Potatoes fall under vegetables, their not a fruit due to the many ways we can eat them.

Where the hell you get THAT from O_O?

I\'m PRETTY sure the thing which distinguishes fruit from vegetables is whether or not they have possibly-visible seeds, which is why tomato is a fruit but everyone THINKS it\'s a vegetable. well, not anymore but they used to. I\'ve also noticed, that anything that grows on tress (if fruit or vegetable), is a fruit. Anything which grows UNDERground, is a vegetable. But if something grows on vines yet is above-ground (such as tomatoes), it can be either.

Other properties of fruits and vegetables are, fruits have some sort of sugar and vegetables have no nutrition except for pure vitamins (which is why they don\'t count for anything on the weightWatchers (points) diet). But this is not true for all. Squash, for insatnce, probablay has some nutrional value other then pure water and vitamins.

BUT this \"debate\" has nothing to do with fruit and vegetables. And really, how is it a dsebate at all? I\'ve seen SO many people say that fries aren\'t vegetables, and it\'s stupid, really. Nobody said they were healthy. But they\'re vegetables. (Assuming potatoes are. Who says they\'re not? Next paragraph.)

As for potatoes being a starch. So what? How does being a starch make it not a vegetable? \"Starch\" is NOT a food group. Bread is a starch. Does that make it not bread, or whole-grains?

If we ARE talking about food groups, then we STILL wouldn\'t be right in qualifying something on that, beacuse some foods, though scientifically classified as something else which would seem to belong to another food group, is lumped in to food group B because of certian properties. Oh and one more thing THE FOOD PYRAMID HAS BEEN DECLARED VOID ANYWAY. But Sage may have been saying that because potatoes are clasified as starch, they go into the food pyramid group with bread? I wouldn\'t really know, since I don\'t care. If that\'s what he meant, though, (I\'d say \"he may be right,\" but I know he is \'cause he knows what he\'s talking about. But you know what i mean by that intended commetn. As in, \"I may remember seeing mashed potatoes at the bottom\" or something-to-that-effect). It MAY be possible that potatoes are soemthing else, as I believe was it Met(?) said? But if they are, \"starch\" wouldn\'t be one of them, because that\'s just an ingredient. Or the way it breaks down. Or something.

And my lilacs aren\'t fruit either. Does that make them a vegetable? Fruit has no place in this topic. Or have I said that already?

And now there has been WAY too much discussion on french fries and what came up about them :P.

[Edited on 3/29/2006 by God]

Now why do I remember seeing this exact post before...?

I bet there was an \"Is the the tomato a fruit or a vegetable?\" thread, wasn\'t there :P?

Don\'t know what that has to do with Sage, but tomatoes are a fruit :P. Because I said so :P. And so did everyone else. There is no CULINARY involved, because the way or place we eat or cook something does not change what type of food it is. You are saying it\'s a FRUIT that is USED as a vegetable. ...Or something like that. But that doesn\'t change WHAT it is. ONly scientific classification can do that.