• SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org
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      8 days ago

      The thing is fruit/vegetable is not a category in botany. Fruit exists, and it kinda has that definition, that it carries seeds, but that doesn’t serve to distinguish it from vegetables.

      Fruit/vegetable is a culinary distinction, rather than a scientific one.

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        8 days ago

        And this is the whole point of the controversy: The same word can have multiple meanings in different contexts and some people have trouble with that concept.

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          2 days ago

          There’s no controversy, only differing categories.

          If you are saying tomato is a fruit, you are using the botany category

          When I say tomato is a vegetable, I am using the culinary category

          If there’s argument it’s only because someone is keeping the category secret