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[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago

Americans don't eat vegetables

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 0 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

All fruits are vegetables, but not all vegetables are fruit.

Vegetable = any edible plant part.

Fruit = Ovary of a flowering plant that carries the seeds.

[–] foggianism@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I remember watching a YT video once about a legislative move of a US county to declare the number Pi to be exactly 3.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 0 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

*State. It was Indiana.
* 3.2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFNjA9LOPsg – How Pi was nearly changed to 3.2 - Numberphile

[–] Kirsche_z@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I don't see how the supreme court could do this!

Clearly brown cows produce chocolate milk, so why don't plants that GROW UPWARDS!!! Count as trees?!?!?!?

The american logic clearly follows a mysterious trend of some sorts...

[–] Remavas@programming.dev 0 points 1 hour ago

The Supreme Court was fully aware of the technical term:

Botanically speaking, tomatoes are the fruit of a vine, just as are cucumbers, squashes, beans, and peas. But in the common language of the people, whether sellers or consumers of provisions, all these are vegetables which are grown in kitchen gardens, and which, whether eaten cooked or raw, are, like potatoes, carrots, parsnips, turnips, beets, cauliflower, cabbage, celery, and lettuce, usually served at dinner in, with, or after the soup, fish, or meats which constitute the principal part of the repast, and not, like fruits generally, as dessert.

The attempt to class tomatoes as fruit is not unlike a recent attempt to class beans as seeds, of which Mr. Justice Bradley, speaking for this Court, said:

"We do not see why they should be classified as seeds any more than walnuts should be so classified. Both are seeds, in the language of botany or natural history, but not in commerce nor in common parlance. On the other hand, in speaking generally of provisions, beans may well be included under the term 'vegetables.' As an article of food on our tables, whether baked or boiled, or forming the basis of soup, they are used as a vegetable, as well when ripe as when green. This is the principal use to which they are put. Beyond the common knowledge which we have on this subject, very little evidence is necessary or can be produced."

Nix v. Hedden, 149 U.S. 304 (1893)

So this is how the Supreme Court could do this: they were fully aware but reasonably decided tariff laws should be based on ordinary meaning.

[–] einlander@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago

So tomatoes are trans?

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 0 points 4 hours ago

Pizza is a salad according to your legal system

[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

This is dumb, botanically tomatoes are a fruit doesn't preclude them being vegetables because vegetable isn't a botanical term at all. Tomatoes are fairly sweet but they have more culinarily in common with vegetables. Nutritionally I'm not positive but it's a separate issue.

Regardless the supreme court decision was regarding tariffs/imports/customs which makes sense to classify it simply by the way in which people consume it. People eat tomatoes as a vegetable, just like we eat zucchini and cucumber as vegetables despite them all also being fruit.

[–] BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Obviously fruit/vegetable should be broken down into whether or not you can just make a sauce with it.

Tomatoes: easily broken0 down into a sauce Apples: guess what? saucable

Zucchini: not easily sauced. Cucumber: don't even think about it!

[–] kerrigan778@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Hilarious but we're gonna end up with a few weird things like jackfruit and bananas becoming vegetables. I'd also add that apples are only sauceable through maceration which really puts them into the same camp as squash like zucchini, and any root really like carrots or celeriac.

[–] Hagdos@lemmy.world 0 points 47 minutes ago

Now I really want to try making a zucchini-cucumbersauce

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 hours ago

collapsed inline mediaStrange times for Berry Club

From Mr. Lovenstein whose website unfortunately doesn't seem to work, except to redirect you to Meta-owned socials. Ugh.

wow whoever made this post is SO smart

[–] Arfman@aussie.zone 0 points 56 minutes ago (1 children)

And we laughed when some pope declared the capybara is a fish

[–] ilikecoffee@lemmy.world 0 points 29 minutes ago

When... what? πŸ˜‚

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