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[Ardesco]

I have had tomato with dessert, nothing like a nice creamy mature stilton on some rye crackers with a little bit of tomato on the top.

Anyway we have Tomato juice readily available (you usually only get fruit jucies in cartons, have you ever heard of cucumber juice???) and have you never had apple in a salad?? Just because the majority of people eat tomatoes with things that are classified as a vegtable doesn't automatically make it a vegtable.

Anyway i doubt the US supreme court classified a tomatoe as a vegtable, more likely they classified a to-may-to as a vegtable, whatever one of those is....

[Lucifer Box]

Special ?

Oh yes, he's "special" all right.

[Lucy]

It's not my fault Chico's God made me so...

Special ?

[AtW]

You're so funny AtW.

It's not my fault Chico's God made me so...

[Lucy]

It is odd because it's wrong - you don't get BLT or chicken salad sandwich with "fruit" - it contains veg like cucumber (which also has got seeds and turns into veg from flower - I know I grown them).

The view of the Supreme court makes perfect sense.

You're so funny AtW.
The world needs more people like you to be worried about such things.

[AtW]

You pointed out that you found it odd that we (The UK) classify it as a fruit, I highlighted why that is.

It is odd because it's wrong - you don't get BLT or chicken salad sandwich with "fruit" - it contains veg like cucumber (which also has got seeds and turns into veg from flower - I know I grown them).

The view of the Supreme court makes perfect sense.

[Lucy]

I have, they're called dessert tomatos as well.

What happened threaded ? Did the sausage roll spit you out ?

Is that your horse btw ?

[snaw]

snaw, have you ever had a tomato as dessert? Simple yes or no.

Irrelevent. Scientific definition of a tomato is a fruit. In the UK we class it as a fruit. What and how the US chooses to classify it's vegetables and fruits is neither here nor there. You pointed out that you found it odd that we (The UK) classify it as a fruit, I highlighted why that is.

You live in the UK, and are posting on a UK BB, so learn to live with the fact that a tomato is a fruit or move to a country where your kind of heretical fruit classification is tolerated.

I'm off to watch the bhoys put Manure to the sword. I suggest you go have another cherry beer, or whatever other 'fruity' beverage you are trying out tonight. Maybe dial a hooker too, it'll change your world view 100%, I guarantee.

[threaded]

snaw, have you ever had a tomato as dessert? Simple yes or no.

I have, they're called dessert tomatos as well.

[AtW]

snaw, have you ever had a tomato as dessert? Simple yes or no.

[snaw]

"The U.S. Supreme Court settled this controversy in 1893, declaring that the tomato is a vegetable, using the popular definition which classifies vegetable by use, that they are generally served with dinner and not dessert. The case is known as Nix v. Hedden (149 U.S. 304)."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato

High enough authority?

P.S.



Have you ever seen how cucumbers grow? They have plenty of seeds too you know!

Ah well, I forgot we are subservient to the US supreme court in the UK. Silly me. Who needs science when we have the US supreme court (And creationism) to explain everything to us dunderheads on the other side of the atlantic.

[threaded]

But in American Law pi was 3 at some point, and OJ didn't do it.

HTH

[AtW]

Authoratative source of definition please?

"The U.S. Supreme Court settled this controversy in 1893, declaring that the tomato is a vegetable, using the popular definition which classifies vegetable by use, that they are generally served with dinner and not dessert. The case is known as Nix v. Hedden (149 U.S. 304)."

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato

High enough authority?

P.S.

Scientific definition: "The ripened, fully developed ovary of a flower containing more than 1 seed".

Have you ever seen how cucumbers grow? They have plenty of seeds too you know!

[hyperD]

If an object contains Judge Fred's seed, then it definitely is a fruit.

[expat]

Tomato is a veg, just like cucumber and others.

Fruits are cherries, bananas, peaches, apricots etc.

Authoratative source of definition please?

("I know it is so" doesn't work after age 10).



Scientific definition: "The ripened, fully developed ovary of a flower containing more than 1 seed".
Everyday mnemonic: a tomato is like Liberace, not a vegetable but a fruit.