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tomatoes are fruits that are often used as vegetables and are botanically classified as berries*
*according to wikipedia and my interpretation of it
Intelligence is knowing that tomatoes are a fruit. Wisdom is knowing that they don't go into a fruit salad.
Charisma is selling salsa as a tomato based fruit salad
Strength is EAT MY DAMN FRUIT SALAD OR I'LL SMASH YOUR FACE IN.
What if you soak them in high fructose corn syrup first?
Then it's ketchup
Rules are meant to be broken.
According to some YouTube short (maybe it was vsauce?): botanically, fruits are vegetables so tomatoes are vegetables in both classification systems
In reality it really does not matter and the classification is somewhat arbitrary. Just think about adding it to a fruit salad. Would you do it? Then it's a fruit.
I've seen it too. I think it was Hank or John Green.
I once saw a little blurb at a sandwich shop stating that tomatoes are fruit, but if you pair them on a sandwich with jalapenos, you're getting both fruits and vegetables. I demand better scientific accuracy in restaurant marketing signs.
Now I wonder if jalapenos are fruit too (scientifically)
Very much so. Bell peppers and jalapenos are fruits from different strains of capsicum annuum. Biologists apparently don't agree on whether all chilli/paprika stuff is capsicum annuum, what's for sure is that they're all very closely related.
Vegetable has no meaning other than "part of a plant* we eat", so basically all fruits are vegetables
*And in the case of mushrooms, fungi
To add to this, vegetable is a culinary term and not a scientific term. Whereas, fruit can be both. Tomatoes are scientifically a fruit, but generally not from a culinary perspective.
This is precisely it: Tomatoes can be sweet enough to be a fruit, they can be acidic enough to be a fruit, but they're definitely too umami to be fruit.
Next thing people are going to insist on, wilfully ignoring the differences in taxonomy, is that peppercorns are fruit. A stone fruit, just like cherries or peaches.
Technically, according to the definition of a fruit, the cucumber is also a fruit, so yes, the tomato/cucumber salad is a fruid salad.