Still a vegetable

[msmemory]

Actually, I don't need help, I just use my LJ to vent.

Comments

[hugh_mannity]

What sort of vegetable? Inquiring minds and all that :D

[msmemory]

Potato, I think. Maybe mushroom.

[valkyrie1972]

I feel like a mushroom sometimes. Kept in the dark and fed poo....

[hugh_mannity]

That's all good then, it's when you end up as a brussels sprout that things get a bit dicey.

[lanome]

I'd be a parsnip if I were you.

[iheronimus]

Too bad a tomato is technically a fruit...

8)

Ooh, look! a button!

[herooftheage]

As may be, but it's also technically a vegetable. The distinction most people think of when they say tomatoes aren't vegetables is primarily cultural, with a bit of culinary meaning as well, and as such, not particularly amenable to a technical treatment. In the broad taxonomic sense of "animal, vegetable, or mineral?", tomatoes definitely qualify. :)

Re: Ooh, look! a button!

[iheronimus]

How is it technically a vegetable? The commonly accepted definition of a fruit is a seed-bearing part of a plant. Parsnips and potatoes do not have seeds. Of course, neither do mushrooms, for the sake of argument...

Re: Ooh, look! a button!

[herooftheage]

In the exact same sense that potatoes and carrots are tubers, and yet are also vegetables. That they belong to a refined sub-class doesn't deny them entry into the enclosing class.

[bubbette]

I've maintained for years that the whole reason that the SCA mailing lists exist is so that people have someplace to vent. It's a relief valve on a pressure vessel...granted, most of those people are the ones representing the pressure.