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Aug 29, 2017 02:11AM
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Ken wrote: "We come to berry Caesar..."Seize her, Caesar!
Ken wrote: "avocado is a fruit, thank you"So is a tomato, although Congress (although recognizing it botanically as a fruit) declared it commercially to be a vegetable some time in the 1930s or 'round thereabouts, because it is prepared and consumed as a vegetable, as opposed use in desserts or other sweet recipes that more commonly use fruits.
This whole conversation is getting fruity.
Woody [Guthrie, Woodpecker]
The seed and it's nutriant skin and covering is fruit. If other parts are edible those are vegetable parts (vegetation) Legislation may call it one thing and linguists another.Ohio State Buckeyes (nut type fruit of a Chestnut tree)
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