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Fruit/berry are biological distinctions, I think, whereas vegetable-ness is mostly culinary. I recall reading an argument refuting this, but it didn't alter my
by trentlott 10y ago
Fruit/berry are biological distinctions, I think, whereas vegetable-ness is mostly culinary.
I recall reading an argument refuting this, but it didn't alter my way of differentiating.
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoHm no. Ask your waitress for a bowl of oatmeal with berries and they bring tomatoes, you will be upset.
- Declanomous 10y agoThe issue is domain-specific definitions. It causes a lot of misunderstandings. A common issue is the meaning of the word theory.
- PhasmaFelis 10y agoYes. Oatmeal is culinary. What's your point?
- JoeAltmaier 10y agoRead it again. Fruit/berry was proposed as not being culinary.
- PhasmaFelis 10y agoIn context, it was clearly saying that a tomato is a fruit/berry in a biological context, but a vegetable in a culinary one. That doesn't mean that those words don't also have different meanings in other contexts.
- dragonwriter 10y ago> Ask your waitress for a bowl of oatmeal with berries and they bring tomatoes, you will be upset. Right, because if you ask your waitress, you expect culinary rather than biological definitions to be used. Then again, you'd usually ask for something more specific than "berries".
- c22 10y agoYou'd probably be upset if they brought raw cranberries or poisonous juniper berries too.
- richev 10y agoMany years ago I worked as a cashier in a supermarket. There tomatoes had their own classification as "salad".