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VFalcone posted...

Corn
Tomatoes
Squash
Cucumbers
Peppers

Categorizing fruits and vegetables like this is asinine.

The culinary definition of vegetable is an edible plant with low sugar content and a relatively savory flavor profile. A fruit is an edible plant with high sugar content and a relatively sweet flavor profile.

The plants you listed are fruits by the botanical definition. That makes sense for a botanist or someone studying plant biology. But we're talking about these plants being used as food and drink here. Why shouldn't we use the culinary definition over the botanical one?

Moreover, there is no botanical definition of "vegetable" as a category of plants. Vegetable just refers to the vegetable kingdom as a whole, which includes fruits, grass, flowers, trees, even algae. So if we go by the botanical definition, either none of the plants on the list are vegetables or every plant that has ever existed is a vegetable.

So not only are you pedantic, you're wrong.