Demetrius 6 Heart Event

[Shona (vincit omnia veritas)]

You really bring the discussion if a tomato is a fruit or vegetable?

I know the answer but this answer is not in the game so i choose vegetable because technically a tomato is the fruit of the tomato plant, but it's used as a vegetable in cooking.

And thats the answer i waited for but i only got "vegetable" or "fruit" so neither of both is the correct answer for the question.

[PhilkIced]

It is a fruit, biology couldn't care less about cooking definitions honestly.

[AvatarMan]

Which isn't fair because the game refers to the Tomato as a Vegetable, probably because it's for cooking.

[Saint Landwalker]

"Vegetable" is not a biological category. From a purely scientific perspective, there is no such thing as a vegetable.

[Skovde]

A Vegetable can be a fruit. Peas/Corn are seeds, Tomatoes/Squash are fruit, Potatoes are tubers, Carrots are roots, Brocolli/Cauliflower are stems/florets etc.

[DasaKamov]

Originally posted by Landwalker04:

From a purely scientific perspective, there is no such thing as a vegetable.

Fortunately, most of real life is not viewed from a purely scientific perspective. :)

[Saint Landwalker]

Originally posted by DasaKamov:

Originally posted by Landwalker04:

From a purely scientific perspective, there is no such thing as a vegetable.

Fortunately, most of real life is not viewed from a purely scientific perspective. :)

Unfortunately for Demetrius, who doesn't view the world through anything but.

(And unfortunately for Robin, who has to live with it.)

[PhilkIced]

Originally posted by DasaKamov:

Originally posted by Landwalker04:

From a purely scientific perspective, there is no such thing as a vegetable.

Fortunately, most of real life is not viewed from a purely scientific perspective. :)

But he's not asking about real life, he's asking what should he answer when a scientist asks him if tomatoes are a fruit or a vegetable.

[EleventhStar]

Originally posted by Landwalker04:

Originally posted by DasaKamov:

Fortunately, most of real life is not viewed from a purely scientific perspective. :)

Unfortunately for Demetrius, who doesn't view the world through anything but.

Eh he acts more like an autistic person who has to take everything literal in that scene then a scientist. Dialog was a bit heavy handed there.

[DasaKamov]

Originally posted by Landwalker04:

Unfortunately for Demetrius, who doesn't view the world through anything but.

(And unfortunately for Robin, who has to live with it.)

Ha, touché.

Originally posted by Philkiced:

But he's not asking about real life, he's asking what should he answer when a scientist asks him if tomatoes are a fruit or a vegetable.

Actually, the OP (if I understood them correctly) was saying that the game answer choices were wrong, since a tomato is scientifically neither fruit nor vegetable.

[PhilkIced]

Originally posted by DasaKamov:

Actually, the OP (if I understood them correctly) was saying that the game answer choices were wrong, since a tomato is scientifically neither fruit nor vegetable.

In this case I misunderstood the OP, his wording is a little confusing to me. He's wrong as scientifically tomatoes are fruits.

[EleventhStar]

Originally posted by DasaKamov:

Actually, the OP (if I understood them correctly) was saying that the game answer choices were wrong, since a tomato is scientifically neither fruit nor vegetable.

Let's not pretend this is about science though, it's about a example that many people know about.

In reality lots of foods are classified differently culinary vs botanically, but you never hear anyone about those.

[Raxalon]

Come on, let's be real. Demetrius was purposefully annoying Robin, probably to show off his superior intellect with the whole "oh, I'm a scientist so I misunderstand the things normal people say" shtick.

[Shona (vincit omnia veritas)]

Originally posted by PhilkIced:

In this case I misunderstood the OP, his wording is a little confusing to me. He's wrong as scientifically tomatoes are fruits.

"Her" ;)

And what is so confusing?

Quote: "because technically a tomato is the fruit of the tomato plant, but it's used as a vegetable in cooking."

So as i wrote neither of both answers is the correct one because a tomato is both.

Originally posted by Raxalon:

Come on, let's be real. Demetrius was purposefully annoying Robin, probably to show off his superior intellect with the whole "oh, I'm a scientist so I misunderstand the things normal people say" shtick.

If he is annoying Robin then i want as a farmer in the game the answer i wrote because a farmer knows what a tomato is and also if you had a good school education yoiu should know it.

So you don't need to be a scientist to know the answer but if the answer is not available what is the answer then?

[Saint Landwalker]

Judging by the Wiki's description of this event, since somehow it never triggered for me:

Robin wants Demetrius to go get "fruit."
Demetrius comes back with tomatoes, and claims he's right, because tomatoes are fruit, and so his "mistake" was reasonable.

Verdict: Demetrius is right in that tomatoes are fruit. He is not right that his "mistake" is reasonable, because anyone who was told to "go get some fruit" would not come back with tomatoes. Yes, everyone knows tomatoes are fruits. But everyone also knows what the connotation is when "fruit" is used in a non-explicitly-tomato sentence. Demetrius is being a smartass and deserves to have a mega bomb shoved down his throat so that the player can marry Robin.

[AvatarMan]

Originally posted by Landwalker04:

Demetrius is being a smartass and deserves to have a mega bomb shoved down his throat so that the player can marry Robin.

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