09 Oct 16
Originally posted by KewpieVegetable is an agrarian term.
If the definition of a fruit is that it contains seeds, there are a few of these "vegetables" - eggplant, capsicum, tomato as well as cucumber. What about pumpkin?
Fruits is both an agrarian and a bilogical term.
From a biologicla point of view the fruit of a plant is where the seed is.
Pumpkin has been counted as vegetable or fuit (in agrarian terms) in the former GDR whatever helped to fulfill the plan.
The agraian defintion os fruit and vegetable is vague at least.
I have heard:
vegetable has to be cooked - cucmber, peppers and tomatoes are eaten routinely raw.
friut is sweet - quince is not tasting sweet at all as are a lot of kinds of pears.
fruit is coloured - eggplant, tomato, peppers...
09 Oct 16
Here in Indonesia (at least where I am) cucumber plants grow like bindweed, and the cucumbers are about an inch long. one can pluck them off the plant and eat them whole; very nice if you like cucumbers. Probably this is how they started out before being hybridized into the monster cucumbers one encounters in Sainsburys. This information comes free of charge and is quite useless, and is also quite irrelevant to the main theme of this thread. It therefore does not beg response. (Unless anybody feels like responding).
09 Oct 16
Originally posted by Indonesia PhilYes. Yes. Yes. But is it a fruit? Come ON. ðŸ˜
Here in Indonesia (at least where I am) cucumber plants grow like bindweed, and the cucumbers are about an inch long. one can pluck them off the plant and eat them whole; very nice if you like cucumbers. Probably this is how they started out before being hybridized into the monster cucumbers one encounters in Sainsburys. This information comes free of ...[text shortened]... heme of this thread. It therefore does not beg response. (Unless anybody feels like responding).
