confusion????????????

WAIT A MIN!! my office gor gor TOLD ME LAST WEEK THAT TOMATO IS A VEGETABLE >> !!

KOREANS Thinking : 과일은 나무에서 나는 것이고 야채는 풀에서 나는 것이라고 알고 있어서

토마토, 수박, 딸기 같은게 맛은 달지만 야채로 분류하는 줄 알았거든요. <-- this is what i found from naver.com korean's google)
(fruits are anything u can get from the tree , while vegetables are anything u can get from the plants... so to them... watermelon, tomatoes , strawberries....... are all VEGETABLES!!! ROFL~)

when i told them no no no... tomatoes are fruits!!!!
but they said they learnt this since they're young~ ROFL!

so... to prove them i'm correct... here's wat i got from english google!!

"The term fruit has different meanings depending on context. In botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary—together with seeds—of a flowering plant. In many species, the fruit incorporates the ripened ovary and surrounding tissues. Fruits are the means by which flowering plants disseminate seeds. In cuisine, when discussing fruit as food, the term usually refers to just those plant fruits that are sweet and fleshy, examples of which include plum, apple and orange. However, a great many common vegetables, as well as nuts and grains, are the fruit of the plant species they come from. No one terminology really fits the enormous variety that is found among plant fruits. Botanical terminology for fruits is inexact and will remain so.” (Wikipedia.org)

“Vegetable is a culinary term. Its definition has no scientific value and is somewhat arbitrary and subjective. All parts of herbaceous plants eaten as food by humans, whole or in part, are generally considered vegetables. Mushrooms, though belonging to the biological kingdom, fungi, are also commonly considered vegetables…Since ‘vegetable’ is not a botanical term, there is no contradiction in referring to a plant part as a fruit while also being considered a vegetable. Given this general rule of thumb, vegetables can include leaves (lettuce), stems (asparagus), roots (carrots), flowers (broccoli), bulbs (garlic), seeds (peas and beans) and of course the botanical fruits like cucumbers, squash, pumpkins, and capsicums.” (Wikipedia.org)

so???

conclusion~
If you are speaking in a botanical, scientific context, then pumpkin, tomato, capsicum, cucumber, tomato and squash are FRUITS because they all have seeds.

but.............
The United States Supreme Court entered into this fascinating debate and gave a legal verdict on whether a tomato should be classified as a vegetable or a fruit. They decided unanimously, in Nix versus Hedden, 1883, that a tomato is a vegetable, even though it is a botanical fruit.

ROFL~ it's confusing~~~~~~~~~~~~

n someone told me .. banana is a herb~ it's not a fruit!!!!~~~~~~~~