What’s a common “fact” that’s spread around that’s actually not true and pisses you off that too many people believe it?

  • wieson@feddit.org
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    6 days ago

    There are vegetables where you eat the root.
    There are vegetables where you eat the leaves.
    There are vegetables where you eat the stem.
    But for cucumbers, pumpkins, aubergine and paprika you eat the fruit, why should the tomato be different?

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      5 days ago

      I believe the point is non-sweet, tomatoes are often quite sweet without any cooking required

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        5 days ago

        Yes, but bell peppers are also quite sweet. As a kid I learnt that vegetables are from perennial plants (only live for a year) but that rule of thumb is also inconsistent.

        Vegetable refuse to be categorised. Become unrulable.