Fruit or Vegetable?

[Judicael]

"How would you classify a tomato?"

Anyone else wish there was a third option that satisfies both Robin and Demetrius?

"Are we talking botanically or culinary? Botanically it's a fruit, culinary it has the properties of a vegetable. So an argument could be made for both."

 

[Maher]

"How would you classify a tomato?"

Anyone else wish there was a third option that satisfies both Robin and Demetrius?

"Are we talking botanically or culinary? Botanically it's a fruit, culinary it has the properties of a vegetable. So an argument could be made for both."

Here's goat cheese and kale. It will make lovely salad with whatever Demetrius brought home!

 

[stardew_luv]

"How would you classify a tomato?"

Anyone else wish there was a third option that satisfies both Robin and Demetrius?

"Are we talking botanically or culinary? Botanically it's a fruit, culinary it has the properties of a vegetable. So an argument could be made for both."

Well believe it or not many vegetables are actually fruits, so whoever organized them in the first place didn’t know what they were doing so I blame the original classifiers of these healthy edibles. Since we’ve been innocently deceived all of these years I say who the heck cares and label it whatever you think it should be called. I just press skip through any cutscene involving Stardew couples. I moved into the valley (or was gagged, bagged, dragged, and thrown into and off of the bus whichever way you look at it) to be a farmer not a couples counselor. If I was a counselor I’d be rich just moving to Stardew. Cha Ching!

 

[SergeantPineapple]

Pumpkins are fruits too iirc. Team Demetrius on this one chief. As a self-identified nerd, I don’t hate Demetrius like everyone else seems to cuz I think I see too much of myself in him.

 

[SergeantPineapple]

 

[SergeantPineapple]

Fruit is from the ovary of the plant, vegetables are from other parts like vine or leaf.

 

[FilthyGorilla]

It’s botanically a fruit (though therefore also botanically a vegetable)

culinarily it’s generally used as a vegetable though, same as something like pumpkins, eggplant which are botanically fruit but aren’t used as one would generally eat or prepare fruit

 

[Mike Taku]

The tomato is both a botanical fruit and a culinary vegetable, making it a fascinating hybrid of classification. Botanically, it forms from a flower's ovary and contains seeds, but its savoury taste and role in cooking align it with vegetables a rare dual identity that satisfies both science and the kitchen.

 

[REtroGeekery]

Does anyone else have their farmer choose vegetable every time because the game clearly identifies tomatoes as vegetables?

Also, I'm never sure I'd the farmer is supposed to have heard the scene shown before they enter. In the scene with Abigail and Caroline arguing, the game makes sure you see the farmer listening. The scene with Emily and Haley arguing has them fill in the farmer. Both scenes where you're expected to "help" with Robin and Demetrius are set up so it looks like your farmer has no idea what they're arguing about.

 

[MogBeoulve]

Does anyone else have their farmer choose vegetable every time because the game clearly identifies tomatoes as vegetables?

Also, I'm never sure I'd the farmer is supposed to have heard the scene shown before they enter. In the scene with Abigail and Caroline arguing, the game makes sure you see the farmer listening. The scene with Emily and Haley arguing has them fill in the farmer. Both scenes where you're expected to "help" with Robin and Demetrius are set up so it looks like your farmer has no idea what they're arguing about.

Yes! The game says vegetable, so my farmer says vegetable. They can read!

Personally, I take the stance that there is no true scientific definition of vegetable, just like for trees and fish. Demetrius ought to be arguing that vegetables don't exist, not that tomatoes are not vegetables. So ultimately, that is why I always support Robin. If you are using the word vegetable, you've already thrown science out of the picture.

 

[Lew Zealand]

First off, I choose Robin so it's whatever she says.

But as a former plant biologist, tomatoes are vegetables because in the end language is what defines our interaction on this planet and language is not static, e.g.: rizz, drip, etc. Words are defined by how we use them and that changes over time. And the bigger that 'we' becomes, the stronger that new definition becomes.

So tomatoes are a vegetable because as a whole, we say they are. Tomatoes are biologically a fruit and that's perfect for scientific description but not for everyday casual use.

 

[Maher]

Robin: Is a Tomato a fruit or a Vegetable?!?!
Farmer: I can haz shed plz?

 

[Old Man Tab]

"How would you classify a tomato?"

Anyone else wish there was a third option that satisfies both Robin and Demetrius?

"Are we talking botanically or culinary? Botanically it's a fruit, culinary it has the properties of a vegetable. So an argument could be made for both."

A tomato is a fruit

But i dont know why the game says its a vegetable


Makes you wonder

 

[LRangerR]

Demetrius ought to be arguing that vegetables don't exist...

Birds don't exist. That's why we can't eat our chickens

 

[MogBeoulve]

Birds don't exist. That's why we can't eat our chickens

omg, the void chicken is a shadow chicken! That's why Krobus likes their eggs and mayonnaise!

By the way, I LOVE his new line when he receives void mayo. He's so happy!

 

[Maher]

By the way, I LOVE his new line when he receives void mayo. He's so happy!

But oh, the visual! I give him his void mayo on Fridays now.

 

[LRangerR]

omg, the void chicken is a shadow chicken! That's why Krobus likes their eggs and mayonnaise!

By the way, I LOVE his new line when he receives void mayo. He's so happy!

Does it taste like shadow?