Creativeguru  +  522008 Mon, 02 Jun 08 12:45 PM A very interesting case came up on the supreme court desk here in India, is coconut a fruit, nut or vegetable I will post the courts ruling on iy here but till then we all can scratch our heads on it and share with all the members here   Creativeguru Joined on Fri, Feb 8 2008 India Regular Member 810

	Mister Micawber  +  522032 Mon, 02 Jun 08 01:43 PM . I fail to see how even the most self-righteous court could 'rule' on biological fact.  Botanically, a coconut is a simple dry nut known as a fibrous drupe (www.agroforestry.net).  Nuts are a kind of fruit. The part we eat (the endosperm) is within the seed of the nut/fruit. Mister Micawber Joined on Wed, Aug 4 2004 Yokohama Veteran Member 30,783 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master-- that's all.'

	Grammar Geek  +  522033 Mon, 02 Jun 08 01:44 PM I expect it has something to do with taxes or subsidies, or some such. I seem to recall, although it may be an urban legend, that the tomato (technically a fruit) was deemed to be a vegetable by Congress. Oh - I found it: http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/framed.htm?parent=question143.htm&url=http://www.vegparadise.com/highestperch8.html And it was in the 1800s, not some idiocy of the recent administrations. Grammar Geek Joined on Tue, Jan 10 2006 Veteran Member 19,653 Barbara, who answers in American English. My housekeeping skills attest to the truth of the second law of thermodynamics: Left to themselves, things get more and more random!

	optilang  +  522081 Mon, 02 Jun 08 04:44 PM  According to the EU a carrot is a fruit, not a vegetable.   optilang Joined on Tue, May 13 2008 Poland Senior Member 2,521 OptiNative British English Speaker Wherever I may roam, I'm still a Londoner.

	Creativeguru  +  522296 Tue, 03 Jun 08 06:41 AM you are right GG, it has to do with taxes and sudsidies and even how to control the prices, it's also technical stuff. Anyways something new i came to knwo about tamatoo and carrot thanks. Creativeguru

	Goodman  +  532055 Tue, 24 Jun 08 10:22 PM Mister Micawber “ ((()))I fail to see how even the most self-righteous court could 'rule' on biological fact. ” let me start my saying "I don't want to start another controvesy by what I am about to say". But I was a little giggling inside when I saw the title"  Is coconut a fruit, nut or vegetable?".  Aside from the headlined controversy, this came to my head as I read this thread:  Can a man be a woman? and conversely a woman be a man? or can a man, against his biology, be a man and a woman alternatively as he pleases? How ironic that you mentioned biological fact. That was how ridiculous I felt with the ruling a month ago when the bunch of "self-rightious" black ropes got together in San Francisco and ruled on the (same sex) marriage issue against the voters' wills.   Goodman Joined on Mon, Nov 7 2005 Senior Member 3,816 The name says it all! Marriage