Because I'm a petty person...

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"Though botanically a fruit, squashes are frequently considered a vegetable in cooking

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[dug_whatever]

I actually eat more fruit when I think of it as ovaries.

Not to twist this up against your favor, cause when something is a fruit, its a fruit damnit, but when you break things down to the core scientific term, all fruit are vegetables. This would be, because they aren't animal or mineral. However. I agree with you and your step-mother should stop being a teacher all the time, and be a student on occasion

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Is it wrong that I want to wait for people to take a really big bite of fruit and then say "You know that you're eating a plants reproductive organs, right? That's an *ovary*!" I used to do the same thing when people were eating eggs - "You know that's basically a portable chicken uterus, right? Tasty."

I guess as a base level of classification, sure, we use the term vegetable, but it has a very different meaning than "it's a member of the plant kingdom" when we're talking about it as a food. The fun of having one word to mean many different things.

[kellygirlnyc]

If we ever eat together, please say those things in your head. ;)

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Ha! Deal.

[foundunicorn]

I’ve been saying tomatoes are fruit for years.
Fruit and real vegetables are nutritionally different.
This caught my eye on “nordskogen's Friends”

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Word. Are you familiar with this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden

"Botanically, a tomato is a fruit. However, in common parlance it is seen as a vegetable, hence the United States Supreme Court ruled that legally, a tomato is a vegetable."

[foundunicorn]

Just that the supreme court made that ruling long ago.