28 November 2024
Forget the Thanksgiving turkey, gravy, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green beans, cornbread, and cranberry sauce. Let’s cut to the chase and eat pie today!
So many fruits! Pumpkin, apple, berries, key lime, raisin-apple.
Mmmmm, good. Happy Thanksgiving!
photos from Wikimedia Commons, linked in the list of fruits. p.s. …
A pumpkin, from a botanist‘s perspective, is a fruit because it’s a product of the seed-bearing structure of flowering plants. Vegetables, on the other hand, are the edible portion of plants such as leaves, stems, roots, bulbs, flowers, and tubers. Because pumpkins are less sweet and more savory from a culinary perspective, we categorize them as a vegetable.
— FruitsandVeggies.org: Are pumpkins a fruit or a vegetable? What is the difference between the two?