On 12/05/2013 12:17 PM, Perry wrote:
The tomato is a veggie. Not because of the Supreme Court, tariffs, seeds, or any other reason. It is a veggie because it's calorie density is most similar to veggies. Unless of course, you believe that not all calories are alike.
From what I've read, it's nothing to do with calorie density. Biologically, it's a fruit; but it's considered a vegetable because it's served as a vegetable rather than as a dessert, and because the Supreme Court said so in a case about the Tariff Act of 1883, which required a tax to be paid on imported vegetables but not on fruit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden
We shall leave for another day the question of whether that means that ketchup itself is a vegetable.
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