From a biological standpoint, we don't classify things as vegetables. From a culinary standpoint, we do
Stop trying to apply biological concepts to my dinner
this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2025
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We all know the story of Newton sitting under apple vine, right?
On the other hand tomatoes and potatoes are the same family. You can even graft a tomato plant on top of a potato plant.
My initial read of this was, "tornadoes and potatoes" and I prefer that read now.
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Does this person know nothing.
“This has been today’s lesson in talking about politics on Lemmy”
That counterargument is stupid. Apples have been known since ancient times (in the old world) while potatoes had to be imported from the new world. If they were the same, then their common ancestor would have to have traveled with the first Africans to leave for the Americas way before the invention of agriculture 10000BC.
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