Dexterity is dodging when someone throws a tomato at you for telling an unfunny joke at open mic night (and also successfully weaving your tomato plant into a cage or trellis).
Intelligence is knowing that tomatoes are fruit in the botanical sense, which has no bearing on how they are used in the kitchen and ignores the fact that “vegetable,” for instance, doesn’t mean anything botanically and so maybe we shouldn’t be using botanical terms in the kitchen and going “akshually, tomatoes are a fruit” doesn’t make you sound smart, it just makes you sound like a smarmy pedant.
I’d normally agree with you, but I imagine in a hypothetical world where food can be 3d printed and one of the filament types was fruit, it’d be pretty important to know whether or not tomato is a fruit if you’re planning on making a pizza.
In common language and culinary usage, fruit normally means the seed-associated fleshy structures (or produce) of plants that are typically sweet (or sour) and edible in the raw state, such as apples, bananas, grapes, lemons, oranges, and strawberries. In botanical usage, the term fruit includes many structures that are not commonly called as such in everyday language, such as nuts, bean pods, corn kernels, tomatoes, and wheat grains.
These are strange times for Fruit club. Strange times…
Food is mostly made of sugar, complex carbs, fat, and protein. You could probably make a pretty decent printer with a dozen cartridges, and fructose would be a reasonable choice for one of them. The pizza isn’t going to taste right without fructose in the tomato sauce.
Yeah it’s a joke but I’m getting into multi-material printing and printed food is actually a super interesting application.
You ever seen 3d prints from 20 years ago? They were low res goopy slop. Now we’re months away from off-the-shelf 8-toolhead printers. My newest printer uses dithering to blend 4 colors into nearly any color I could want. That tech can be used to blend flavors and textures rather than colors.
It’s a fascinating technology, with an active development base. I see no reason why the relatively near future won’t have actual 3d printed pizzas. With the right bed and nozzle heating, you can even get a nice crispy texture.
Botanically, yes. Not in common usage, though. Someone also tried pulling that regarding tariffs in the US and the US legal system said “nice try, but no”.
Nix v. Hedden, 149 U.S. 304 (1893), is a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court unanimously held that tomatoes should be classified as vegetables rather than fruits for purposes of tariffs, imports and customs. Justice Horace Gray delivered the opinion of the Court in holding that the Tariff Act of 1883 used the ordinary meaning of the words “fruit” and “vegetable”, instead of the technical botanical meaning.[1]
Yeah, “vegetables” are not a thing as far as botany is concerned. It is a purely culinary category.
The distinction between botanical and culinary definitions often causes confusion. Botanically, a fruit is defined by its origin as a mature ovary containing seeds, based on anatomical structure and developmental biology.
In contrast, culinary definitions are based on flavor, texture, and how a plant part is typically used in meals. Sweet or tart plant products are generally considered culinary fruits, while savory plant parts are classified as culinary vegetables. This explains why many botanical fruits are commonly treated as culinary vegetables. Tomatoes, for example, are botanical fruits because they develop from a flower’s ovary and contain seeds, but their savory flavor leads them to be used as a vegetable in cooking. Cucumbers, peppers, squash, and eggplants are other botanical fruits frequently used as culinary vegetables.
Culinary classifications make no sense to me. Cucumbers are melons that don’t have as thick of an outside. They grow the same, flavour can end up the same, flesh can be the same.
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Tomato is a fruit.
Intelligence is knowing tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put tomato in a fruit salad.
Charisma is selling a fruit salad with tomatoes as “salsa”
Constitution is eating some after the opened container has been sitting in the fridge for over a month.
Dexterity is dodging when someone throws a tomato at you for telling an unfunny joke at open mic night (and also successfully weaving your tomato plant into a cage or trellis).
Strength is throwing a rotten tomato hard enough to explode on impact.
Rule of cool is being able to hit the moon with a tomato on a natural 20
Or is that low Wisdom?
Dude some of us like salsa
I never meant to imply there was!
You ever had peach salsa my dude? Or Chutney? The sky’s the limit.
Mango salsa gets my vote
Intelligence is knowing that tomatoes are fruit in the botanical sense, which has no bearing on how they are used in the kitchen and ignores the fact that “vegetable,” for instance, doesn’t mean anything botanically and so maybe we shouldn’t be using botanical terms in the kitchen and going “akshually, tomatoes are a fruit” doesn’t make you sound smart, it just makes you sound like a smarmy pedant.
I’d normally agree with you, but I imagine in a hypothetical world where food can be 3d printed and one of the filament types was fruit, it’d be pretty important to know whether or not tomato is a fruit if you’re planning on making a pizza.
Ok grok
Excuse me? What the fuck does Musk’s nazibot have to do with what I said?
Intelligence is knowing Pineapple is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing it belongs on pizza.
Your pizza.
Not my pizza.
Found the guy not living in a communist country.
Could you imagine having to share our pizza with everyone in the country when you get one?
No wonder communists always look so miserable.
Amchovies
Well those actually belong on pizza
If you’ve had fresh tomatoes that ripened on the plant you KNOW they can swing both ways.
You say that like I wouldn’t eat the fuck out of a fruit salad with good tomatoes
Tomatoes do have a wide variety of cultivars, some of which have considerably-higher sugar content.
searches
https://growingfruit.org/t/what-are-the-sweetest-tomatoes-highest-brix-lowest-acid-possible/69110
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/64b974963cb8f079e9f7c83f/t/652f1cf07f8b2f125c06fd7b/1697586417068/BrixRefractiveIndNologo.jpg
Scientifically, yes. Culinarily, no
so is wheat
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit
These are strange times for Fruit club. Strange times…
I thought wheat was a grain?
Wheat seeds are apparently called wheat berrys.
Grains are fruits
All seeds are fruits, right?
Fruits contain seeds
Apparently it is both
AN OTTER??? HERE??? AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!
pets the cute mod
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I looked for a photo of a sea otter with fruit, but all I got was AI slop. So here is one enjoying some crunchy
If you are using google type before:2020, after your search query, to remove ai. Idk about other search engines.
What a scrungy otter 😄
Thank you for the tip, I’ll try to remember that one
We don’t usually eat the wheat’s fruit. Instead we use expensive machines to get every last of it away from the grain.
The joke would have worked just fine had it said “Refill Octopus Cartridge” or literally any of a thousand other food options.
Food is mostly made of sugar, complex carbs, fat, and protein. You could probably make a pretty decent printer with a dozen cartridges, and fructose would be a reasonable choice for one of them. The pizza isn’t going to taste right without fructose in the tomato sauce.
Yeah it’s a joke but I’m getting into multi-material printing and printed food is actually a super interesting application.
Umami cartridge low.
“What the fuck is an umami?”
I look at it all as bullshit.
But really to me it’s how your body responds to something with saliva.
Something salty you salivate, sour you salivate, umami you salivate but how quickly, how much, and how long vary based upon the sensation.
Umami basically means you salivate slowly for a long time which helps your stomach get ready to break down proteins apparently.
“here is your pizza shaped protein mush”
You ever seen 3d prints from 20 years ago? They were low res goopy slop. Now we’re months away from off-the-shelf 8-toolhead printers. My newest printer uses dithering to blend 4 colors into nearly any color I could want. That tech can be used to blend flavors and textures rather than colors.
It’s a fascinating technology, with an active development base. I see no reason why the relatively near future won’t have actual 3d printed pizzas. With the right bed and nozzle heating, you can even get a nice crispy texture.
imagine resin printing, but with flavours.
oh my microplastics fuck it tastes too good
Going for the ink pun, I see you
Pizza is a vegetable
I had a feeling this is a USA thing, and lo and behold - congress says pizza and french fries count as vegetables.
Fryvegetable thefriesvegetables invegetablefryoilBotanically, yes. Not in common usage, though. Someone also tried pulling that regarding tariffs in the US and the US legal system said “nice try, but no”.
searches
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden
Yeah, “vegetables” are not a thing as far as botany is concerned. It is a purely culinary category.
https://biologyinsights.com/the-botanical-classification-of-fruits/
Culinary classifications make no sense to me. Cucumbers are melons that don’t have as thick of an outside. They grow the same, flavour can end up the same, flesh can be the same.
Eat them room temp, cold whatever.
Eggplant is a berry
Strawberries are nuts.