really weird about making savoury meals out of fruit. Like I know a tomato is a fruit, I put tomato on pizza, I never once while making pizza have a thought about whether a vegetable or a fruit is going on my pizza. It's just a tomato, it can swing both ways.

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  • I prefer polysemy. There is a very useful category of “edible plants typically used in savory dishes”. Imagine someone being upset with you because you brought green beans when they asked for a side of vegetables.

    I don’t see the point in taking the botanical definition of fruit and pretending it’s useful in the culinary world.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Fruits come from the flowering part of the plant and contain seeds, whereas vegetables are other parts of the plant (leaves, stems, roots, bulbs). They're fruit.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago*

    But that's not mutually exclusive with vegetables. Vegetable is not a botanical designation. Whether it's a vegetable or not depends on how it's typically used in cooking. Cucumbers, zuccini, and green beans all fall into the same category of being both.

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