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potatoes are a "root vegetable" such as carrots, turnips and beets
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RE: Are Potatoes Vegetables
what about GM fruit that have no seeds??
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Thats another story...
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Cookie knows all about random shit like this, and if he doesnt, he makes it his mission to find out as much as possible until nobody gives a shit anymore..:P


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Root vegetables are underground plant parts used as vegetables. They are called root vegetables for lack of a better generic term.
Root Vegetables isn't vegetables, it only has vegetable in it's name.
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RE: Are Potatoes Vegetables
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Root vegetables are underground plant parts used as vegetables. They are called root vegetables for lack of a better generic term.
Root Vegetables isn't vegetables, it only has vegetable in it's name.

yes they bloody well are, its talking about the fact its called 'root' which is a bit of a dodgy term for the types of vegetables that come under it... it's a tubular veggie and thats that. POTATO'S ARE VEGETABLES.
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RE: Are Potatoes Vegetables
potatoes are alien eggs... a new race of very disgusting aliens... when they hatch out they look a bit like :spam:
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RE: RE: Are Potatoes Vegetables
Potatoes are is in the genus Solanums(this is more specific than the nightshadefamily) together with tomatoes and eggplants. Tomatoes are fruits and eggplants are berries. How can a potatoe be a vegetable then? Is the definition of a vegetable everything vegetable like which isn't a fruit?

A potatoe isn't really a root, it is a starchy tuber. Starchy means that it's complex carbohydrate which is insoluble in water. And a tuber is a storage organ so this means that the potatoes we eat is the stored energy the plant has stored for later. Doesn't this mean that potatoes aren't vegetables?

I know Time said this, but I didn't understand what he meant before I wrote this(and learned it as I wrote) The only reason I did this research of what a potato is was that I knew it wasn't a vegetable.

*edit I forgot to mention that I was wrong about the root vegetable. But this isn't important in this case since potatoes aren't root vegetables.

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Well then what what makes potatoes not part of the meat and alternatives group? Beans dont bleed do they? Peanuts dont bleed either (unless ur talking about the comic).
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RE: Are Potatoes Vegetables
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look,  with seeds = fruit
no seeds = vegetable or other crap :P
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