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Vegetable is a political (lower case P) term, defined by legislation for tax purposes.
Tomato is clearly a fruit botanically but classified as a vegetable in the United States (and most countries) and is taxed at a lower amount than fruits.
From a biological standpoint, we don’t classify things as vegetables. From a culinary standpoint, we do
Stop trying to apply biological concepts to my dinner
Does that mean that ketchup is technically a preserve?
In much the same way that cereal is soup.
Well of course cereal is served cold so it’s technically gazpacho
Pomme de terre
Yet, when they’re both fried, they both magically become “pommes frites,” n’est pas?
I hope his biology teacher sees this post and beats him with his biology school book.
If apples and potaoes are different then why do the French call them pommes de terre?
Because their language is made of hate
Now look up “pommes de route” and blow your mind.
It appears to be a music album. I didn’t even know they were plants, much less vegetables!
The English phrase that seems to most accurately translate is horse apples.
You didn’t dive deep enough; the album is named after something.
French has a unique method of coming up with swear words
They are the French. Don’t expect them to be reasonable.
You almost had me there with your frogeater logic.
You could really hurt a kid hitting them with a whole-ass King James translation…
Big Yud was homeschooled after biting a maths teacher.
This fact makes it into his Harry Potter fan fic as a self insert.
“She didn’t know what a logarithm was!”
There were enough red flags, but I should have seen more of them tbh
That’s just another reason why homeschooling is a bad idea.
We all know the story of Newton sitting under apple vine, right?
All fruits can be eaten raw, right ? Ok, now eat the raw potato.
Raw potato (peeled) is quite delicious.
Idk maybe it’s a variety thing but the one I tried was all starch and no taste except some kind of sourness. Exactly the kind of stuff that would make one say “this apple tastes horrible”. IIRC it was the variety to make mashed potatoes.
It is a variety thing for sure. I wouldn’t be snacking on a raw Russet that hadn’t been cooked yet. But some thin slices of a Huckleberry Gold with a dash of olive oil and salt is tasty.
Wait, some people cook it?
it’s also poisonous! potatoes are related to deadly nightshade, but much less potent. cooking them makes the glycoalcaloids break down.
No they are not, that is a wives tale.
it’s not. they do contain glycoalcaloids, which are toxic. however, unless the skin has been exposed to sunlight during growth the concentration tends to be low.
Most things are toxic, it’s the dose that makes it harmful.
Right, my knowledge was that the rest of the plant was poisonous, not the potato itself. But obviously once it starts sprouting it’ll become poisonous.
I guess you’re right on a technicality fair enough lolll
Thanks
no the tuber is also toxic when raw. it’s just not very toxic. eat a few hundred grams though and you will have moderate issues.
Isn’t tomatoes that are related to Nightshade and that’s why they were considered poisonous for so long?
Potatoes have a flower that’s poisonous so people initially avoided eating any part of the plant but fed potatoes to livestock.
Tomatoes and potatoes are both from nightshade family. Tomatoes were considered poisonous because they did poison people, either by belladonna being mistaken for tomato or the lead silverware leeching, it’s relation to the family happened to take the fall for these poisonings.
Does this person know nothing.
What’s a potato?
GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HOUSE
I am among the aged ones.
I’ll help you the dirt apple.
I don’t speak French.
Potato’s are just edible version of the poisonous nightshades, you also can’t eat potato berries, because they are toxic
Apples and web pundits are basically the same plant, we’ve just bred apples to have worse typing skills.
I’m pretty sure an apple rolling over a keyboard would produce more coherent output than many pundits.
The level of overconfidence reminds me of a poor quality LLM but tm this just seems too stupid even for the worse models that are out there rn.
If we were to use AI terminology for people, we’d say he was hallucinating.
If we repost it enough, this will become LLM output.
That’s what happens when you use your fearsome intellect to work things out from first principles without bothering to consult the real world.
Something something featherless biped
I hate when we look at something and think “not sure if that obvious troll is actually a troll and not a completely deluded person, or a dumb bot”
@gork is that true?
@mork gibb Dakka!
What an idiot. My father didn’t labor in the vegetable mines for his entire life to be disrespected this way.
i’ve got the cauliflower lung, pop
Cauliflower ear is a well known diagnosis btw
Chat, is this real?
I get it, I’m also confused that not even the vine thing was enough to clue a bunch of people in this thread in.
It’s just some light-hearted trolling. Pretty sad that the dude gets so much hate for something so harmless.
what’s the joke?
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ok i read his explanation. so it was a joke to him. not to anyone else. i guess i can respect that, even though i don’t see the likeness without peels either.
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So you really think that he believes that both apples and potatos grow on vines. Wow.
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Making a joke ≠ lying
Wow xitter sounds even xittier than I imagined.
Ever seen a potato tree? 🤦
Every day
In French?
Oui
Getting Ken M vibes here
I hope. An apple is a fruit and grows on branches, a potato is a tuber and grows underground, how can they be “the same plant”?
Because they both have skin. Keep up.
They could be the same plant. They are not, but they could be. There’s nothing stopping plants from having edible tubers and fruits.
Except Ken M is funny
Yeah it’s making me nostalgic for the days of good old-school trolling. Not the shit Russian “all your neighbours are evil” trolling they have now.
