"Who is sexier, Gumby or Mr. Bill?")
Thursday, June 17, 2010
did you know...
...the Supreme Court legally classified the tomato as a vegetable? They acknowledged that botanically it might be a fruit, but in common parlance it is certainly a vegetable. Nix v. Hedden, 1893. Ba-bam. I know being certificated to teach government was going to come in handy one day, and not just trying to teach a bunch of seniors the concept of NIMBY. They always thought NIMBY was a friend of Gumby.
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I always teach my second graders that in the science world a tomato is a fruit, but in the food word it is a vegetable.
Why are humans so confusing?
There is so much goodness in your post I don't even know where to begin...
I concur with this decision. Especially because it proves me right in a debate I had recently with Jack & Lee...If tomatoes were a fruit, we wouldn't put them on pizzas and salads.
I'm going to go with gumby on this one. The guy can walk through walls.
I put strawberries in my salad.
And apples and pears too. Are those therefore veggies?
But I am happy to agree with the savory, not sweet, characteristic of the tomato. I would not just pick it up and eat it raw--unless garden fresh of course and then with salt mmmm...
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