By I should have kept my mouth shut - 23/01/2013 01:35 - United States - Davis

Today, I was talking to my grandma and I mentioned the fact that tomatoes are technically fruit. It's been an hour and she's still yelling, accusing me of lying to her. FML
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Same thing different taste

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Trickiest_K 9

It's amazing how fired up people get over a tomato...

So either show her some proof or just let her think she's right. it can't matter that much.

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I say argue your point and offer proof. Not that it's important to always be right, but if someone is berating you for lying about something that is a simple fact, I say stand your ground!

fruits, vegetables... you know... to-may-to, to-mah-to

the_awesomest_ 6

"Technically" a fruit. A fruit is a fruit, nothing really technical about that logic.

Also black and white aren't really colours as you can't make them with any products of the 3 primary colours :p

This sounds like something MY grandma would do if I told her it was a veggie

Kristoffer 35

There's a lot of vegetables that are fruits. Tomatoes, all varieties of squash, cucumbers; really, anything that grows on the plant above ground and isn't a leaf or seed pod. This includes all forms of berries. Just because something is a fruit doesn't mean it's not a vegetable. In fact, in a biological sense, all fruits are, by definition, vegetables.

I honestly find it hard to believe that tomatoes are fruit though.

Chris20003 17

Well a fruit is anything that has seeds in it i.e. the ovary of the plant. I would ask, where is the seeds in the tomato?

so what? shes getting anything through a straw soon anyway. no matter if its fruit or vegetable

Chris20003 17

It's ok we all know the truth, that its a fruitable.