Is it a fruit or a vegetable, botanically correct version

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Apple, artichoke, asparagus, avocado, bean (string), beet, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrot cauliflower, celery, corn, cucumber, eggplant, grape, lettuce, onion, parnsip, pea, peach, pear, pepper, plum, potato, radish, raspberry, squash, tomato, watermelon.

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%% THE BOTANICALLY CORRECT VERSION %%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% If you've ever taken a botany course, you know that every part of a plant, whether fruit or vegetables, has a name. There's a science to it all, the sort of thing Mr. Hoyle would appreciate. So, let's look at some definitions. "Botanically and strictly, fruit is the ripened ovary of a flower, including its contents and any closely adhering parts. Examples are cucumber, pepper, tomato, apple, plum, raspberry." Or even more to the point, fruit is "the seedbearing product of a plant." According to the Botanists, the parts of squasyh, eggplants, watermelon, cucumber, and pepper that we ear are actually very large berries, so we are correctl to call them fruit.

With this light to guide us, we can safely determine that avocado, string bean, grape, peach and pear, are also, of course, fruit. Corn and peas also have seeds, so we may as well include them. Maybe we ought to rename that plot out back the fruit garden! Wait you wail.... You've never called a cucumber or a string bean or a squash a fruit in your life, and you'r not about to start now. You don't like that version of the game.

Origin: The Old Farmer's Almanac, Canadian Edition, 1996.

Shared by: Sharon Stevens, Nov/95.

Submitted By SHARON STEVENS On 11-24-95

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