What’s a common “fact” that’s spread around that’s actually not true and pisses you off that too many people believe it?

  • paraplu@piefed.social
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    4 days ago

    Other sweet plant parts are also considered culinary vegetables: carrots, squash, red peppers, sweet potatoes, fennel, and onions.

    Some of them you do have to cook to perceive as sweet, but non-sweet doesn’t seem to be a good dividing line. Striving for non-overlapping categories instead of just accepting the mess seems like a mistake.

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      2 days ago

      As a cook, you are wrong. Those are all vegetables. There is no purity test you can run on what is a vegetable and what is not, it’s literally just what people arbitrarily decided however long ago.

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      3 days ago

      I will accept these are also not vegetables in the culinary sense as well. Looks like you have single handedly eliminate a bunch of vegetables, congratulations.

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        3 days ago

        Ok, so what about peas? Or cabbage? Artichokes? What’s the specific cut off for being too sweet to be a vegetable?

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          3 days ago

          If it is sweet and is a berry/fruit like a tomato then it is not a vegetable. I am personally not having a hard time with this. Not sweet = vegetable. Sweet = debatable.

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            3 days ago

            Hold on, it didn’t need to be a berry/fruit earlier, does that mean carrots and sweet potatoes are vegetables after all?

            You know what, let’s try this the other way around: could you name specific examples of things you consider vegetables? Because we’ve named quite a lot now and you don’t seem to consider any of them vegetables.

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              3 days ago

              I am literally going off the culinary definition which is related to taste. If it is sweet it is a good chance it is a berry or fruit of the plant and not the vegetable matter.

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                3 days ago

                Well no, you’re switching between multiple definitions, none of which have ever been used culinarily, but more importantly, can you not name a vegetable? Are beans a vegetable?

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                  3 days ago

                  I stated the culinary definition of a vegetable. There are obviously different opinions on this. I have not switched my basic premise that a vegetable is the non sweet part of a plant which is not the fruit.

                  Why are you having such a hard time with this?

                  • Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml
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                    3 days ago

                    I’m not having a hard time, I’m interrogating your fake definition, so answer my questions: are peas a fruit or a vegetable? Are root vegetables fruits or vegetables? On the flip side, what about sour fruits like limes or blackberries? Are they vegetables?

              • Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml
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                3 days ago

                Wait I got a better one: if carrots and sweet potatoes aren’t vegetables why are they called root vegetables?

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                  3 days ago

                  I never said they weren’t, I just agree with you that by pure culinary reasoning they may not be considered a vegetable if they are sweet.

                  Why do people call a tomato a vegetable when it is obviously a fruit. The world may never know I suppose.