I read your post and I'd like to help you get started. Please talk to me about how vegetables aren't real, because that sounds like an interesting af conversation.
Everybody and their cousin has experienced the argument âis a tomato a fruit or a vegetableâ at some point in their lives. Itâs a fun bit of trivia, and letâs know-it-allâs speak condescendingly, or at least they did like 10 years ago. âKnowledge is knowing tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting it in a fruit saladâ. Whatever.
Which brings up the point, that botany and culinary sciences are very different. Botany is the study of plants, culinary is cooking and how things taste. Botany is science, and it has rules (kind of), where cuisine is full of guidelines that are completely cultural.
Tomatoes are a fruit. A fruit is how many plants have babies, and are made in the ovary of a flower. I have a diagram.
Armed with this knowledge we can know that tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, beans, peas and peppers are all fruit.
âNowâ, I ask you, âwhat are lettuce, and cabbage, and spinach, and kaleâ?
âVegetablesâ, you say, assuredly.
âYes, but, what are they?â
ââŚvegetablesâ, you say, slower, and louder this time, not quite sure what Iâm wanting from you.
What are carrots, beets and radishes? Roots. What about celery and rhubarb? Stems. Potatoes? Tubers (food storage for the plant, and where new plant babies will grow from). Garlic and onions? Bulbs (also food storage). Mushrooms? Theyâre not even a plant, theyâre a fungus, in the kingdom of fungi, which is somewhere between the plant and animal kingdoms.
âVegetablesâ is just a word for plants that we eat, that doesnât have enough sugar to be a fruit, and not enough flavour to be a herb or spice.
Botanically speaking, there is no such thing as a vegetable. Theyâre just different parts of a plant that happen to be edible.
There are other plants, normally considered weeds, that can be âeaten like a vegetableâ. Dandelion, stinging nettle, dock, purslane, can all be cooked and eaten, making them vegetables, at least to the people to treat them as such. Itâs all very cultural, and biased, and based on nothing but what people think it is. Therefore, they are not a real thing, itâs just a concept.
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