h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

The fruitfulness of the vegetablatious nature of a plant is in the fruitfulness of the explinations which expand the vegetable-like nature of organic matterials contained therein, if the vegetablness of a fruit is more fruitful than the vegetabulationsionus, of the fruitfulness of a vegetable, then the vegetablation of a fruit are indeed as fruitful as a fruit

fruit i say fruit i say fruit oh yea to the fruit, fruit i believe fruit it is fruit it must be, fruit for ever more it will be fruit oh yea tis the fruit, oh yea i believe in the fruit, give me the precious fruit and i will show you the wonderousness of the fruitynessness, oh yea the fruit to the fruit, in awe of the fruit, you must bow down to the fruit, you must believe in the fruit, i believe in the fruit why don't you believe in the fruit, oh yea to the fruit, the fruit is the one and only of all the fruits that ever were and ever will be fruit, oh yea to the fruit











it's vegetable int it?

Yes.
It is vegetable (as in animal mineral or vegetable).
But, it is an* fruit. praise be to teh fruitfulness of fruit hail the lemon, praise the tomato, praise the mispelt tomatoe give servitude to the apple its a bit early for me, who is Tom Ato, and which council is he counciler on?

Is your tomatoe any relation to Dan Quayle's potatoe?

sprout

oh yea to the an Sproutoe

The tomatoe, as I imagined everyone knows is a special* kind of tomato, grown only in Dan Quayle's garden

Footbacon,

Are you trying to join the Vogon poetry club? Post 22 should get you in wih high standing

F S

You really think its worthy of the Vogons?!

Join the vogonpoets, I did

where be they? I might take a gander...

Ahemhem. The classification of the tomato depends on what context you are using the word: Botanically, yes, it is the fruit of the plant. But culinarily (?) and culitvationally it comes under veg. And I speak as the poor sod responsible for reporting on the Agricultural Produce of the EU

hi Lucky Star,

So, to sum up. The tomato *is* a fruit. Though it might be called a vegetable by some depending on what people do with it.

az

Thanks az,

Everybody got that!? The part of the tomato that we eat is a fruit, right?
Class dismissed.

BTW, carrots are often eaten raw, and they are definitely the roots of a plant, as are potatos.

Another category is legumes; beans, peanuts (not really a nut), etc.

The scientific categorisation of tomato is that it is a fruit, as is a marrow, a cucumber, an aubergine and a courgette. But the scientific view doesn't always match up with the common view. For example, according to the scientists, strawberries are not a fruit, because the seeds are on the outside.

Gnomon,

Please see post 20, definition 2 of fruit.

az

I eat raw does that make a fruit? Wahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahwahahahahahawahahahahahahahwahahahahahahwahahahahahaha

*sigh*

Nothing *makes* it a fruit. It *is* a fruit. It's just that some people call it a vegetable because, well, I guess they prefer to think it is a vegetable. Perhaps because it isn't sweet? They probably also call avocados vegetables . . .

az

Tomatos can be sweet though... and some people... me included eat them like ruit because, they are* fruit

Strawberries *are* fruits. They're just not berries.