pumpkin veggie or fruit

[KrokodylZKosmosu]

so on stardew valley pumpkin is considered a vegetable but in reality it is in fact a fruit. Does it affect the game? not really, but if you consider kegs, the multiplication would be ×3 not ×2. I'm just curious what you all think

same rhubarb is a veggie but in US it is legally a fruit idk why lmaoo

[iaregamertom]

Actually didnt know that about pumpkins, but good point. What about tomatoes?
Considered a fruit, the game gives you the choice to choose whether to class them as a fruit or a vegetable and I always choose vegetable .... why? Because """" you Demetrius you judgemental possessive """ ... thats why ... :-)
Plus I hate tomatoes IRL and I hate pumpkin IRL so I consider neither a fruit.
Does it answer your thread? Nope, but there you go ...

[KrokodylZKosmosu]

Originally posted by iaregamertom:

Actually didnt know that about pumpkins, but good point. What about tomatoes?
Considered a fruit, the game gives you the choice to choose whether to class them as a fruit or a vegetable and I always choose vegetable .... why? Because """" you Demetrius you judgemental possessive """ ... thats why ... :-)
Plus I hate tomatoes IRL and I hate pumpkin IRL so I consider neither a fruit.
Does it answer your thread? Nope, but there you go ...

actually both are fruits bc they have seeds in them. Yeah i guess most would say a veggie bc that's how ppl say most of the time, but something about tomato once happened that sudenlly everyone talked about it that its a fruit and more people know about it now, but about pumpkin? i learned today for example lmao!

but in game tomato is considered a fruit (on the wiki) but pumpkin is a veggie, so i just thought i'd throw it out there

[iaregamertom]

Yea its odd, as for rhubarb, ive never heard it classed as a fruit, and after some lazy googling it IS a vegetable but is mostly used as a fruit is used, I:E desserts, Jam (Jelly in the US) so I guess thats why the US class it as a fruit?
And as for Demetrius and his clinging over protective nature of Maru to which I was referring ... the fruit or veg one, Robin is right, nobody ever thinks tomatoes when being asked to get some fruit as Sedri pointed out lol

[thelaughingman]

Hey D, you can't fool me.

Also, let Maru be Maru, its weird.

[Buffmania]

Fruit and vegetable mean different things depending on the classification system. The question of "fruit or vegetable" is unlikely to pertain to the scientific system because vegetable is not a scientific term. In that case it would be inappropriate to use the scientific or botanical definition of fruit when talking about commerce or culinary usage.

[Dimensional Traveler]

Originally posted by KrokodylZKosmosu:

so on stardew valley pumpkin is considered a vegetable but in reality it is in fact a fruit. Does it affect the game? not really, but if you consider kegs, the multiplication would be ×3 not ×2. I'm just curious what you all think :marijaonlooker:

same rhubarb is a veggie but in US it is legally a fruit idk why lmaoo

Its the tomato argument all over again!!!

[Queen Droxxanna]

Tomato: a fruit that is eaten as a vegetable in salads and pasta dishes or in a sandwich. The main exception is Cherry or Grape tomatoes which I sometimes eat like grapes as a fruit snack.

Pumpkin: looks like a veggie when growing but is a fruit. Used mostly for Pumpkin pie like so many fruits we eat as pie. I have NEVER eaten pumpkin any other way. Now the thing is Squash is also considered a vegetable but is a fruit like pumpkin. Funny thing is I make squash in a casserole like a veggie and eat it as a veggie with my meal, even though it looks just like cooked pumpkin. The recipe I use with squash TASTES like candy and I will eat the leftovers cold like a dessert. In fact some people will substitute squash for pumpkin in pie if pumpkin is unavailable.

Now Rhubarb IS a vegetable or the stem of the rhubarb leaf. It too is served like a fruit in pies and goes great when combined with sweet strawberries, and make a nice jam too. No body that I know of eats rhubarb like a veggie. However, growing up my grandmother and I would eat raw rhubarb like candy, dipping it in sugar and crunching on it like you would celery. Yes you need the sugar as raw rhubarb is very sour.

[DissocialPersonality]

Originally posted by iaregamertom:

Actually didnt know that about pumpkins, but good point. What about tomatoes?
Considered a fruit, the game gives you the choice to choose whether to class them as a fruit or a vegetable and I always choose vegetable .... why? Because """" you Demetrius you judgemental possessive """ ... thats why ... :-)
Plus I hate tomatoes IRL and I hate pumpkin IRL so I consider neither a fruit.
Does it answer your thread? Nope, but there you go ...

i use a mod to marry robin and maru and make Big D leave stardew valley xD

[red255]

"but in reality it is in fact a fruit"

what reality is this?

I mean there is no scientific classification for vegetable and things like peppers and tomatoes are fruits scientifically.

according to oxford definition of vegetable:
a plant or part of a plant used as food, such as a cabbage, potato, carrot, or bean.

so we could just as easily be classifying all the crops as vegetables since they are all parts of a plant. that can be used as food.

wouldn't make us any less wrong. this isn't an arguement, this is I heard something i didn't understand and decided to use it publicly.

Scientifically they are all fruits, game wise the only difference is if they make jelly or pickles, or wine or juice in kegs.

you can't make tomato or pumpkin wine, ergo, they are vegetables.

[KrokodylZKosmosu]

Originally posted by red255:

"but in reality it is in fact a fruit"

what reality is this?

I mean there is no scientific classification for vegetable and things like peppers and tomatoes are fruits scientifically.

according to oxford definition of vegetable:
a plant or part of a plant used as food, such as a cabbage, potato, carrot, or bean.

so we could just as easily be classifying all the crops as vegetables since they are all parts of a plant. that can be used as food.

wouldn't make us any less wrong. this isn't an arguement, this is I heard something i didn't understand and decided to use it publicly.

Scientifically they are all fruits, game wise the only difference is if they make jelly or pickles, or wine or juice in kegs.

you can't make tomato or pumpkin wine, ergo, they are vegetables.

actually! YOU can make pumpkin wine, thats why i started this thread! i was just wondering what people would say. Yeah there is no sientific definition, but in botanical perspective it's a fruit (since you can classify a fruit by that it has seeds in it, and rhubarb lacks those so you can say it's a veggie). And so, out of curiosity i read that some expert of extenson service vegetable said that 'scientifically' speaking pumpkin is a fruit bc it starts from flower and anything that starts from flower is botanically a fruit. That's what ive found online, i have no knowlage about it soo i was just wondering

[Bob Van Gobbe]

Depends on if you're asking in a botanical sense or a culinary sense. Botanically they would be fruit, however it's whether or not they are sweet or savoury that determines if they're a fruit or veg in a culinary definition. As such a tomato would be both fruit and veg.

[Queen Droxxanna]

this whole issue led to a discussion with my son last night about what coconut is, the fact the peanuts are not actually nuts because they grow underground, where nuts grow on trees, And what is chocolate too? While the cocoa fruit has a shell and flesh, it is actually the seeds that we use to make chocolate.
Oh and I read that peaches are also technically defined as a nut as well. But who in the world eats the peach seed nuts??

[KrokodylZKosmosu]

Originally posted by Chipps McGee:

Depends on if you're asking in a botanical sense or a culinary sense. Botanically they would be fruit, however it's whether or not they are sweet or savoury that determines if they're a fruit or veg in a culinary definition. As such a tomato would be both fruit and veg.

but tomato in stardew is classified as fruit, thats why i wonder why pumpkin is not. It seems to me that they chose it in the botanical sense, so then i think pumpkin would also be fruit, though i have no idea if that's how they classified them

[philbe63]

I have made Tomato Wine...draw from that what you will. Tomato can go into the cask and become wine. Pumpkin should too. Pumpkin Ale comes to mind.

[KrokodylZKosmosu]

Originally posted by Queen Droxxanna:

this whole issue led to a discussion with my son last night about what coconut is, the fact the peanuts are not actually nuts because they grow underground, where nuts grow on trees, And what is chocolate too? While the cocoa fruit has a shell and flesh, it is actually the seeds that we use to make chocolate.
Oh and I read that peaches are also technically defined as a nut as well. But who in the world eats the peach seed nuts??

alright that is a LOT lmao. i heard about peanuts before, and what i know is that just they are seeds but yeah,they are not nuts. well, chocolate is processed cocoa, so i wouldn't think too much about chocolate since it's a product made of few things. And why would anyone define peach as a nut? Peach is a fruit since it has seeds inside and they start from flower so i guess these are two things that botanically make peach a fruit :)