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Tomatoes. The really little ones - the nice sweet ones, not the economy ones. No, wait. SunKitten tells me tomatoes are fruit. But fruit are... fruit. Sweet things. Like apples and pears, and grapefruit... no, grapefruit's bitter and sour. And tomatoes can be sweet. And so can carrots. Does this mean carrots are fruit? Waaaah! Brainmelt! - MoonShadow

: MoonShadow, you consider yourself a carnivore I believe? Then you need this guide to remember what is what:

Meat is food.
Vegetables are what food eats.
Fruit are vegetables that fool you by tasting good.
Mushrooms are what grow on vegetables after food has finished with it.

HTH, MikeJeggo

: This is all too confusing for this poor carnivore. I'll stick to sausages, I think.. - MoonShadow

Just to really confuse the issue, bananas aren't fruit. They're a herb.

: I think you may be a little confused. The banana palm is a herbaceous plant, yes (as opposed to a tree, the biological difference being the presence of woody material in the stem). But the banana fruit is certainly the fruit of that plant, being a seed-carrying organ developed from the ovaries of the flower. Commercial bananas are sterile, the seeds are vestigial specks, but I have had wild bananas in Thailand that have seeds as large as small peas in them --Mjb67

And to elaborate - herbs are what you put on top of food to make it look pretty. Or in the case of bananas, to make it look silly. No eat herb, just for looks.

: A herb is any plant lacking a woody stem. Lettuce, carrot, deadly nightshade, for example. Deadly nightshade berries are a fruit, but I advise against checking to see if they taste nice. --Mjb67

Aren't bananas actually, biologically, a type of fish?

: Well, maybe herbs are all a kind of fish. Or vice versa.

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