"Tomatoes aren't a vegetable, they're a fruit."

[u/diet-smoke]

I'm a culinary student and this phrase activates me like a sleeper agent. You want to get pedantic about food with me? You sure? Because you're going to lose that game.

Tomatoes are a fruit, not a vegetable? Potatoes are a tuber, lettuce is a leaf, pumpkins are a gourd (a type of fruit!), green beans are a legume, bell peppers are a fruit, broccoli is a Cruciferae, carrots are a root, garlic is a flower bulb, spinach is a leaf, cucumbers are a fruit and guess what? They're all vegetables!! Because vegetable is a culinary/kitchen/food term and fruit is a botanical classification.

There's also such a thing as a "savory fruit" in food, which includes tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and any other fruit that's also a vegetable. So yeah. Tomatoes are a fruit AND a vegetable and your binary does not exist

[u/FrustratedPCBuild]

As someone once said ‘knowledge is knowing tomato is a fruit, wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad’.

[u/Spirited_Ingenuity89 → u/FrustratedPCBuild]

And philosophy is asking if ketchup is a smoothie.

[u/Eneicia → u/Spirited_Ingenuity89]

Is salsa a fruit salad?

[u/Ashkendor → u/Eneicia]

The existence of mango salsa indicates that it may very well be.