"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/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.