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Tomatoes
Why are they red?
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I dunno... beta carotene?
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Why are you Emerald?
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Because nobody would eat brown salsa.
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Tomatoes have the power to kill me.
True story.
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So does a machete, and it's red too. Just coincidence?
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Sadly so. My little brother's weapon of choice while we were growing up was a bottle of ketchup!
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Tomatoes are red
Roses are too
I love Glitch
And so do you
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Why are tomatoes red?
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Because ice cream doesn't come in glass jars.
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They are related to potatoes, tobacco and Deadly Nightshade. Solanaceae (Nightshade) family.
Some fill you, some kill you, some fall out of the burger bun and into your lap no matter how careful you are.
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The larger question is, since tomatoes are a fruit, why can't we make them from cherries?
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Crashtestpilot, you just made my head explode.
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Tomatoes are red because they got covered by all the blood in Mada Tamaha.
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Nah, that's just tomato juice.
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If tomatoes are fruit, then why is it called V8, not V7F1?
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Botanically, a tomato is a fruit: the ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant. However, the tomato has a much lower sugar content than other fruits, and is therefore not as sweet. Typically served as part of a salad or main course of a meal, rather than as dessert, it is considered a vegetable for most culinary purposes. One exception is that tomatoes are treated as a fruit in home canning practices: they are acidic enough to be processed in a water bath rather than a pressure cooker as "vegetables" require. Tomatoes are not the only foodstuff with this ambiguity: eggplants, cucumbers, and squashes of all kinds (such as zucchini and pumpkins) are all botanically fruits, yet cooked as vegetables.
So, we should also be able to make eggplants, cukes, zukes, and (zilloween!) pumpkins out of cherries.
Let's see some more heads a'splode!
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"If tomatoes are fruit, then why is it called V8, not V7F1?" +1000000000 hahahahaha
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*Adds to contacts*
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crash , you rock ;) xoxo !
and yes , fruit or veggie deliberations does make my head hurt .. :D
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sub-note -- fried GREEN tomatoes are yummy... so , those aren't red ..... yet .
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I assume because it has no chloroplasts and other chemicals.
And tomatoes are fruit because the part you eat contains the seeds.
Same with cucumbers and zucchinis and pumpkins.
@CrashTestPilot You are absolutely right! Tomatoes should be made from Fruit changers because they are fruit.
