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[LakeyGal]

Ok, ok, I'm being incredibly pedantic here.... but how can cucmber be the "magical fruit" when it's a vegetable???

Anyways, enuff of me being silly - they really are beauties!

Ever heard the rhyme beans beans the magical fruit?

Cucumber cucumber the magical vegetable just didn't work in my head..... but I was waiting for someone to call me on that, gold star to you

 

[Miss Wiggle]

lol i was just gonna say surely that's beans beans!

cute pics though

 

[screamingdonkey]

lol i was just gonna say surely that's beans beans!

cute pics though

I'm well lost now - I thought beans were a vegetable too!

And the only rhyme I know about beans is ..... "Beanz Meanz Heinz".
Mind you there was another one at school (a looooooong time ago) - "Beans, beans, good for your heart; the more you eat, the more you ...."

 

[LakeyGal]

lol i was just gonna say surely that's beans beans!

cute pics though

I'm well lost now - I thought beans were a vegetable too!

And the only rhyme I know about beans is ..... "Beanz Meanz Heinz".
Mind you there was another one at school (a looooooong time ago) - "Beans, beans, good for your heart; the more you eat, the more you ...."

Well is was a dodgy playground rhyme, a lot of not so poetic licence was involved

"Beans Beans the magical fruit, The more you eat the more you p**p"

All based on the same theme mind you

 

[Teelie]

Beans are a legume, not a vegetable.

 

[LakeyGal]

Beans are a legume, not a vegetable.

ooo well 'ark at you with your vegetation knowledge ....

 

[Teelie]

I watch Good Eats occasionally.

 

[LakeyGal]

I watch Good Eats occasionally.

Ah see being in the UK we miss out on all that...our equivalent is a teeny mad woman forcing people to detox..

 

[Miss Wiggle]

Beans are a legume, not a vegetable.

legume is just french for vegetable

 

[Teelie]

That's like saying a banana is a plant. Legumes have fruit, but are not fruits. I think they fall somewhere inbetween vegetable and fruit. Plant taxonomy is not one of my strong suits.

 

[jollysue]

Wikipedia about legumes

But Wikipedia also says

Having an enclosed seed and developing from a flower, cucumbers are scientifically classified as a fruit. Much like tomatoes and squash, however, their sour-bitter flavor contributes to cucumbers being perceived, prepared and eaten as vegetables. It should be noted that vegetable is a purely culinary term and as such there is no conflict in classifying cucumber as both a fruit and a vegetable

 

[shaz3271]

Cucumber IS a Fruit

 

[Teelie]

Wikipedia about legumes

But Wikipedia also says

Having an enclosed seed and developing from a flower, cucumbers are scientifically classified as a fruit. Much like tomatoes and squash, however, their sour-bitter flavor contributes to cucumbers being perceived, prepared and eaten as vegetables. It should be noted that vegetable is a purely culinary term and as such there is no conflict in classifying cucumber as both a fruit and a vegetable

But Wikipedia is not exactly the most reliable resource either. It's probably right but then it might also be wrong or mistaken too. Vegetable/fruit/plants are just confusing. Especially when you try to classify them.

 

[jollysue]

How about Encarta:

cucumber
- fruit used in salads: a long fruit with dark green peel and crisp white watery flesh that is usually eaten raw in salads and sandwiches or pickled
- plant with long green fruit: a climbing or trailing annual plant of the gourd family that produces cucumbers.

legumes
- seed or pod of leguminous plant: a seed, pod, or other part of a plant such as a pea or bean, used as food
- leguminous plant: a plant that has pods as fruits and roots that bear nodules containing nitrogen-fixing bacteria.

??

I think the statement that the plant isn't the fruit; the seed or seed container is is probably the closest to right.

You have done more looking into it, it seems, Teelie, so what are we looking for?

 

[LakeyGal]

What have I started?

Does this work for courgettes too....