I need to know the difference between a fruit and a vegetable. My friend and I have a bet going. He thinks that a fruit is anything with a seed. That means anything without seeds are vegetables. I disagree.
However, I do think it has something to do with the seeds. When I looked it up on the net it had too many long scientific words. And I have a feeling that the person was using those long scientific words to make it sound like he knows what he’s talking about, whereas no one really does.
Doesn’t [b]anyone[/b] know what a fruit is?!?!?
They’re all vegitables. Can you think of a single fruit that isn’t a seed? Or a single argument that isn’t all about symantecs?
Generaly, you will find that vegitables engage in far more arguments than fruits (which just wana have a good time).
-C
Pronunciation: 'früt
Function: noun
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from Latin fructus fruit, use, from frui to enjoy, have the use of – more at BROOK
Date: 12th century
1 a : a product of plant growth (as grain, vegetables, or cotton) <the fruits of the field> b (1) : the usually edible reproductive body of a seed plant; especially : one having a sweet pulp associated with the seed <the fruit of the tree> (2) : a succulent plant part (as the petioles of a rhubarb plant) used chiefly in a dessert or sweet course c : a dish, quantity, or diet of fruits <live on fruit> d : a product of fertilization in a plant with its modified envelopes or appendages; specifically : the ripened ovary of a seed plant and its contents
blaw, blaw, blaw, I’m right, you’re wrong, blaw, blaw, blaw…
A fruit is anything with a seed in it, so a tomato is a fruit etc, looks like your friend won the bet.
cool
like the quote
“Half the Bike…Twice the MAN!”
but i prefer “Half the Bike…Twice the WOMAN!”
Paging Mr Blackwood. Telegram for Mr Blackwood:
Call any vegetable
Call it by name
You’ve gotta call one today
When you get off the train
Call any vegetable
And the chances are good
The vegetable will respond to you
Call any vegetable
Pick up your phone
Think of a vegetable
Lonely at home
Call any vegetable
And the chances are good
The vegetable will respond to you
No one will know
If you don’t want to let them know
No one will know
’less it’s you that might tell them so
Call and they’ll come to you
Smiling and covered with dew
Vegetables dream of responding to you
Standing there shiny and proud by your side
Holding your joint while the neighbors decide
Why is a vegetable something to hide?
Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ
I looked up fruit and vegetable in the dictionary just last night. It said something like a fruit does have to have a seed, but a vegetable doesn’t necessarily not have a seed. So my friend isn’t right, but neither am I. Interesting.
I remember once being told that the difference is where the fruit grows, i.e. if it grows above the earth it is a fruit, if it grows below the earth it is a vegetable, which sort of comes in with the seed theory. But I never was very good at that sort of stuff.
Phil
Green peppers grow above the ground and have seeds. 
I usually just go by this: If my kid will eat it, it’s a fruit. If not, it’s a vegetable.
Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ
Let go, Cuc- switch off your arguing computer.
“I am the perfect image of a modern major vegitable…”
-Christopher
At that time I was also told that tomatoes are also [theorectically] a fruit.
You are lucky, to only have one such problem. I have 3:
If my eldest daughter will eat it, it doesn’t matter if it’s a fruit or vegetable. as long as it isn’t meat.
If the 2nd eldest eats it, it must be a fruit, but wishes it was meat.
but if the youngest eats it, then it is obviously a sweet or a bag
of crisps, but also wishes she had fries and a toy with it. 
Phil
veg·e·ta·ble n.
a. A plant cultivated for an edible part, such as the root of the beet, the leaf of spinach, or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower.
b. The edible part of such a plant.
c. A member of the vegetable kingdom; a plant.
To further confuse the subject one of my father’s favorite sayings was that tomatos were a fruit when eaten with sugar and a vegetable when eaten with salt.
I can’t explain it but I know it when I see it…
YAY!!
I AM A BANANA!! MY SPOON IS TOO BIG!! TUESDAY IS COMING, DID YOU BRING YOUR COAT?? EVERYBODY DANCE!! I’M FEELING FAT AND SASSY!! POOPY’S TAKING HIS FIRST STEPS!! MY ANUS IS BLEEDING!! AND NOW ANGRY TICKS FIRE OUT OF MY NIPPLES!! SAY, DO YOU WANT TO GO SEE A MOVIE?? 
WOOOOOOOOOO!! WAAAAAHHH!!
Okay, ITEMNO, that was scary.
Anyways, from what I think, a fruit is anything that grows on a tree and a vegetable is anything that grows under ground or on a planty-bushy-non-tree thing.
Is it called a tomato tree or a tomato plant? If it were “tree”, then it’s probably a fruit.
Dang it, why don’t the dictionary companies and stuff declare tomato as something? Then it would be official and there would actually be an answer.
did you know that the world record for eating jalipenos is 152 in 1 hour
what does that make a grape then?
neither
it’s a berry
Are they anything like jalapeños? 
Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ
More discussion fodder
This is from Minnesota so it must be right.
C. Fruits vs. veggies.
Botanically, fruits are derived from the ovary or reproductive parts of the plants. Vegetables are derived from “vegetative” parts, such as leaves, roots and stems. Simple, right? So, is a zucchini a fruit or vegetable? How about cauliflower? or tomato? or squash? Many foods that we consider vegetables are actually fruits, and vice versa. The problem arises because “fruit” is commonly used to describe a food that is usually sweet and eaten as dessert or perhaps salad, whereas vegetable is used to describe a food, usually green, that is eaten during the main course of a meal.
Yesterday, my mom got a bunch of seeds from some seed store, and the back of the cucumber package called cucumber a fruit.
So I think that all squashes really are fruits…