fruit or vegitable

by **parno4u** on Sat Mar 17, 2007 7:33 am

is a tomatoe a fruit or a vegitable.
i really don't know.

by **vtmarik** on Sat Mar 17, 2007 7:40 am

Botanically, it's a fruit. It has thick skin covering seed-containing flesh.

However, in the 19th century the Supreme Court ruled that tomatoes are vegetables and are thus subject to vegetable trade tariffs (there were no tariffs for fruit imports back then).

So, in the end, it's still a fruit.

by **parno4u** on Sat Mar 17, 2007 7:47 am

yes but this is for what the people think

by **vtmarik** on Sat Mar 17, 2007 7:49 am

Oh i'm sorry, your post gave me the impression that you wanted the facts and not that it was some kind of poll.

My profuse apologies.

by **The1exile** on Sat Mar 17, 2007 7:57 am

Fruit. And screw what the supreme court says otherwise.

by **Spuzzell** on Sat Mar 17, 2007 8:43 am

A tomatoe is a spelling mistake.

by **parno4u** on Sat Mar 17, 2007 8:48 am

oops thanks for pointing that out

by **keiths31** on Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:12 am

I think people are out of topics for threads...

by **parno4u** on Sat Mar 17, 2007 11:51 am

that's why i made this

by **Cynthia** on Sat Mar 17, 2007 11:55 am

vegetable

duh!

Everyone knows that :roll:

by **luns101** on Sat Mar 17, 2007 12:03 pm

I think technically it's a fruit. All I know is it's extremely good for you.

by **parno4u** on Sat Mar 17, 2007 12:08 pm

i think it is a fruit

by **Cynthia** on Sat Mar 17, 2007 12:08 pm

lol of course it is a fruit

by **parno4u** on Sat Mar 17, 2007 12:10 pm

you said it was a vegi

by **Cynthia** on Sat Mar 17, 2007 12:11 pm

I was being ironic.. did you not notice all the eyerolling smileys? :lol:

by **parno4u** on Sat Mar 17, 2007 12:15 pm

this poll ends in 19 days so vote now everyone

by **neoni** on Sat Mar 17, 2007 12:23 pm

what constitutes a fruit or vegetable isn't a matter of opinion

by **Hitman079** on Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:09 pm

technically, the tomato is a fruit.
a tomato bears seeds, and it has a "sweet" taste (i wonder where the hell people found this flavor in a tomato).
it's considered a vegetable because, well, by itself it tastes like shit.
so i voted vegetable.

by **Numia Kereru** on Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:47 pm

I'm more interested in how people pronounce the word.

Do you:

a. pronounce it like 'tom-ay-to'?

or

b. pronounce it like 'tom-ah-to'?

And does anyone out there actually pronounce the word 'potato' like 'po-tah-to'?

by **Cynthia** on Sat Mar 17, 2007 5:57 pm

I say tom-ay-to..

but in norwegian it's just tomat... which is like.. tom-ah-t :roll:

by **Aries** on Sat Mar 17, 2007 6:09 pm

It's a vegetable. Simple as that. No arguments, no discussion, no criticism, it's just a vegetable. Everybody knows it's a vegetable. Even God knows it's a vegetable:

the Gospel of Aries, chapter 9, verse 17-18.

"And, to stop the countless wars that had been raging amongst the people of du, and the people of da, The Lord proclaimed," The tomato shall be a vegetable!!!!!" And so it was from then on, the tomato was a vegetable.

by **Beastly** on Sat Mar 17, 2007 6:18 pm

parno4u wrote:is a tomatoe a fruit or a vegitable.
i really don't know.

Have you ever heard GOOGLE

by **Numia Kereru** on Sat Mar 17, 2007 6:26 pm

Cynthia wrote:I say tom-ay-to..

but in norwegian it's just tomat... which is like.. tom-ah-t

Wow, very similar to the English version.

So is 'potato' called a 'potat' in Norwegian?

by **Cynthia** on Sat Mar 17, 2007 6:28 pm

lol no potato is potet, which is pronounce like pot-ét hehe :wink:

by **Numia Kereru** on Sat Mar 17, 2007 6:35 pm

Cynthia wrote:lol no potato is potet, which is pronounce like pot-ét hehe

That's pretty cool.

There's no word for potato in my native tongue; only names for each different variety that were grown here before the settlers brought the word potato with them to cover the whole species lol

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