Dad was a fairly good naturalist and grew many things. He even taught me all three along with potatoes are of the nightshade family (Solanaceae). No I didn't know the biological name, just the common name.

He actually grafted potatoes and tomatoes once.

Hard to say exactly when I learned it from him. He had so much knowledge to give about plants. Heck he even grew a guava tree in the desert. That's unusual by itself.

Yet grafting he as well told me about at a young age.

The main difference between fruits and vegetables comes down to whether they are classified by science (botany) or by cooking (culinary use).
Fruits develop from the flower of a plant and contain seeds.Vegetables come from other parts of the plant, such as roots, stems, leaves, or bulbs
Tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers are technically fruits in science because they have seeds and grow from flowers, but people cook and eat them as vegetables

its all the same to me

When John Olinger did them.

When I was like 5.

I still eat them as veggies

When I learned vegetables don't exist. It's all fruit, berries nuts, bulbs and something else.

I learned about tomatoes being a fruit when I was a young boy. The others I learned about in my 20s.

Hmmm .... they are not.

The words "fruit" and "vegetable" are legal terms and which they are defines how the edible part of a plant is treated with regards to taxes and trade laws.

Like tomatoes are a vegetable based on a 1893 United States Supreme Court ruling that tomatoes should be classified as vegetables for trade and tax purposes. The court based the ruling on how people commonly used tomatoes.

You mis-vegetabled three vegetables.

When I learnt humans are classified as animals in biology.

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not using it in a fruit salad.

Like 20 seconds ago but I still don't understand how a bell pepper is a fruit

Many moons ago in fourth grade.

I don't know, but I learned that cutting a bell pepper in half (red), cleaning out the seed and veins , and then stuffing it with my husband's tuna salad and eating it is almost better than sex. Its so good!

They're vegetables to me, I don't care what other people think.

I didn’t know about bell peppers.

Tomatoes, I learned as a child. The rest of them, I learned as an adult.

The thing is, if tomatoes are a fruit and potatoes are a vegetable, then this is a salad:

It's common knowledge.

Same with avocados, olives, zucchini, squash and many more. It's what defines a fruit. Its the seed pod for the plant that grew it. A vegetable is the plant

I dont remember when. It's not so significant that i remember the date.

There are many more.... But how does it matter. If it's edible, you eat it the way you want.

Being a fruit doesn't negate something from being a vegetable. Vegetable is an arbitrary culinary terms for plant matter used as food that isnt a seed, nut, or grain.


They arent fruits inteadnof vegetables, they are vegetables that happen to also be a fruit