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by Doyler - you have got to be kidding me! on November 3rd, 2009
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by iwnit on November 3rd, 2009
No. Real knowledge is to know that a tomato is botanically a fruit and culinary a vegetable:
"Botanically, a tomato is the ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant: therefore it is a fruit. However, the tomato is not as sweet as those foodstuffs usually called fruits and, from a culinary standpoint, it is typically served as part of a salad or main course of a meal, as are vegetables, rather than at dessert in the case of most fruits. As noted above, the term vegetable has no botanical meaning and is purely a culinary term."
Source and further information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato#Fruit_or_vegetable.3F
Not putting a tomato in a fruit salad is culinary conservatism...
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lol, great answer, thanks
by Doyler - you have got to be kidding me! on November 4th, 2009
Doyler: you are very welcome (pts already given)
:-)
by iwnit on November 4th, 2009