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On 09/08/2013 23:45, kay wrote:
Bob Hobden;989422 Wrote: I have no doubt I will have better luck offering them to the neighbours than I've had with the excess runner beans. :-) The Portuguese make them into jam. Not green tomato jam, like we do with late ones that won't ripen, but a sweet red jam made with ripe tomatoes. I like it as long as I don't know what it is, but as soon as I realise it's tomato something in my brain says "this is a vegetable. You don't make jams from vegetables". Actually Tomatoes are Fruit |
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On 2013-08-10 08:52:37 +0100, David Hill said:
On 09/08/2013 23:45, kay wrote: Bob Hobden;989422 Wrote: I have no doubt I will have better luck offering them to the neighbours than I've had with the excess runner beans. :-) The Portuguese make them into jam. Not green tomato jam, like we do with late ones that won't ripen, but a sweet red jam made with ripe tomatoes. I like it as long as I don't know what it is, but as soon as I realise it's tomato something in my brain says "this is a vegetable. You don't make jams from vegetables". Actually Tomatoes are Fruit I thought I'd read somewhere - maybe here? - that they'd be reclassified as veg? I prefer the fruit idea - who can resist a Love Apple?! -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon www.helpforheroes.org.uk |
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kay wrote:
The Portuguese make them into jam. Not green tomato jam, like we do with late ones that won't ripen, but a sweet red jam made with ripe tomatoes. I like it as long as I don't know what it is, but as soon as I realise it's tomato something in my brain says "this is a vegetable. You don't make jams from vegetables". Nick's mum makes jars and jars of green tomato jam. And I was going to make this courgette marmalade, but didn't get time: http://www.abelandcole.co.uk/recipes...ette-marmalade |
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Peter & Jeanne wrote:
Hence, we lead nicely in to the fruit/veg difference topic - lol. Our annual show led to a few discussions about definitions. I was concerned about the 'tray of vegetables', whether I could put things like tomato, courgette, cucumber, etc in, which are technically fruit. (I was going to put a cucamelon in, and in hindsight I think I should have) And a lady questioned the 'geranium' category when all the entries are actually pelagoniums. Which I had wondered about previously And one of the floral arrangments said "with 3 to 5 flowers". I had either 3 or 25. I had a stem of crocosmia ... :-/ |
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Sacha wrote:
Actually Tomatoes are Fruit I thought I'd read somewhere - maybe here? - that they'd be reclassified as veg? How can you reclassify it as a veg? Surely the definition comes from the fact that the seeds grow inside it, so unless they have changed the physical form of a tomato ... |
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On 2013-08-10 22:14:52 +0100, Victoria Conlan said:
Sacha wrote: Actually Tomatoes are Fruit I thought I'd read somewhere - maybe here? - that they'd be reclassified as veg? How can you reclassify it as a veg? Surely the definition comes from the fact that the seeds grow inside it, so unless they have changed the physical form of a tomato ... No idea. But I do know I've read that - whether ir's right or wrong or was just an idea that hasn't been adopted, I don't know. -- Sacha South Devon |
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Martin wrote:
I thought I'd read somewhere - maybe here? - that they'd be reclassified as veg? How can you reclassify it as a veg? Surely the definition comes from the fact that the seeds grow inside it, so unless they have changed the physical form of a tomato ... strawberries are veg? Ah, now they did this on QI, and I can't remember what the answer was. Each individual blob of a raspberry is a fruit (or berry). Damn. Nope, can't quite remember, sorry. But no, they're not a fruit or a veg. They're something like a composite berrylette (ok, it wasn't this. But something kind of along those lines) |
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On 10/08/2013 23:17, Victoria Conlan wrote:
Martin wrote: I thought I'd read somewhere - maybe here? - that they'd be reclassified as veg? How can you reclassify it as a veg? Surely the definition comes from the fact that the seeds grow inside it, so unless they have changed the physical form of a tomato ... strawberries are veg? Ah, now they did this on QI, and I can't remember what the answer was. Each individual blob of a raspberry is a fruit (or berry). Damn. Nope, can't quite remember, sorry. But no, they're not a fruit or a veg. They're something like a composite berrylette (ok, it wasn't this. But something kind of along those lines) Strawberries are aggregate accessory fruit according to wonkypedia. Roughly meaning that the seeds are borne on the fleshy receptacle. Rasps and blackberries are multiple drupelets; drupes are fleshy fruit with an internal seed. -- Phil Cook |
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Phil Cook wrote:
Ah, now they did this on QI, and I can't remember what the answer was. Each individual blob of a raspberry is a fruit (or berry). Damn. Nope, can't quite remember, sorry. But no, they're not a fruit or a veg. They're something like a composite berrylette (ok, it wasn't this. But something kind of along those lines) Strawberries are aggregate accessory fruit according to wonkypedia. That'll be the one. :-) (there was a word-space in my head, and that was the nearest I could get. I think it wasn't a bad attempt, imho!) |
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