Ideally the answers aren’t just political soapboxing.

      • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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        Tomatoes are both a fruit (botanically) and a vegetable (culinarily). “Vegetable” doesn’t have a botanical definition, so the old aphorism about tomatoes “not being a vegetable” is trying to conflate terms from two different domains and hoping you don’t notice.

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          And a large number of “fruits” aren’t even a fruit. We’re kinda bad at naming things sometimes