Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
Every once in a while, we all witness a dinner table argument over whether a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable, and you just have to roll your eyes. It’s true that an 1893 legal cases established that a tomato is a fruit, but that was a battle over tariffs. A wise person once said that “Education means knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting one in a fruit salad.
” The truth is that fruit and vegetable are not mutually exclusive categories, and that if you try to classify other vegetables botanically, you’ll find that there are no vegetables.Botanically speaking, it’s still clear: eggplants, tomatoes, bell peppers, and squash are all fruits. It’s equally clear that mushrooms and truffles…
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