Fruit vs. Vegetable. The big question.

>>> Potatoes are the ultimate food..

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Originally Posted by ShlupQuack

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Originally Posted by Levian

Cucumber is a vegetable imho.

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Tell that to SCIENCE. Oh snap.

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Pretty much all fruits (the edible ones at least) are also vegetables, since...

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A vegetable is a plant that is grown primarily because it produces an edible part [...]

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Pretty much all fruits (the edible ones at least) are also vegetables

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Yes, and no. Fruit is the plants ovary. Vegtable is everything else (i.e. leaves, roots, florets) that comes from a plant.

Reread my first post in this thread ;)

But the parts we eat are the fruits of the vegetable. A pumpkin plant is a vegetable, but the pumpkin itself is a fruit.

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Originally Posted by Psychotic

Fruit doesn't taste like crap.

(although I suppose this means that pears are vegetables and cucumbers are fruit)

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Originally Posted by Vincent Valentine

Being Irish, and having lived only a few feet from a farm for most of my younger life, I really should know this...

Let us leave this to someone a lot more intelligent than me to answer.

*goes and whacks himself over the head with a stick for not knowing*

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:D same

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Originally Posted by ShlupQuack

but the pumpkin itself is a fruit.

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You're a fruit! :mad2:

Fruits = Sweet
Vegetables = Salad

Fruits really rock.