> > > Wolf "Wouldn't Bob and Larry-Boy technically be fruits?" spirit
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> > I know Bob the *Tomato* is technically a fruit. I thought cucumbers were definitely vegetables, though.
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> > Gri"Grapes are fruits"shny
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> I think cucumbers technically are berries, and tomatoes are too, if I'm not mistaken.
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> Trav"and bananas are berries, too, while raspberries are not"holt

Bananas are BERRIES?

I was once told that the easiest way to understand that a tomato is a "berry" is to see that it has a fleshy and pulpy fruiting body, having a star-shaped crown leaf. The tomato is thus in a berry family alongside blackberries, persimmons, and deadly nightshade. It is also a "fruit" because it bears seeds on the inside. So I guess that would explain how Larry-Boy would be a cucumber fruit and not a veggie.

This doesn't, however, explain why strawberries have their seeds on the outside.

Wolf "Personally, I always found strawberries a little creepy because not only do they have eyes all over their bodies, but the store-bought strawberries are spongy and pathetic and don't taste a quarter as good as those sappy breakfast commercials make them out to be" spirit