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I don’t know why tomatoes are always the go-to “technically a fruit”
There are ones that are a lot weirder
Legumes are also fruits, so peanut butter is a smoothie
Heck, refried beans are a smoothie!
Because some people dont have the mindset of yhe biological(the scientific mindset) and culinary(the common mindset) seperate.
Tomato is common for it because its a fruit biologically and a vegetable culinarily.
Other examples of it in common practice is “berries”. Culinarily, strawberries and raspberries are berries, and bananas arent. Biologically its the opposite.
I think its fair to say a smoothie at least means you drink it from a cup. Is this how you’re refried beans?
Smoothie bowls are pretty popular.
Wait you don’t?
How many of those Solanum species are poisonous? New flavours indeed!
Even if you exclude that, I can’t imagine a Solanum tuberosum smoothie would be that delicious
Tomato toxic when it green, but delicious when it red. Creeping nightshade toxic when it green, but has anyone even tried it when it red? Probably delicious.
Since when are green tomatoes toxic? I eat fried green tomatoes every summer…
Oh, I’m… I’m so sorry.
From just some cursory googling it looks like they are toxic when raw, but frying them neutralizes the toxicity. That’s probably why you’ve never noticed!
Potatoes fall into this category too of both delicious and nightshade fun. So tastes great like anti freeze but it takes a lot longer to finally get you.
What? I love green tomatoes:(
“Cooking with Cody: Nightshade Stew”
Demetrius, give it a fucking rest.
You know what, cucumber is not even a fruit, but once you try adding just a little to your fruit smoothie, there’ll be no turning back.
All fruits are technically vegetables as they are edible parts of plants.
“Technically” fruit is a term in both botany and culinary lexicons, but vegetable is only a term for culinary purposes.
Trying to cross terms with different meanings between lexicons and hoping to get order out isn’t reasonable.
The original issue stems from an agricultural conmerce point, however, as the definitions dictated vastly different tariff rates, etc. In short, vegetables were often staples, and fruits were seen as luxuries. Therefore, when tomatoes first began arriving from the East, the savvy trader would call them vegetables in order to lessen their own cost to transport them, but claim they were fruit when wholesaling inland, IIRC.
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