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[–] TxzK@lemmy.zip 70 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Biologically, tomatoes are fruit. Culinarily, tomatoes are vegetables.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] variants@possumpat.io 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Ideally they are makeshift weed pipes

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago

I dunno, even in a culinary sense, tomatoes are way too acidic to lump in with vegetables imo. The textures are totally different from veggies too

[–] Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't think vegetable sounds right either. No one crushes up broccoli or carrots to make sauce for pizza and you don't add tomatoes to your roast veggies.

[–] poopsmith@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

People put carrots in pizza sauce, like Rao's: https://www.raos.com/products/pizza-sauce

And roasted tomatoes are great with some peppers and onions.

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] poopsmith@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Yup, but also a vegetable.

[–] occhineri@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, thanks nature for not adequately distinguishing between fruits and vegetables by cooking techniques!

Sometimes, you can be such a cunt, nature.

[–] Pepsi@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

I love playing around with recipes so have indeed made broc and carrot sauces, but this is kind of all about what feels right to say. And I think that there's a lot of cases where it feels wrong to describe tomato as a vegetable. Kind of how I'd feel odd calling lettuce a vegetable.

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Okay but if someone offered me a pizza with broccoli or carrot sauce I'd have to politely, but firmly refuse