• TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldM
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      19 hours ago

      True in that it’s a fruit botanically and a vegetable culinarily (or, less arbitrarily for the latter, that it’s a part of a plant consumed for food).

      A carrot, as another fun example, is a root botanically, a vegetable culinarily, and, in the European Union, a fruit legally as a carve-out for laws about making jams.

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        12 hours ago

        Same with peppers, zucchini, and all forms of squash.

        Also, strawberries aren’t fruit, botanically speaking because the seeds aren’t inside