Lettuce - Vegetable?

[Greebo]

And that bananas are herbs

They are not really, the banana is a fruit but the plant itself is a herb and not a tree

 

[Col_M]

She isn't foreign is she?

Czechs and Russians (maybe more) have a retarded vocabulary where they call lettuce 'salat' and hence think it's the same as 'salad' in English. I always have to correct my gf when she calls a lettuce a salad.

 

[Greebo]

By that definition bananas and apples are vegetables...

I always thought it came down to where the seeds are? Hence Tomatoes are fruit and so are marrows, cucumbers and peppers.

True fruits are developed from the ovary in the base of the flower, and contain the seeds of the plant (though cultivated forms may be seedless). Blueberries, raspberries, and oranges are true fruits, and so are many kinds of nut.

 

[Mat]

But strawberries have the seeds on the outside...

 

[VonClinkerhofen]

Sexual growth = fruit

vegatative growth = vegetable

If there are seeds in/on it it's a fruit, if it's another bit of the plant like a root (carrot) or a leaf (lettuce) it's a vegetable

BUT!!! I was always taught that there are no rules in biology just trends, as there is always an exception, which makes it a bugger to study

VonClinkerhofen BSc Hons Biology

 

[TwoSaints]

Bananas are berries, i saw it on QI

(that doesn't mean they arn't fruits)

 

[misterPK]

Sexual growth = fruit

vegatative growth = vegetable

If there are seeds in/on it it's a fruit, if it's another bit of the plant like a root (carrot) or a leaf (lettuce) it's a vegetable

BUT!!! I was always taught that there are no rules in biology just trends, as there is always an exception, which makes it a bugger to study

VonClinkerhofen BSc Hons Biology

I really don't like the sound of eating a sexual growth, makes it sound like I'd be chewing on genital warts.

Not sure where it comes from but I once saw a great quote: "Biology is the science for people who can't do maths"

PK!

 

[VonClinkerhofen]

I really don't like the sound of eating a sexual growth, makes it sound like I'd be chewing on genital warts.

Not sure where it comes from but I once saw a great quote: "Biology is the science for people who can't do maths"

PK!

I've got an A level in maths.....it is true i could never get my head around physics though

 

[jas72]

Your having an arguement

shouldn't there be some geeky equation for this like it does not compute....

Lettuce is a vegetable I've never heard of the group of vegetables that get a salad prefix? Would that include tomatoes, sweetcorn, perhaps ham or salami as well ?

or would that be called salad meat?

Confused me for a few months in Belgium where lettuce is called Salade.... lol

 

[semi-pro waster]

Even though you all agree with me, she still says she's right and all of you and myself are wrong.

Women, eh?

Andy

Did you expect a different outcome?

She's wrong and printing it in the largest font possible won't make any difference to that but she may never admit it. Lettuce is a vegetable, it's also a vegetable that can go in a salad but the term salad does not exclusively imply that there will be lettuce in it nor that it must even contain vegetables strictly speaking.

 

[Bignomial]

A salad is a combination of vegetables. Lettuce is a vegetable and a constituent part of a salad. Poxy women.

 

[bsoltan]

She is wrong. Make sure she knows it.

 

[aardvark]

of course lettuce is a vegetable - your mrs is an idiot, go and tell her.

 

[Greebo]

But strawberries have the seeds on the outside...

And technically because of that they are not fruit or even berries. However, it is generally accepted that they are classified as fruit.

 

[mangobreeder]

please take thisn in the good humor it was intended

Q: what has the OP missus and a lettuce both got in common

A: they are both vegtables.

Whats the difference between a Lettuce and the OPs missus
A Lettuce has a higher IQ.

 

[HaMMuS]

Tell her it's a vegetable and then punch her in the ovaries?

Sorry, but it had to be said.

 

[alexakasloth]

Lettuce is a vegetable. Salad is made up of vegetables (and cheeses, meats, pulses, fish etc)

 

[jas72]

Did you expect a different outcome?

She's wrong and printing it in the largest font possible won't make any difference to that but she may never admit it. Lettuce is a vegetable, it's also a vegetable that can go in a salad but the term salad does not exclusively imply that there will be lettuce in it nor that it must even contain vegetables strictly speaking.

yep here a salade de crabe contains neither lettuce or crab meat

 

[steve-h]

never let her live this mistake down.

 

[I get around]

under a plu list on a checkout, it'll come up in salad,
But in reality it's a vegetable.