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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsYour entire distinction is invalid
Fruits are a subclass of vegetables. Anything that is a fruit is also a vegetable.
Also, grains are fruits.
Also, hot dogs are sandwiches. As are tacos.
These statements will be completely uncontroversial.
LakeArenal
(28,819 posts)Are, conversely, all vegetables fruits?
Can you provide links to prove such statements? (I dont need them, but you know, some people.....)
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Specifically, fruits are vegetables that contain both seeds and food for those seeds.
EarnestPutz
(2,120 posts)...affects it's meaning. Count me out for any further discussion on this silly topic. Bye.
elleng
(130,942 posts)hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)Go forward and argue at will.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Is that because they're 'vegetative matter'?
I agree that many things that some call vegetables (like tomatoes and avocados for example) are clearly also fruits, but ...
I think the confusion is because there are separate 'botanical' and 'culinary' definitions of these terms.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)nuff said
dweller
(23,640 posts)you mean love apples and alligator pears ?
🤔
and let's not mention the cameleopards 😐
✌🏼
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)turnips and parsnips. For me the the best part of becoming a grown-up was the right to refuse these
abominations...
Stuart G
(38,428 posts)........indeed,