very important question

Yes

No

let's make it it's own catagory

[james]

 

[ladyattis]

Um yes, because it is according to the studies in plant life. No veggie makes sugar to my knowledge. Tomatoes make sugar, therefore it's a fruit? Hmmm, help!

-- Brede

[lordmetroid]

By biological defintion a Fruit is "a system for reproduction made of a ripe ovary containing multiple seeds outside or inside on a package of biomass for fertilization and/or protection".

So yes, of course a tomato is a fruit. It contains multiple seeds in a package of biomass!
How could there be any question about it being a fruit or not?

Never heard of a vegetable in biological terms!

[mrapplecastle]

no...just cause

[Soundwave]

Biologically, everything that has seeds is a fruit. Yes, that means eggplant is a fruit.

[Lindsey]

It has seeds, it's a fruit.  Why is this a very important question? 

[Taors]

What if a dick has seeds? Why are you all forgetting seedy dicks?

Are seedy dicks considered fruit?

[lordmetroid]

Biologically, everything that has seeds is a fruit. Yes, that means eggplant is a fruit.

There are plants without fruits and yet have seeds. So no everything that has seeds isn't a fruit. A fruit is composed of multiple seeds organized in the fruit body.

[cerpntaxt]

Vegetable is culinary category, not a biological one.

[Soundwave]

Biologically, everything that has seeds is a fruit. Yes, that means eggplant is a fruit.

There are plants without fruits and yet have seeds. So no everything that has seeds isn't a fruit. A fruit is composed of multiple seeds organized in the fruit body.

You are correct, although I wasn't being as precise in my definition. I was only referring to "fruits and vegetables".

[Puke]

This is MADNESS!!

Tomato is meat!

[timmysoboy]

veg·e·ta·ble       (věj'tə-bəl, věj'ĭ-tə-)  Pronunciation Key
n. 

   1.
         1. A plant cultivated for an edible part, such as the root of the beet, the leaf of spinach, or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower.
         2. The edible part of such a plant.
         3. A member of the vegetable kingdom; a plant.
   2. Offensive Slang One who is severely impaired mentally and physically, as by brain injury or disease.
   3. One who is regarded as dull, passive, or unresponsive.
   4. A character from the Christian cartoon 'Vegitales'.


adj. 

   1. Of, relating to, or derived from plants or a plant.
   2. Suggestive of or resembling a plant.
   3. Growing or multiplying like plants.

Dictionary.com thinks that a tomato is a vegetable.

[Ecolitan]

veg·e·ta·ble       (věj'tə-bəl, věj'ĭ-tə-)  Pronunciation Key
n. 

   1.
         1. A plant cultivated for an edible part, such as the root of the beet, the leaf of spinach, or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower.
         2. The edible part of such a plant.
         3. A member of the vegetable kingdom; a plant.
   2. Offensive Slang One who is severely impaired mentally and physically, as by brain injury or disease.
   3. One who is regarded as dull, passive, or unresponsive.
   4. A character from the Christian cartoon 'Vegitales'.


adj. 

   1. Of, relating to, or derived from plants or a plant.
   2. Suggestive of or resembling a plant.
   3. Growing or multiplying like plants.

Dictionary.com thinks that a tomato is a vegetable.

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It also thinks that "vegetable" is a Kingdom...  like /animal/fungi/protista/.....vegetable

I'm calling bullshit.

[cerpntaxt]

[Ecolitan]

That's silly... the stuff on the right is seeds surrounded by stuff.  So is the tomato.  The stuff on the left is not.

That must be put out from the government.  Reminds me of when we learned what AD meant in government schools.  They explained that it meant Anno Domini and that After Death didn't make mathematical sense at all.  Then said that either one would be an acceptable answer on the test....   Fucking Retarded.