• brown567@sh.itjust.works
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    I don’t know why tomatoes are always the go-to “technically a fruit”

    There are ones that are a lot weirder

    Legumes are also fruits, so peanut butter is a smoothie

    Heck, refried beans are a smoothie!

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      Because some people dont have the mindset of yhe biological(the scientific mindset) and culinary(the common mindset) seperate.

      Tomato is common for it because its a fruit biologically and a vegetable culinarily.

      Other examples of it in common practice is “berries”. Culinarily, strawberries and raspberries are berries, and bananas arent. Biologically its the opposite.

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      I think its fair to say a smoothie at least means you drink it from a cup. Is this how you’re refried beans?

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        I have actually done that… well, I had a medical problem with swallowing and I was making shakes of all kinds of savory foods. Sorta like smooth soups… chicken and broth, roast beef with rice and potatoes, beans with salsa and cilantro… pretty good actually. I kinda miss the chicken milk.

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    How many of those Solanum species are poisonous? New flavours indeed!

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    Tomato toxic when it green, but delicious when it red. Creeping nightshade toxic when it green, but has anyone even tried it when it red? Probably delicious.

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    That Weird Fruit Explorer guy on Youtube has made some pretty interesting solanum smoothies and weird ketchups.

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    Fruit is a culinary term as well as a botanical one and all the “tomatos are fruit” discourse stems from mixing them up and is therefore stupid.

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    1 year ago

    You know what, cucumber is not even a fruit, but once you try adding just a little to your fruit smoothie, there’ll be no turning back.

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      “Technically” fruit is a term in both botany and culinary lexicons, but vegetable is only a term for culinary purposes.

      Trying to cross terms with different meanings between lexicons and hoping to get order out isn’t reasonable.

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        The original issue stems from an agricultural conmerce point, however, as the definitions dictated vastly different tariff rates, etc. In short, vegetables were often staples, and fruits were seen as luxuries. Therefore, when tomatoes first began arriving from the East, the savvy trader would call them vegetables in order to lessen their own cost to transport them, but claim they were fruit when wholesaling inland, IIRC.