FFTFY:

Yeah I knew mushrooms were shady shit since when they snuck in with the badgers. Nobody batted an eye back then and look at where we are now.

Fruit has a botanical and a culinary definition.

Vegetable only has a culinary definition.

Trying to decide on what food fits which category purely on the botanical definition of fruit is silly. In many other languages, the botanical and culinary definition even use completely different words. It's like saying lobster is red meat using a scientific definition of red.

But if we are having fun with this, rhubarb: definitely no fruit, but far too sweet, too often consumed raw or minimally processed, and far too at home in a yoghurt to fit nicely into the group vegetable.

I know this is probably a repost but the self-censorship is super annoying and has entered the lexicon in ways that can permanently damage human communication as a whole.

Yeah sure censor stuff from kid shows but we're at the point where "unalive" and "pdf file" are being used as code words. Everyone knows what they mean, even the censors.

I'm sorry, who exactly is out here calling mushrooms vegetables??

My wife and I like to joke that vegetables aren't real and all of them are just something else in reality.

VEGETABLES DO NOT EXIST

We just ignoring the mushrooms are also fruit(ing bodie)s?

I have a simple flowchart to determine what is or isn't a veggie:

> Can I eat it? -> Yes -> Does it come from an animal? -> No = Vegetable

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden

fucking fucking

In terms of botany, a vegetable isn't a thing (it's a culinary term).

Whereas a fruit has a specific botanical term (and a culinary term).

Not everything is "one or the other", some things are neither (Rhubarb), and some are both (tomato).

It's the difference between the culinary use of the word and the biological use of the word. I thought we already figured that out?

Mushrooms are detachable fungal penises that jizz into the wind.

The thing is too that mushrooms don't even cook like vegetables or even like a protein or anything. So not only are they not botanically vegetables, they aren't even culinarily vegetables either.

Also if you don't like mushrooms because of the texture, you're probably cooking your mushrooms wrong.

I had always learned if it has seeds (in nature) then it was a fruit, otherwise it was a vegetable or something else

fucking fucking

What? Who’s calling pumpkins, squashes, and cucumbers vegetables?

And no one calls mushrooms vegetables: mushrooms are mushrooms.