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Old 10-12-2015, 12:20 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Ignorant Asda - tomatos

On 10/12/15 11:24, Martin wrote:
On Wed, 9 Dec 2015 21:38:03 +0000, Farmer Giles wrote:

On 09/12/2015 14:09, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:
On Wed, 09 Dec 2015 13:37:57 -0000, Martin wrote:

On Wed, 09 Dec 2015 13:12:15 -0000, "Tough Guy no. 1265"
wrote:

Why have Asda got tinned tomatos in the vegetable aisle?

http://mentalfloss.com/article/24881...-or-vegetables

Americans are stupid. Fruits hang on things, vegetables are in or on
the ground. And if you care to look up a proper website in the UK, not
some backwards way first country, you'll find there is also a technical
botanical reason a tomato is a fruit, to do with containing seeds. Same
goes for beans.



Tomatoes (note the 'e') are a fruit, but just don't put them in a fruit
salad!


I worked with a Dutch guy who sprinkled sugar on tomatoes before eating them as
a dessert. The rest of his packed lunch was weird too. Even stranger was that he
brought a packed lunch and a thermos of coffee to work everyday, when we had a
very good restaurant quality food canteen, where meals were sold for the cost of
the materials


The Dutch also sprinkle chocolate "hundreds and thousands" on
buttered bread. I hate to say it, but it is quite palatable.

But then I think brussel sprout sarnies are good too.