• Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip
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    15 hours ago

    Botanically, there’s no such thing as a vegetable.

    That’s a culinary term, which seems to cover some fruits, some plant roots, some plant stems, some plant leaves, and some plant flowers.While culinary fruits are the other botanical fruits, and a few flowers (figs are weird)

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      12 hours ago

      The legal decision is important for a slew of reasons including taxation, SNAP benefits, etc. The decision was less about science and more about the reality of how tomatoes are used in our society.