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Re:The Onion Futures Act by lazycouchpotato on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @09:27PM (#18669438)
On a side note, I hovered the cursor over "Onion" and was surprised to find out it's classified as a fruit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion

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Re:The Onion Futures Act by mousebender on Thursday December 13, 2018 @02:56PM (#18675449)
FYI, before a December 12 edit on Wikipedia, it was listed as a vegetable. Vandalism?

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Onion&type=revisi...

Apparently a fruit is the ripened ovary of a flowering plant, enclosing the seed or seeds--not a bulb like an onion.

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Re:The Onion Futures Act by andybak on Thursday December 13, 2018 @04:08AM (#18670936)
"Intelligence is knowing tomatoes are a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put them in your fruit salad"
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Re:The Onion Futures Act by BlackFly on Thursday December 13, 2018 @08:08AM (#18672000)
Unless you are talking botany, calling a tomato a fruit is falling for the fallacy of equivocation and too many people do this and have the pretension that they are being smart. The word "fruit" has multiple definitions, a tomato is a fruit by definition 1, but not a fruit by definition 2.

What most people understand by the word fruit is definition 2.

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Re:The Onion Futures Act by mac01021 on Friday December 14, 2018 @07:44AM (#18680408)
What's definition 2?
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Re:The Onion Futures Act by 0db532a0 on Thursday December 13, 2018 @10:38AM (#18673029)
You will be interested to learn about the existence of tomato jam.
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