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[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 26 points 2 months ago (2 children)

My wife and I like to joke that vegetables aren't real and all of them are just something else in reality.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You're correct! "Vegetable" is a culinary term. "Fruit" is both botanical and culinary. The "tomato isn't a fruit" nonsense comes from people trying to conflate the two; if we called botanical fruits "grunkles" we wouldn't have this problem.

[–] 0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

All in favor of renaming botanical fruits to "gruntled"?

Aye

Edit: God damn you, autocorrect