On 10/12/15 22:12, Phil L wrote:
Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:
On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 11:19:33 -0000, Martin wrote:

On Wed, 9 Dec 2015 20:39:37 +0000, David Hill
wrote:

On 09/12/2015 13:12, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:
Why have Asda got tinned tomatos in the vegetable aisle?


Because people use them as a vegetable.
I for one don't want Tomato with custard as a desert even if it is
a fruit.

LOL

A good answer.

Our local Dutch supermarket chain has tinned tomatoes in the section
with Italian food.

Which leads us to the question of whether tomato ketchup belongs in
the fruit department :-)

Morrisons here has a "World Foods" isle. What they mean is "foreign
stuff".

Like tomatoes, potatoes, that sort of thing you mean? - or do you see these
as 'English' now because we've been eating them for so long?

I just ask where the "non-world" food comes from - and
get a predictably blank look.

But we are making a fundamental mistake: applying logic and
reasoning to marketing.

Similarly once, long ago, I asked a bookstore (Heffers!)
manager what was the distinction between "fiction" and
"literature", and how I should predict which section
contained any particular book.

He was somewhat bemused by the question, and admitted
he didn't know.