No, your eyes are not playing tricks on you. That IS a picture of tomato slices. Have you ever wondered whether tomatoes are...
...Vegetables?
...or fruits?Well today joyee revealed to me that tomatoes are in fact... FRUITS!!! *gasp* SHOCKING! I KNOOOWW!! ive always wondered, but not enough to make me actually look it up on the net, know what i mean? so today i looked it up...and here i shall copy and paste an excerpt from the internet..
"To really figure out if a tomato is a fruit or vegetable, you need to know what makes a fruit a fruit, and a vegetable a vegetable. The big question to ask is,
If the answer is yes, then technically, you have a FRUIT. This, of course, makes your tomato a fruit. It also makes cucumbers, squash, green beans and walnuts all fruits as well. VEGETABLES such as, radishes, celery, carrots, and lettuce do NOT have seeds (that are part of what we eat) and so they are grouped as vegetables.
Now don't go looking for tomatoes next to the oranges in your grocery stores. Certain fruits like tomatoes and green beans will probably always be mostly referred to as "vegetables" in today's society. "
"To really figure out if a tomato is a fruit or vegetable, you need to know what makes a fruit a fruit, and a vegetable a vegetable. The big question to ask is,
DOES IT HAVE SEEDS?
If the answer is yes, then technically, you have a FRUIT. This, of course, makes your tomato a fruit. It also makes cucumbers, squash, green beans and walnuts all fruits as well. VEGETABLES such as, radishes, celery, carrots, and lettuce do NOT have seeds (that are part of what we eat) and so they are grouped as vegetables.
Now don't go looking for tomatoes next to the oranges in your grocery stores. Certain fruits like tomatoes and green beans will probably always be mostly referred to as "vegetables" in today's society. "
COOL, HUH?!?
exactly, thats what I THOUGHT. apparently, tomatoes are in the family of CHERRIES, BERRIES.. you know the sorts. uber fascinating. i guess thats why they have CHERRY TOMATOES. gosh, the name is already giving a stupid IN YOUR FACE IM A BLOODY FRUIT LIKE A CHERRY DAMMIT statement and yet i could not see it! maybe i just didnt want to.
see how cherry like they look? =D... cant see the resemblance? GOD, you need to get your eyes checked. fine, this second picture should help..
DUMDUMDUM!!! LIKE CHERRIES INDEED!what now? you dont know how a cherry looks like?
anyway, THERE YOU HAVE IT!
TOMATOES ARE FRUITS!
owh yeah, and who woulda thought that cucumbers and green beans and what nots are ALSO fruits?!? gosh! x) well, dont you feel a teeny bit smarter now? REVELATION!!
owh yeah, and who woulda thought that cucumbers and green beans and what nots are ALSO fruits?!? gosh! x) well, dont you feel a teeny bit smarter now? REVELATION!!
