+407 It doesn't matter what anyone says, a tomato will always be a vegetable in your eyes, amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I always thought a tomato was a fruit, but some people call it a vegetable and I'm not sure why.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Technically, a tomato is a fruit, but it doesn't taste like one.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

@1184627 (Bossfrog_IV): It's because it's usually served with/as a vegetable. As in, it's put in green salads, not fruit salads.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Oh, I guess that makes sense.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

And in the eyes of the US government.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Well no, it'll always be a fruit. I just checked a dictionary and it said ''a fruit eaten as a vegetable''.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Anything with seeds is a fruit; tomato, squash, cucumber. All of our vegetables have been a lie.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

From a nutrition standpoint, it is considered a vegetable.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Fruits grow on trees. Veggies grow on plants that die when winter comes.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Nah, I've gotten used to it being a fruit now...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The Supreme Court ruled that it is a vegetable in Nix v. Hedden in 1893.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It's an alien

by Anonymous 12 years ago

To me, the tomato is in its own class.

by Anonymous 12 years ago