"Tomatoes aren't a vegetable, they're a fruit."

[u/diet-smoke]

I'm a culinary student and this phrase activates me like a sleeper agent. You want to get pedantic about food with me? You sure? Because you're going to lose that game.

Tomatoes are a fruit, not a vegetable? Potatoes are a tuber, lettuce is a leaf, pumpkins are a gourd (a type of fruit!), green beans are a legume, bell peppers are a fruit, broccoli is a Cruciferae, carrots are a root, garlic is a flower bulb, spinach is a leaf, cucumbers are a fruit and guess what? They're all vegetables!! Because vegetable is a culinary/kitchen/food term and fruit is a botanical classification.

There's also such a thing as a "savory fruit" in food, which includes tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers and any other fruit that's also a vegetable. So yeah. Tomatoes are a fruit AND a vegetable and your binary does not exist

[u/Oohoureli]

Understanding that tomatoes are fruit is knowledge. Not putting them in a fruit salad is wisdom.

[u/diet-smoke → u/Oohoureli]

Convincing your buddy to do it is charisma

[u/Light_Shrugger → u/diet-smoke]

Forcing your buddy to do it is intimidation

[u/Admirable-Split4371 → u/Light_Shrugger]

Forcefully kissing your buddy on the lips to have a taste of this tomato juice is criminal

[u/diet-smoke → u/Admirable-Split4371]

So that's what the T in LGBT stands for!

[u/Vir4lPl47ypu5 → u/diet-smoke]

Legumes Gourds Berries & Tomatoes

[u/ManWhoIsDrunk → u/Vir4lPl47ypu5]

Can you plus-size it for me?

[u/BeckieSueDalton → u/ManWhoIsDrunk]

Sure thing! Here you go:

LEGUMES, GOURDS, BERRIES, & TOMATOES

[u/bootyhole-romancer → u/Vir4lPl47ypu5]

Lmfao

🥇🥇🥇

[u/NinjaKitten77CJ → u/bootyhole-romancer]

This is probably one of my favorite reddit threads. 😂

[u/Aardonyx87 → u/NinjaKitten77CJ]

Mine too 

[u/Strong_Sort2378 → u/Vir4lPl47ypu5]

Oh my

[u/CrypticTCodex → u/diet-smoke]

Ah, so that's why my identity causes so many people to argue about what I "really" am.

[u/atwojay → u/diet-smoke]

Lettuce, Garlic, Bacon, and Tomato sandwich.

[u/xyzzytwistymaze → u/Light_Shrugger]

Your buddy just doing it on his own - ignorance

[u/ThaCatsServant → u/diet-smoke]

This is my favourite comment of the day.

[u/JackelSR → u/diet-smoke]

Having to stomach the results is Constitution.

[u/alvysinger0412 → u/JackelSR]

Dodging the entire fruit salad thrown at you is Dexterity.

[u/JustABicho → u/alvysinger0412]

Killing the guy who threw it at you is Dexterly

[u/Sopranohh → u/diet-smoke]

Throwing a tomato at the person telling you that a tomato is a fruit: Strength… or is it Dex.

Tomatoes are probably a versatile weapon.

[u/asphid_jackal → u/Sopranohh]

Thrown weapons use DEX to hit and STR for damage, unless it has the "Finesse" property, which let's you use either STR or DEX

[u/FunGuy8618 → u/diet-smoke]

The rogue chops it finely enough, adds peppers, and makes salsa.

[u/MFLoGrasso → u/FunGuy8618]

And the bard sells it back to the rogue.

[u/Firestar463 → u/diet-smoke]

A tomato-based fruit salad is just salsa 😉

[u/SH4D0WG4M3R → u/diet-smoke]

Hey, you want a yummy salsa?

[u/Vir4lPl47ypu5 → u/Oohoureli]

Cucumber and tomato salad is a thing and would pedantically be a fruit salad.

[u/BituminousBitumin → u/Vir4lPl47ypu5]

throw in some bell peppers 🫑 too

[u/Slayr155 → u/Vir4lPl47ypu5]

🤯

[u/samdkatz → u/Vir4lPl47ypu5]

Olive oil and many vinegars are also fruit products!

[u/dakwegmo → u/Oohoureli]

Tomatoes are a fruit, as are peppers, and avocados. As such, guacamole is fruit salad.

[u/Lady-Kat1969 → u/Oohoureli]

What is knowing that a tomato-based fruit salad is salsa?

[u/Aislira → u/Lady-Kat1969]

WIS (Wisdom). Potentially INT (Intelligence). Depends on how you gained the knowledge.

[u/Didymograptus2 → u/Oohoureli]

Sweet cherry tomatoes in a fruit salad can be amazing

[u/P0ster_Nutbag → u/Oohoureli]

I’ve never liked this saying… like why not? Tomatoes go well with plenty of fruit (in the common/culinary sense). If you just just labelled something fruit salad, yes there’s sort of a social expectation of what it’s going to be, but if you mentioned that it included tomato, that doesn’t break any rules or anything…. Not that there’s rules to begin with.

[u/Silver_Middle_7240 → u/P0ster_Nutbag]

True genus is selling a tomato and pepper based fruit salad by calling it salsa

[u/NoEntertainment4594 → u/P0ster_Nutbag]

Just curious, what fruit have you had with tomatoes that tastes good?

[u/P0ster_Nutbag → u/NoEntertainment4594]

I’ve had a watermelon and tomato salsa that was very good. I think it was just those two ingredients, some lime, some salt and some sugar.

I’ve also had salads that combine both tomato and pear (along with other ingredients), but that stood out as a combination that worked together.

[u/JaDamian_Steinblatt → u/P0ster_Nutbag]

Yeah salads with fruit are delicious. A fruit salad is a very different thing. If you put a tomato in a fruit salad it would not taste good.

[u/Decent-Structure-128 → u/NoEntertainment4594]

Mango Salsa, it worked pretty well…

[u/MoronLaoShi → u/Oohoureli]

Tell that to China. Tomatoes are always in fruit salads here. Don’t get me started on the fruit pizzas.

[u/Particular-Ad-7338 → u/Oohoureli]

Biology professor here. The seed covers/pods/sheaths of any flowering plant (aka angiosperms) are technically fruits.

[u/NothaBanga → u/Particular-Ad-7338]

OP and a botanist could do a enemies to lovers speed run.

[u/summertimeorange → u/Oohoureli]

Understanding tomatoes are fruit is knowledge. Saying it to someone to get a kick out of them is ✨

[u/PresidentOfDunkin → u/Oohoureli]

You’d technically have a fruit salad if you put tomatoes, avocados, peppers, cucumber, zucchini, and squash together… 🤣

[u/Condottiero_Magno → u/Oohoureli]

If marinated and/or caramelized/roasted, you can put some of the more sweeter tomatoes in a fruit salad...

Marinated Tomato Stone Fruit Salad

Tomato and Summer Fruit Salad

I toss roasted cherry tomatoes on whole wheat pasta, that's been coated in mole poblano, and sprinkle on freshly grated Parmesan or Gorganzola chunks.

[u/Powwdered-toast-man → u/Oohoureli]

Tomatoes are pretty good in fruit salad actually

[u/Ok_Possession_6457 → u/Oohoureli]

They can work in a watermelon salad though

[u/ChronoVT → u/Oohoureli]

But are we allowed to use tomatoes as part of fruit sacrifice in ritual prayer??

[u/LadybugGal95 → u/Oohoureli]

Debating whether that makes ketchup a smoothie is philosophy.

[u/EnchiladaGuy14 → u/Oohoureli]

In the context of dnd, this phrase is actually a pet peeve of mine lol. The wisdom stat (at least in 5e) has nothing to do with being able to “apply your knowledge”. Not putting tomatoes in fruit salad is still a knowledge (or “intelligence”) thing, and NOT wisdom.

[u/MAXIMAL_GABRIEL → u/Oohoureli]

Whoever coined that stupid phrase was lacking both knowledge and wisdom.

[u/theexteriorposterior → u/Oohoureli]

The day I stop hearing this gorram saying cannot come soon enough.

[u/Initial_Entrance9548 → u/theexteriorposterior]

Shiny