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[dragdeler]

Ah, fruitmato vegetato, vegemato fruitato.


Try all you want to sort them by sugar content, their role to the plant, wether they grow above or below ground... In the end nature will go, how about deez nuts?

[anewaname]

Embrace the subjective view...

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When you look at tomatoes and your guts say "get me some of those!", then they are fruit. If your guts say "bleah, no, no, no..." then they are vegetable.

[Egan_BW]

Botany and the culinary arts have differing definitions of "fruit" and "vegetable". Which is fine, they're different fields with different needs. They are BOTH using linguistics. And if you ask what our favorite vegetable is, it's most useful to use the culinary definition, because we're talking about having stuff to eat. So in this particular use case, a tomato is a vegetable, and a potato is instead a starch.

[King Zultan]

Tomatoes aren't fruits or vegetables, they are terrible garbage.

[scriver]

Tomatoes aren't fruits or vegetables, they are terrible garbage.

You should grow your own tomatoes they are small red pockets of sweet joy and nothing like store bought ones

[Eric Blank]

I still wouldn't eat them. Bleh.

You can grow your own potatoes grafted to tomatoes, though.

[dragdeler]

I get why one could dislike a tomato, even in gastronomy they are treated so poorly, often choose the ones that conserve better, then refrigerate on top (which is a no go with tomatoes), often with quite unsightful cuts, that, even if you don't get the worst pieces they are still way too thick... thick enough to cool down everything around them as the stupid icecubes they are being served... and ketchup, well ketchup is a functional sauce but too omnipresent for what it is...

So I get it.

Can't make pizza without tomato tho, and good tomatoes are absolutely delicious, confirmed.

[Frumple]

Eeehhh... you absolutely can make pizza without tomato. You just leave the tomato out. It's generally not as good (imo, exception given for dessert/candy pizzas) but it's still recognizable as pizza and plenty edible, thankfully enough considering some poor bastards are allergic to tomatoes and otherwise would be unable to eat pizza without, like, dying. Better that pizza not be shackled to any one ingredient, so that its splendor may be spread to all instead of only many.

[Great Order]

I still wouldn't eat them. Bleh.

You can grow your own potatoes grafted to tomatoes, though.

Or you could crossbreed tomato and tobacco.

[King Zultan]

There are also Alfredo pizzas and not only do they lack tomatoes they are really good.

Also tomatoes are nasty alone but are good when you mix them with other stuff.

[EuchreJack]

Eeehhh... you absolutely can make pizza without tomato. You just leave the tomato out. It's generally not as good (imo, exception given for dessert/candy pizzas) but it's still recognizable as pizza and plenty edible, thankfully enough considering some poor bastards are allergic to tomatoes and otherwise would be unable to eat pizza without, like, dying. Better that pizza not be shackled to any one ingredient, so that its splendor may be spread to all instead of only many.

This man speaks the truth.

I should know, for I love pizza and can not have Cheeze.  Tomato pies are yummy! 

Also tomatoes are nasty alone but are good when you mix them with other stuff.

Tend to agree, for I love a good BLT sandwich, but generally dislike tomatoes on their own, regardless of variety.

[scriver]

I feel like we are a single comment away from having another pie/sandwich definition war

[dragdeler]

Well I also never eat tomatos on their own... They're so omnipresent in my diet, like am I going to wash down my bread with some nice crunchy grains? No I am not.

[Kagus]

Spoken like someone who's never had a delicious oatmeal sandwich!

...or cornbread with grits, for that matter.

[Laterigrade]

I feel like we are a single comment away from having another pie/sandwich definition war

I think we’re always one comment away from that tbh