fruit

Tomatoes are not fruit. I know everyone keeps trying to tell you they are, but I'm here to disagree. This morning after doing my regular horsescat-shovelling and chicken hydrating for rent, Landlady Lady asked me if I'd yard out the tomato plants in the greenhouse. Which I did.

It got me thinking about how scientists say tomatoes are fruit, and how the rest of us know better. You don't make a garden salad with tomatoes, for instance, and call it a fruit salad. You don't scoop some salsa with a corn chip and call it fruit dip, do you? Of course not. Because you're not a scientist, the sort of furry creature (it's mold) that wears coke bottles for glasses and obscure joke-pins like "no brain, no pain" on their lab coats.

Fruit grows on trees, people. Seriously. Just because the scientific "community" (that's a joke) says otherwise doesn't mean we've got to believe them. We don't have to bow down before anything that unofficially bestamps itself with an official "science" stamp. We're living in a society that worships at the church of "Science", but that doesn't mean we've gotta join the pile.

Remember - tomatoes are vegetables. VEGETABLES!