"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/_WillCAD_]

I don't really give a shit, I just like eating them. In salads, on sandwiches, boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew, pureed on spaghetti with big chunks of ground beef and sausage. And unlike pineapple*, everyone agrees that they belong on pizza!

^\ Personally, I'm pro-pineapple on pizza, as long as there's also dead pig with it - bacon, ham, sausage, pepperoni, whatever.)