People always bring that up and they don't realize it's a flawed argument. "Vegetable" means basically nothing. It's a culinary term. Saying "tomatoes are fruits, not vegetables" is like saying "potatoes are roots, not vegetables". Just like how watermelons and cucumbers are technically berries, but nobody'll ever actually call them one.
Like, sure, maybe you're technically correct, but it's still right to call 'maters a vegetable because that's what everyone agreed to call them and that's really all vegetable mean: A loose list of edible plant parts we all decided to call vegetables.
I.e, if you ask for a fruit and I give you a tomato, are you going to be happy or confused?
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