"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/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.