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answer, without "googling": cucumber...fruit (or veg)?

My mind is blown and I feel like this is probably shameful.

I want to say veg, but I'm not entirely sure.  Is it like a tomato where it seems like a veg, but is actually a fruit?

AM I'M TRIPPING?

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Re: answer, without "googling": cucumber...fruit (or veg)?

  • I googled and found the answer!  My hunch that it might be like a tomato and an undercover fruit was correct.

    Having an enclosed seed and developing from a flower, botanically speaking, cucumbers are classified as fruits. However, much like tomatoes and squash they are usually perceived, prepared and eaten as vegetables.[1]

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  • I knew this only because Brett is convinced that cucumbers and watermelons are actually two versions of  the same plant and it's all just some sort of hoax.  What that hoax is trying to accomplish, he hasn't figured out yet.

    He has a point though.  A cucumber tastes a lot like the part of the watermelon that's really close to the rind.


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  • Cucumbers, like tomatoes, are disgusting, so I am not surprised that they are both lying liars.
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  • I'll further blow your mind - eggplant is actually a berry.
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  • OK, Cordelia.
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  • I just ate a cucumber and tomato salad.  I was like, oh good I got some veggies, except a tomato is a fruit and wait....is a cucumber a vegetable?
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  • imageNovemberrocks:
    I'll further blow your mind - eggplant is actually a berry.

    I disagree with science.  Eggplant should be classified as satan's food.  Grossy gross gross.

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  • All these vegetables are turning into fruits.  I blame it on all the people naming their little girls boy names.
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  • imageVinny2008:

    imageNovemberrocks:
    I'll further blow your mind - eggplant is actually a berry.

    I disagree with science.  Eggplant should be classified as satan's food.  Grossy gross gross.

    Agreed. All lying liar foods are gross, it seems.

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  • My parents had an enormous cucumber that looked like a watermelon in their garden this weekend, so there could be something to Mr SB's theory.

  • wait, what makes eggplant a berry?  What about beans?

    I have a fruit garden?

     

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  • liar foods are delicious
  • Your title punctuation is misleading. God I hate you.
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  • I keep reading "veg" as "vag." Let's hate her together.
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  • I changed it for you!  HTH!
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  • Artichokes are actually thistle flowers. Tomatoes are from the nightshade family so their leaves and green fruit are mildly poisonous. Squash and melons are also from the same family which might be why they both taste kinda gross to me in a similar way. And apple seeds contain cyanide. 

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  • This is why I eat strictly processed foods. Nature is dangerous, yo.
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  • imageSarahBethBR:

    I knew this only because Brett is convinced that cucumbers and watermelons are actually two versions of  the same plant and it's all just some sort of hoax.  What that hoax is trying to accomplish, he hasn't figured out yet.

    He has a point though.  A cucumber tastes a lot like the part of the watermelon that's really close to the rind.

    Brett is pretty much correct. Cucumbers and watermelons are from the same plant family (that family being Cucurbitaceae, if you must know) - as are squash and canteloupe. They all have very similar growth habits and fruit. Yes, I know this makes me a geek.

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  • You've come to the right place.

    Did you study horticulture or do you just enjoy plant geekery? 

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    "The meek shall inherit the earth" isn't about children. It's about deer. We're all going to get messed the fuckup by a bunch of cloned super-deer.- samfish2bcrab

    Sometimes I wonder if scientists have never seen a sci-fi movie before. "Oh yes, let's create a super species of deer. NOTHING COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG." I wonder if State Farm offers a Zombie Deer Attack policy. -CaliopeSpidrman
  • imagesalimoo:
    Cucumbers, like tomatoes, are disgusting, so I am not surprised that they are both lying liars.

    omg .. cucumbers are so delightful and unoffensive! What could you possibly have against a cucumber?!

     

    Yes.. this is the thread I decided to come out in. fuuck you  you judgey whores.

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  • imagepdxmouse:

    You've come to the right place.

    Did you study horticulture or do you just enjoy plant geekery? 

    Technically, I studied weeds (not WEED, weeds), but plants are plants, right? I love plants and I love food so I choose to work in agriculture.

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