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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.

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.

so do you consider watermelon a fruit or a vegetable?

A fruit. Is this supposed to be a trick question? Because it is a fruit by both the culinary and the botanical definition.

It is a gourd, meaning it's a fruit according to botanical categories. Some gourds are vegetables according to culinary categories, but not watermelon obviously.

most countries consider it a vegetable. It blew my mind when i told people casually that watermelon was a good fruit, and everyone started correcting me. It was weird but hey, america and uk arent the center of the world.

Is that because the peel can be cooked in savory dishes? Anyway if I was in a culture that considered it a vegetable I wouldn't argue.

Celery is revolting to me for some reason, so that.

@Vegy

Fuck cucumber and fuck the person who first thought "Oh this would go great in sushi" and decided to ruin the timeline for the rest of us.