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Old 17-10-2004, 01:06 AM
Stan Goodman
 
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On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 19:56:15 UTC, Tim Tyler opined:

Antipodean Bucket Farmer wrote or quoted:

Technically speaking, what is the difference between a
fruit and a vegetable?


Dunno if it's very technical - but:

``Definition of fruit and vegetable''

- http://www.comevisit.com/chuckali/definition/


But it's incorrect, because it confuses botanical and culinary definitions:
it says a vegetable is something that is grown to eat, but is not a fruit.
That he has to go out of his way to state explicitly that rhubarb is not a
fruit even though you can make pies from it should tell you a lot.

Why is it difficult to understand that a vegetable is something that is
neither animal nor mineral, and a fruit is a specific part of a flowering
plant that contains the seed(s)?


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