Scientifically, biologically, botanically, it is a fruit - it is the ripened seed-bearing part of the plant.
Likewise, eggplant, zucchini, squash of any sort, cucumber; all fruit.
...but in order not to pay tariffs on these items, back when there were tariffs on fruits but not vegetables, some Yankee businessmen arranged that these fruits be legally declared to be veggies.
Corporate consumerism trumps science once again...
Just to be really pendantic, corn is a grain, beans and peas are seeds. Green beans, being the pods of the plant, and pea pods, however, are vegetables - they do not ripen along with the seeds, but dry up and shrivel away when the seeds within are fully ripe.
I have 2 sisters who have degrees in plant science. Anytime the subject comes up, they pipe up -in unplanned unison- "vegetable is NOT a botanical term! It's a cooking term, it's meaningless in this conversation".
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If I would not eat it blended with frozen custard, then it is a vegetable. Yes that does make blueberries a vegetable.
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Scientifically, biologically, botanically, it is a fruit - it is the ripened seed-bearing part of the plant.
Likewise, eggplant, zucchini, squash of any sort, cucumber; all fruit.
...but in order not to pay tariffs on these items, back when there were tariffs on fruits but not vegetables, some Yankee businessmen arranged that these fruits be legally declared to be veggies.
Corporate consumerism trumps science once again...
Just to be really pendantic, corn is a grain, beans and peas are seeds. Green beans, being the pods of the plant, and pea pods, however, are vegetables - they do not ripen along with the seeds, but dry up and shrivel away when the seeds within are fully ripe.
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Every. Damn. Time.
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