I mean if you wanna get technical vegetables don't really exist. At least biologically speaking, all vegetables are fruits, roots, leaves, tubers, etc.
Vegetable is a culinary term used to classify foods from many different biological families that have similar cooking purposes.
This is why people acting like "tomatoes are technically fruit" is a weird out-there fact are ultimately wrong because it's actually pretty standard.
Well they're technically not wrong with the fruit tomato thing. It depends if you're using culinary definitions or biologic definitions. It's classified biologically from where the item comes from. So no, vegetables are not fruits and they do exist in a more biologic terminology as well.
well I have notice there are a few items in game that are labeled fruit that most people treat as vegetables. Like peppers. Personally since Rhubarb is used only in pies, and never cooked as veggies or served in salad, then it is mostly considered a fruit. Who out there eats raw rhubarb??? Well only my grandmother and I used to eat it raw when it was young and fresh, dipped directly in sugar and eaten like celery.
I know that there's a whole discourse about it - Rhubarb is used as a fruit but scientifically classified as a vegetable - but honestly all of it is weird. It literally isn't a fruit though cause fruit is defined as "the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering" Aka it's the fleshy stuff that forms around seeds - Rhubarb doesn't have that.
B') but also strawberries aren't berries so ... neither are blackberries, mulberries, and raspberries. Human classification is wild
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Vegetable is a culinary term used to classify foods from many different biological families that have similar cooking purposes.
This is why people acting like "tomatoes are technically fruit" is a weird out-there fact are ultimately wrong because it's actually pretty standard.
A neat article on the subject
That all being said the game is clearly using the terms fruit and vegetable in a culinary way so Rhubard should be labeled a vegetable.?
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Personally since Rhubarb is used only in pies, and never cooked as veggies or served in salad, then it is mostly considered a fruit.
Who out there eats raw rhubarb??? Well only my grandmother and I used to eat it raw when it was young and fresh, dipped directly in sugar and eaten like celery.
B') but also strawberries aren't berries so ... neither are blackberries, mulberries, and raspberries. Human classification is wild