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I will accept these are also not vegetables in the culinary sense as well. Looks like you have single handedly eliminate a bunch of vegetables, congratulations.
Ok, so what about peas? Or cabbage? Artichokes? What's the specific cut off for being too sweet to be a vegetable?
If it is sweet and is a berry/fruit like a tomato then it is not a vegetable. I am personally not having a hard time with this. Not sweet = vegetable. Sweet = debatable.
Hold on, it didn't need to be a berry/fruit earlier, does that mean carrots and sweet potatoes are vegetables after all?
You know what, let's try this the other way around: could you name specific examples of things you consider vegetables? Because we've named quite a lot now and you don't seem to consider any of them vegetables.
I am literally going off the culinary definition which is related to taste. If it is sweet it is a good chance it is a berry or fruit of the plant and not the vegetable matter.
Well no, you're switching between multiple definitions, none of which have ever been used culinarily, but more importantly, can you not name a vegetable? Are beans a vegetable?
I stated the culinary definition of a vegetable. There are obviously different opinions on this. I have not switched my basic premise that a vegetable is the non sweet part of a plant which is not the fruit.
Why are you having such a hard time with this?
I'm not having a hard time, I'm interrogating your fake definition, so answer my questions: are peas a fruit or a vegetable? Are root vegetables fruits or vegetables? On the flip side, what about sour fruits like limes or blackberries? Are they vegetables?
I pulled the definition from online, it is not even mine. I do appreciate you confirming that you are acting like an asshole. Thanks, I was not sure if you were being genuine or not.
Hey, I keep answering your questions, I'm just asking perfectly reasonable questions that poke holes in your definition (that's definitely real and not made up because you claim to have found it in the vast world of "online") that you're refusing to answer because you know it doesn't actually work. Now, are you claiming root vegetables are fruits or do you recognise how ridiculous your definition is?
Just another person acting like an abusive asshat. Oh look ML, not surprised.
You're not being abused you absolute melt, you're the one resorting to insults when I point out your logical inconsistency. All I'm doing is applying your definition to the real world and asking if you agree with the conclusions - seeing as you've avoided confirming or denying a single one, the obvious answer is that you don't and are just trying to deflect. If you don't think your definition is accurate, why would anyone else?
Abusive, rude, and low IQ to boot.
Wait I got a better one: if carrots and sweet potatoes aren't vegetables why are they called root vegetables?
I never said they weren't, I just agree with you that by pure culinary reasoning they may not be considered a vegetable if they are sweet.
Why do people call a tomato a vegetable when it is obviously a fruit. The world may never know I suppose.