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[-] Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 8 months ago

I don't think vegetable sounds right either. No one crushes up broccoli or carrots to make sauce for pizza and you don't add tomatoes to your roast veggies.

[-] poopsmith@lemmy.world 25 points 8 months ago

People put carrots in pizza sauce, like Rao's: https://www.raos.com/products/pizza-sauce

And roasted tomatoes are great with some peppers and onions.

[-] 0ops@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago
[-] poopsmith@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Yup, but also a vegetable.

[-] occhineri@feddit.de 2 points 8 months ago

Yeah, thanks nature for not adequately distinguishing between fruits and vegetables by cooking techniques!

Sometimes, you can be such a cunt, nature.

[-] Pepsi@kbin.social 14 points 8 months ago
[-] Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 months ago

I love playing around with recipes so have indeed made broc and carrot sauces, but this is kind of all about what feels right to say. And I think that there's a lot of cases where it feels wrong to describe tomato as a vegetable. Kind of how I'd feel odd calling lettuce a vegetable.

[-] 0ops@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Okay but if someone offered me a pizza with broccoli or carrot sauce I'd have to politely, but firmly refuse

[-] fristislurper@feddit.nl 7 points 8 months ago

Your definition of vegetable is "cannot be used as base for pizza sauce"? Oddly specific.

[-] Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 8 months ago

The whole basis for calling it a vegetable is "I don't want to call it a fruit" so let's not get too pedantic here.

[-] 0ops@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Not sure where I said that, I was referring to nachorella's comment up thread. If you want to know my definition, it's pretty much aligned with the science definition. Fruits: the parts of the plant containing seeds (with the exception of pods). Vegetables: the rest of the plant (including pods)

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