Zaad Posted August 27, 2003 Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 Ok, I've been wanting to ask this for a very long time, but was (still am) ashamed of starting a thread about it. Fuck it. The deadly combination of both patience and alcohol have written history, glad you're a part of it. Tomatoes are freakin' veggies.....in the West. I've asked 10!!! Thais ''is the tomato a fruit or veggie?'' and they all answered: 'Fruit'. What the.. Is the tomato a fruit in Asia and a veggie elsewhere? Ask your (bar)girl, I need more info please, THANKS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racha Posted August 27, 2003 Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 Well we had a thread about potatoes last week so why not, I am not 100% as never really thought about this before but I have never heard in Thai a tomato called a fruit before, its sold as a vegtable with all the vegetables and is in salads etc as a vegatable and called in these cases a vegetable so would have to think its not known as a fruit, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gene1944 Posted August 27, 2003 Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 Actually, tomatoe is classified as a fruit not a vegetable in the west also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carew66 Posted August 27, 2003 Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 It's all to do with seeds apparently.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
racha Posted August 27, 2003 Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 You guys are right and the seeds are the key, From a tomato web site below..... Although the tomato is not sweet, it is a fruit rather than a vegetable. That's because science calls a fruit any fleshy material covering the seeds of a plant. The tomato has seeds inside, so it is a fruit -- so are cucumbers, green peppers, and squash. We often refer to them as vegetables, though, because of the way they taste. We tend to think of fruits as sweet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulc31 Posted August 27, 2003 Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 Hi Zaad, A delicious juicy fruit, sorry man paulc31 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangkokbutcher Posted August 27, 2003 Report Share Posted August 27, 2003 To me, it still is and always will be a pure and simple vegetable, irrelevant of the true facts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torneyboy Posted August 28, 2003 Report Share Posted August 28, 2003 Hi Zaad, You should have asked 11...it is a fruit :: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiery Jack Posted August 28, 2003 Report Share Posted August 28, 2003 Says racha: ...it is a fruit rather than a vegetable. That's because science calls a fruit any fleshy material covering the seeds... The tomato has seeds inside, so it is a fruit... We tend to think of fruits as sweet So my scrotum's a fruit! I'd suspected as much, they way a few birds insist on chowing down on it . It's attached to a "stalk", after all. :: sweet jack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zaad Posted August 28, 2003 Author Report Share Posted August 28, 2003 Thanks for your support BKKButcher Racha, I checked the net as well and found out the tomato is either this or that. :: Call me a dumbass but I've always known the tomato as a veggie and it's too late to change that back now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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