Is the tomato a fruit or vegetable

"INTELLIGENCE is knowing that tomatoes are fruit. WISDOM is knowing not to put tomatoes in fruit salad."

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Originally Posted by JKTrix

"INTELLIGENCE is knowing that tomatoes are fruit. WISDOM is knowing not to put tomatoes in fruit salad."

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:laugh: You wouldn't happen to have a source for that quote would you?

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Originally Posted by Loony BoB

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Originally Posted by ShlupQuack

The main part of a plant is a vegetable, the things that grow off of plants are fruits. Things that grow off of trees, bushes, and vines are fruit. Carrots and potatoes are vegetables because the plant grows off of them, rather than the other way around.

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Flower are fruit? What about lettuce and cabbage? Nuts? The fig? Peas?

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Well there are other criteria too, fatty.

Aren't beans fruit? :confused:

I know some members who are fruits =D

EDIT: I voted "my vote doesn't count" because it had zero votes. Vote for that so my vote doesn't stay lonely!

im backing up my point now. I think tomatos ar enot a fruit or begetable, but a condiment. you use it to add on to other foods for example, hamburgers, saladas, french fries and more.

A Tomato is a fruit, of course.

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Originally Posted by Jackpot

I was doing that onpurpose lol Tomatoes are good on hamburgers and sandwhichs also

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gud one lol

It's a fruit, obviously.

WAIT! WHAT ABOUT BEANS! You know, the seeds in their nifty pods.

It's actually a fruit, but it's a vegetable imho.

Tomato is fruity tooty.

OMG I can't belive that this thread went on this long haha. Tomatos are fruit, becuase vegetables don't have seeds,but fruits do and a tomoto has seeds. or somthing like that.

but is a vegtable a full righted human being!? :confused:

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Originally Posted by Distain

OMG I can't belive that this thread went on this long haha. Tomatos are fruit, becuase vegetables don't have seeds,but fruits do and a tomoto has seeds. or somthing like that.

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Tomatoes are vegetables for Chris sake!!

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Originally Posted by Distain

OMG I can't belive that this thread went on this long haha. Tomatos are fruit, becuase vegetables don't have seeds,but fruits do and a tomoto has seeds. or somthing like that.

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Find a dictionary that defines vegetable as something that doesn't have seeds. Also, what does that make beans? Pumpkin?

Again, fruit and vegetables are not mutually exclusive - one can be both.