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Technically speaking, tomatoes and chilis are fruits, while strawberries are not fruits (they are fruit clusters - each "seed" is an individual fruit). This is
by retrac 3y ago
Technically speaking, tomatoes and chilis are fruits, while strawberries are not fruits (they are fruit clusters - each "seed" is an individual fruit). This is such a point of contention (apparently) that there's a whole "culinary" vs. "botanical" fruit distinction made.
Logically, eggs are meat. It's a giant animal cell. Culinarily speaking, meat refers to the tissue of mammals, particularly muscle tissue from pigs and cows and other ungulates. Fish usually excluded, poultry is often excluded, and offal may be excluded as well.
It's for the same reason why we call blackberries and strawberries both fruits (even though they are not). Culinarily speaking, they're similar. Used in a similar way. Deer, beef, and pork are interchangeable in many recipes. Beef, chicken, and salmon, are not.
- valleyer 3y agoYour overall point is valid and very well explained, but potatoes are not fruits in either sense.
- retrac 3y agoIndeed. I mixed up my nightshades. Tomato! Not potato! Fixed.
- PrimeMcFly 3y agoYou're dead on about there being different botanical and culinary definitions, but I have never heard fish or poultry being excused as being meat. They are just different types of meat.
- valleyer 3y agoI agree it's a weird distinction, but it's by no means an uncommon one. Christians in the US, for example, often consider fish not to be meat. https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/good-question-why-isnt-seafood-considered-meat/ https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/good-question-why-isn...
- PrimeMcFly 3y agoIn a religious context, that doesn't surprise me, but that's about the only context I think it would hold true for.