PhenomenalPancake@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-22 days agoWhat misconception are you tired of being spread?message-squaremessage-square277linkfedilinkarrow-up1125arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1121arrow-down1message-squareWhat misconception are you tired of being spread?PhenomenalPancake@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-22 days agomessage-square277linkfedilinkfile-text
What’s a common “fact” that’s spread around that’s actually not true and pisses you off that too many people believe it?
minus-squareSimon_Shitewood@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·10 hours agoWait I got a better one: if carrots and sweet potatoes aren’t vegetables why are they called root vegetables?
minus-squareDoomsider@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·10 hours agoI 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.
Wait I got a better one: if carrots and sweet potatoes aren’t vegetables why are they called root vegetables?
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.