Is pumpkin fruit?

I was killing ants and they were dropping pumpkins

Well duh.
It's a squash ain't it?

Well is strawberry cheesecake fruit?

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Originally Posted by Rokien

Well is strawberry cheesecake fruit?

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It...has fruit in it.

Is strawberry a berry?

Its a straaaw

I'm so confused right now. . .

Ants should drop bacon.

pumpkin has seeds, it's a fruit

I heard somewhere that Pumpkin is a vegetable. Maybe it's a hybrid!

Also props to OP to making random thread!

In the real world, to a botanist a pumpkin is a fruit, while to a culinarian it is treated as a vegetable.

Soo nobody answered what is strawberry cheesecake!?

Since we are on the subject, anything with seeds is a fruit. Bananas are fruits without seeds, because they are clones. Check it out, it's very interesting.

They are worried about there not being genetic variation in the world's banana population to survive a super-disease if one should attack.

I'm just wondering how long until this thread is locked.

Don't use the "L" word in here, unless it's lemon... or legume.

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Originally Posted by Deltara

Don't use the "L" word in here, unless it's lemon... or legume.

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K /munches on sour creme and onion chips

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Originally Posted by EdenArchangel

In the real world, to a botanist a pumpkin is a fruit, while to a culinarian it is treated as a vegetable.

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what?

there can be only one. Pumpkin is a fruit.

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Originally Posted by Baxter

what?

there can be only one. Pumpkin is a fruit.

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Many Fruits are treated as veggies.

Like Cucumbers, which are in the same family as squash (cucurbits)

A cucurbit is also the lower portion of an Alembic... tho I don't know how Alchemists view Pumpkins.

Bananas are berries. *Fact*

Also, this...

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Does_a_ban...ify_as_a_berry

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Originally Posted by Deltara

Also, this...

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Does_a_ban...ify_as_a_berry

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How about this one?

And i made it to 50 posts! Yes!

I'd like to thank all fruits and vegetables, bananas and other berries for making this possible.

So, it's weird that ants drop pumpkins. But then again, ants can carry many times their body weight, and the ants in XIV are really big ants, so I guess they could carry around a lot of those pumpkins. The question is, where did they get them, and why do they love pumpkins so much? Is this some kind of insidious plot? Are the ants planning on summoning some kind of great pumpkin primal? Maybe on Halloween? Ooh, spooky.

That would be amazing O.o

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So, it's weird that ants drop pumpkins. But then again, ants can carry many times their body weight, and the ants in XIV are really big ants, so I guess they could carry around a lot of those pumpkins.

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Both Bill Nye and The Magic School Bus have ruined this for me with their damn science and facts.

think pumpkin is in the squash family. on a weird note i love eating pumpkin alot. outside the obvious pumpkin pie, i make it into a soup and also fry it.. very yums. think people to used to the thought they are just for decorations outside on Halloween lol. taste way better then real squash to me. :)

From what I recall, a fruit is a plant part that develops from a fertilised flower and contains seeds held within some kind of pulp/flesh. In terms of human reproduction, a fruit is basically a plant placenta, meant to provide moisture and nutrients for the seeds to germinate and grow into plants. Some fruits have additional properties in the cases where the seeds require specific conditions to grow (i.e. they attract a certain kind of bird who eats the fruit and emits the seeds in a far off location, or they attract other animals to feed on them as the seed cases require the digestive acids of that creature to weaken the shell so the seed can grow).

Fruits are then sub-classed into different groups. The most common fruits are berries, which are defined as fruits usually containing more than one seed contained in flesh derived form a single flower ovary. So apples, watermelon, tomatoes and pumkpkins are all berries. Stone fruits like plums, peaches and mangos that contain only one seed are a sub-class of berry. Citris also fall into a sub-class due to something about having a thick indedible skin. Blueberries and gooseberries are berries, but a lot of the other fruits that we call berries aren't berries. Things like raspberries, blackberries and mullberries are actually a different kind of fruit as they consists of lots of seeds held singly within pockets of juice grouped together to make the fruit. Then there are 'false' berries like bananas and strawberries. Strawberries are not normal berries, nor are they fruits like blackberries as they contain the 'seeds' on the outside. Normally a fruit is made when the ovary inside the flower is fertilised with pollen and each ovary makes one fruit. With a strawberry what we take for seeds on the outside are atually the plants ovaries each one containing a seed. It is a fruit, just kind of in its own class. The banana is also a unique berry sometimes called a false berry depending on how you class fruits as they don't grow from a tree or vine, but a herb, and its flowering/ovary structure is different to standard fruit flowers.


... FML. Why the hell do i remember all this random junk that has no use, but my memory fails me when it comes to simple everyday things.

eh??? for real??? are you kidding me??? Isn't pumpkin a vegetable?

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Originally Posted by Mirana

eh??? for real??? are you kidding me??? Isn't pumpkin a vegetable?

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just as much as a tomato is a vegetable

There are 2 'classifications'

Botanically - Pumpkin is a Fruit
Cullinarily - Pumpkin is a Vegetable.

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just as much as a tomato is a vegetable

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I don't really get this.
Tomato has always screamed fruit to me.
It's red, juicy and sweet. What's so vegetable about that?

Tomatoes are used in a lot of savoury dishes which is why it, like pumpkins are sometimes called vegetables. Both can be used to make sweet dishes, but are labeled vegetables in common culture.

There is a saying:
Knowledge is knowing a tomato/pumpkin is a Fruit
Widsom is knowing not to put it into a fruit salad.

Well, can you make tomato pie?

I think the real test to see if something is a fruit is: Do you make pie with it?

What about Fish pie? Is fish a fruit or vegetable? Maybe if you are a fishocrite vegitarian ...

And Shepherd's Pie. Are sheep herders fruit?

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Well, can you make tomato pie?

I think the real test to see if something is a fruit is: Do you make pie with it?

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Pizza pie.

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Originally Posted by Gramul

I don't really get this.
Tomato has always screamed fruit to me.
It's red, juicy and sweet. What's so vegetable about that?

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ya exactly, I was using it as an example of other fruit people think is a vegetable

Wait... I think i eat tomato pies when I go mining on FFXIV... >.>

not to derail the subject of pumpkin but has anyone tried this fruit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synsepalum_dulcificum
it is also known as the miracle fruit. literally watched a states of tara episode this week with it and was like dang i need to try this out. not have yet but need to order some and it is actually pretty expensive. gonna probably buy a bunch and have a party with it and lots of foods that it makes taste good lol.

but basically if not check link it turns all bitter and sour foods into tasting sweet and good cause it latches something onto your tongue that does something with the acids in those foods that make it so they taste different. sounds like a fun time to try out with every sour and bitter food you can get your hands on and some beers!

"Goofy can't be a dog, he wears a hat and drives a car!"

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Originally Posted by Magnesium02

There are 2 'classifications'

Botanically - Pumpkin is a Fruit
Cullinarily - Pumpkin is a Vegetable.

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culinarians don't make classifications, they cook. Pumpkin is a fruit. bananas are infertile fruits, just like breadfruit.