if you are the sort of person who argues a tomato is a fruit not a vegetable

[ethelb]

What you think a vegetable is?

What's wrong with a decent steak?

When I talk about my chilli plant, I always talk about how many fruits it is making.

Once I have picked them, I do not put them in a fruit salad.

Do you want to start on fish as well?

Phylogenetically speaking, there's no such thing.

How absurd. There's totally such a thing as fish.

Have you not seen The Little Mermaid?

But are Jelly Fish really made of jelly? Or is it just a clever marketing ploy??

I thought that Bananas were a herb?

No, bananas are a form of phlegm.

What's the mumsnet fact about pineapples? I forget what it is but someone always comes out with it on threads like this and I go off and Google it...

So where the heck did I get that idea from...QI?

Is it that they grow on very smalls plants near the ground, not on big trees as you imagine?

Riveting thread :)

(From John Finnemore’s Souvenir Programme)

'And now a brief roundup of what is technically what.

Tomatoes are technically fruit - as are cucumbers. Bananas are technically not fruit but herbs. And strawberries are now technically fish, replacing sharks which are now technically vegetables.

Pluto is no longer technically a planet but is instead now technically a big rock in the sky.

In the animal kingdom, dolphins are staying on as mammals, and pandas have rejoined the bears, where they enjoyed much of their early success. Koalas, however, are still holding out from the bears and are considering offers to become technically lizards or - in a left field move - trains.

Lions remain cats, but cats themselves are no longer cats, having in a last-minute shock transfer joined long term rival dogs.

Finally, tungsten is now a musical instrument, peanuts are now amphibians and people who trot this sort of stuff out to dispute the answers in pub quizzes are - as they always have been - technically… that’s all we've got time for.'

They're cunts aren't they?

xkcd.com/1475/

Ahh the plant is a herb not the actual banana

I used to live in Syria. In Syria, lemons are classed as vegetables. HOW DO YOU LIKE THAT, EH?

There's something in pineapple which is also in spunk.

Someone more sciencey will need to elaborate.

What happened to Star Fruit?

What planet were they from? And why don't we still see them? Are they extinct?

Is the commonality of pineapple and spunk my loathing of swallowing them?

Brian Cox on plants "What is the point of them

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b052hptj

Yes, star fruit! They are very late-90's, aren't they?

Why did they go out of fashion?

Star fruit - bleuch
Dragon fruit - double bleuch
Sharon fruit - boak

Hands up who else thought Arthur when Dragonfruit was mentioned

Isn't a banana a herbaceous plant? Herbaceous plants are not necessarily herbs.

Pineapples are bromeliads. I studied them in the rainforest. Before I left I told people I was studying plants that grew on trees. And people said "what, like mushrooms?"

The fact they are still alive is testament to my patience.

New point of view here. Tomato is a berry.