there is no type of plant called "vegetable." Vegetables mean the sort of plants we eat with the main course of the dinner, not for desert.
The United States Supreme Court ruled that it is a fruit botantically and a vegetable in common speech, and the law distinguishing between fruits and vegetables was using the ordinary meaning.
The Supreme Court would have had difficulty leaving it to the FDA which had not been created when it ruled. (IIRC.) Besides, the FDA certainly doesn't handle custom duties.
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psudonym, Jan 24, 2012, 06 pm
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Mary (Guest), Jan 24, 2012, 07 pm
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there is no type of plant called "vegetable." Vegetables mean the sort of plants we eat with the main course of the dinner, not for desert.The United States Supreme Court ruled that it is a fruit botantically and a vegetable in common speech, and the law distinguishing between fruits and vegetables was using the ordinary meaning.
robybang, Jan 24, 2012, 08 pm
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/nov/22/democratic-national-committe e/republicans-pizza-vegetable-school-lunch/
Twentydragon, Jan 25, 2012, 12 am
That sounds like the kind of issue the Supreme Court needs to leave to the FDA.
Gunwild (Guest), Jan 25, 2012, 02 am
How does Guy take his coffee and what blend does he like?
u_queen, Jan 25, 2012, 10 am
Pizza sauce is a vegetable? It sound more like a sauce to me.
Err, I din't know about the Supreme Court sayiing that. Instead we have the reasoning that tomatoes are fruits because they cntain the seeds.
Captain LeBubbles, Jan 25, 2012, 06 pm
Containing seeds means that they're berries, then. (THINGS I LEARNED FROM QI.)
Mary (Guest), Jan 26, 2012, 06 pm
The Supreme Court would have had difficulty leaving it to the FDA which had not been created when it ruled. (IIRC.) Besides, the FDA certainly doesn't handle custom duties.
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