I love playing around with recipes so have indeed made broc and carrot sauces, but this is kind of all about what feels right to say. And I think that there's a lot of cases where it feels wrong to describe tomato as a vegetable. Kind of how I'd feel odd calling lettuce a vegetable.

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Okay but if someone offered me a pizza with broccoli or carrot sauce I'd have to politely, but firmly refuse

[–] fristislurper@feddit.nl 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Your definition of vegetable is "cannot be used as base for pizza sauce"? Oddly specific.

[–] Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 9 months ago

The whole basis for calling it a vegetable is "I don't want to call it a fruit" so let's not get too pedantic here.

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Not sure where I said that, I was referring to nachorella's comment up thread. If you want to know my definition, it's pretty much aligned with the science definition. Fruits: the parts of the plant containing seeds (with the exception of pods). Vegetables: the rest of the plant (including pods)