Do You Really Like Vegetables?

[Theben]

I've found I really like lettuce, tomato, cucumber, and carrots with hummus in a sandwich.

I LOVE artichokes, and pickled beets are awesome. About the only ones I don't like are zucchini & asparagus.

[Proteus_MST]

Potatoes aren´t among the vegetables I´m really fond of.

At least if they´re "just" cooked.
I only like them if they´re in form of Swiss roesti or French fries (for our republican friends: I mean those things you call freeedom fries )

But given the choice between potatoes or rice I would definitely choose rice.

[SlowwHand]

I just call them fries now. Freedom fries is stupid.

[Proteus_MST]

I can only agree.
I wonder if the person who first came up with tjhe idea of renaming them into freedom fries still thinks this was a good idea

[Wernazuma III]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Tomatoes are technically a fruit .

What kind of arbitrary definition is this? Technically, cucumbers, pepper, tomatoes, pumpkins are all berries, raspberry and blackberry OTOH are drupes...
But the difference between fruit and vegetable is fuzzy and not selective, since vegetable is no botanic category.

[Nubclear]

I don't know about vegetables, but I do know that I like YOU!

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by Wernazuma III


What kind of arbitrary definition is this? Technically, cucumbers, pepper, tomatoes, pumpkins are all berries, raspberry and blackberry OTOH are drupes...
But the difference between fruit and vegetable is fuzzy and not selective, since vegetable is no botanic category.

Tomato is a fruit, watermelon is a squash fruit.
And a vegetable is undefined? Maybe on the planet Zorp.

[ZEE]

i like otmatoes and corn. rice. some other stuff to.

i am an omnivore i guess.

[Wernazuma III]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Tomato is a fruit, watermelon is a squash fruit.
And a vegetable is undefined? Maybe on the planet Zorp.

From Wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable
Since “vegetable” is not a botanical term, there is no contradiction in referring to a plant part as a fruit while also being considered a vegetable. Given this general rule of thumb, vegetables can also include leaves (lettuce), stems (asparagus), roots (carrots), flowers (broccoli), bulbs (garlic), seeds (peas and beans) and botanical fruits such as cucumbers, squash, pumpkins, and capsicums (bell peppers). Botanically, fruits are reproductive organs (ripened ovaries containing one or many seeds), while vegetables are vegetative organs which sustain the plant.

The question "is it a fruit, or is it a vegetable?" has even found its way into the United States Supreme Court, which ruled unanimously in Nix v. Hedden, 1893, that a tomato is a vegetable for the purposes of 1883 Tariff Act, although botanically, a tomato is a fruit.

Commercial production of vegetables is a branch of horticulture called olericulture.

Look up the entry "berry" and you'll find that a tomato botanically is one, but in "common parlance" is not, while it's vice versa with several "berries". Since vegetable is a category of "common parlance", it's us who define what root/fruit/seed/leave, etc. (even mushrooms?) is one, and which is not.

I'm perfectly fine on planet earth.

[SlowwHand]

My God. I didn't mean to push your buttons that much.
Ok then. That's just fine. Thanks for the education.

[Wernazuma III]

You're welcome. I have too much time at hand these days.

[SlowwHand]

On the bright side, you're now one of the leading experts on vegetables.

[LordShiva]

Invalid poll

[SlowwHand]

Maybe not. Ask Wernazuma. For all us laymen know, banana may be a vegetable.

[Wernazuma III]

To be true, I cultivate a garden of more than 2 ares size. I supply myself with potatoes, onions, beans, runner beans, peas, corn, and pumpkins for the whole year, tomatoes (~15 varieties ranging from dark plum colored over red to green, from huge to berry sized fruits), lettuce, corn salad, zucchini, cucumbers, peppers, Chinese cabbage during the season, and additionally this year I grew beetroot, radish, carrots, red cabbage, kohlrabi (turnip cabbage), brokkoli, black salsify (which the mice ate all up). The Jerusalem artichoke is a weed here, but it's useful since mice seem to prefer it over potatoes, or at least supplement their diet with it, and thus leave me more potatoes....