Pizza = veggies...?!

Otherwise the classification system is worthless.

Not really. Is the classification system of living things (kingdom -> phylum -> class -> (group/family, don't remember what order they come in) -> genus -> species) worthless because some classifications are subsets of others? It just allows you to give an arbitrary level of specificity.

 

I guess so, but it certainly makes the vegetable/fruit discussion stupid.
Which is something, you know, I feel passionate about!

 

Yes, I can see that

Also, I was under the impression that a vegetable didn't necessarily have to be edible, though, in modern English, it's almost never used to refer to something non-edible, so for all practical purposes, it might as well be always edible.

 

I wonder why it matters what the US calls a vegetable.

 

I wonder why it matters what the US calls a vegetable.

Well the main base of my personal nag with it? Overweight people living on veggie diet :eek:

*cue next posts about fat people jokes and three specifically about how that was offensive*

 

That wasn't so much offensive as not well reasoned.