[Coco] chili!!!!Re: COCO3 System Arrangement of modules

[Alex Evans]

On  4  Jun 2008, at 6:11 AM, wdg3rd at comcast.net wrote:

> From: Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au>
>> wdg3rd at comcast.net wrote:
>>
>>> Chili is not a vegetable.  While vegetables may be used as flavoring
>>> (tomatoes and/or tomatillos, onions, garlic and especially chiles),
>>
>> Actually, tomato is a fruit!
>
> Yes, I know.  Tomatoes were declared a legal vegetable by the  
> legislature in these United States for some tariff situation a  
> century or so back.  Chiles are also fruit, though I don't know  
> what the law says.  Tomatillos are fruit (related to gooseberries,  
> actually) but I doubt that many of the idiots in the legislature  
> even know they exist.  I'm pretty sure lily bulbs in the allium  
> family are still vegetables, but the legislature is currently in  
> session and anything could happen.

If you look at the applicable part of a typical dictionary definition  
(the edible part of a plant), all fruits are vegetables.  It is also  
true that some fruits are almost never referred to as vegetables  
(apples and oranges) and some are often referred to that way (peppers  
and cucumbers).