Quote from: Ἀπόλλων on January 08, 2015, 01:22:43 PM

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Everywhere else it is considered a fruit, but in Oklahoma the watermelon has been officially declared a vegetable. And not just any vegetable, Oklahoma's house of representatives yesterday voted to award the watermelon the honour of official state vegetable.

Pretty sure Common Core would teach Oklahoma the difference between a fruit and a vegetable.

Well, really, vegetables don't exist. It's a grocery term to designate between different foods. They're all really fruits.

Botanically speaking, a fruit is a seed-bearing structure that develops from the ovary of a flowering plant, whereas vegetables are all other plant parts, such as roots, leaves and stems. By those standards, seedy outgrowths such as apples, squash and, yes, tomatoes are all fruits, while roots such as beets, potatoes and turnips, leaves such as spinach, kale and lettuce, and stems such as celery and broccoli are all vegetables.

Quote from: LC on January 08, 2015, 03:36:20 PM

>tfw I'm more confederate than most of you posers that are only doing it to look cool and unique

how deep in the south are you