Cow: Fruit or Vegetable?

[shannon_a]

It's a well-known fact that you can determine if something is a fruit or a vegetable based on whether you can make a dessert out of said edible object.

Cherries, for example, are fruits because you can make Cherry Pie. Ditto apples, bananas, peaches, pumpkin, and pecans. Brocolli, on the other hand, is totally desert free, ditto brussel sprouts, potatos, and radishes. Hence, they're all vegetables.

Now, the question arises, does this classification system only apply to foods already known to be a fruit or a vegetable, or can it actually be applied to any food?

If the latter, it raises problems because some animals in particular are used in the creation of many different food items. Take the cow as an examples. Its milk makes ice creams and its bones Jello. So, that makes it a fruit, yes? But meat generally isn't a dessert ingredient. You wouldn't want to have meat pie after the main course, and I've never heard of sirloin steak ice cream. So that would imply the cow is a vegetable.

Which leaves us with a quandry: the bovine, fruit or vegetable.

A question for the ages.

Comments

[kimberly-a.livejournal.com]

Um ... dear? Don't you mean "dessert"? ;)

[andrewducker]

Maybe it's a combination. A whole meal in one, designed to provide both nutrition and sweetness in one fairly stupid mobile bundle.

[wolflady26.livejournal.com]

The problem is, there are always exceptions to that rule. For example, what dessert uses tomatoes? And yet, they are certifiably still a fruit.

[shannon_a]

No, you see that's the proof that they're a vegetable.

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[wolflady26.livejournal.com]

Maybe a cow could be a fregetable, then. They obviously can't be vruit, cause that sounds too Dutch.