Anyone insisting on calling tomatoes a fruit rather than a vegetable is just looking for an argument. And I'm happy to give it to them 🙂SWMBO (a country girl from NC) would agree 100%. Me, a townie boy from FL who never ate a vegetable that didn't come from a can (yeah, I know it's a fruit) don't eat tomatoes. They're poisonous, donchaknow"?
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Why the Tomato Was Feared in Europe for More Than 200 Years
How the fruit got a bad rap from the beginningwww.smithsonianmag.com
Anyone insisting on calling tomatoes a fruit rather than a vegetable is just looking for an argument. And I'm happy to give it to them 🙂
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Is a Tomato a Fruit or Vegetable?
Tomatoes are typically grouped alongside vegetables in the culinary world, but you may have also heard them referred to as fruits. This article tells you whether tomatoes are fruits or vegetables.www.healthline.com
Short versionTLDR... just classify a Tomato as a fruitable....