By this logic I guess that a persimmon is a vegetable. No wonder I didn't like the Northern cooking I was subjected to in college.
... and [tomatoes] are not served as a fruit
You've never eaten a tomato as a fruit? (And, no, I'm not insinuating that you are a fruit. I leave such observations about you to other posters.) I guess I'll have to give up eating cherry tomatoes by themselves.
It is the scientist in me that is objecting to calling a tomato a vegetable, which it is not. It has seeds and develop from the reproductive part of the plant, therefore botanically it is a fruit regardless of what the Supreme Court says. (Did Chase make the tomato ruling too?)
Cucumbers, pumpkins, squash, and peppers are all botanically fruit
Correct. "... botanists will call them fruits because they develop from the reproductive structures of plants. From the Cornell Department of Horticulture." Source and Definitions.
IMO, if Congress or the regulatory agency wanted to tax tomato imports, they should have listed tomatoes as taxable rather than say "tax vegetables." The Supreme Court simply compounded the error.
I can't wait for our seedless grape argument.
If I were to twist things as badly as you seem to do then a grapefruit would fall under the same restrictions. Keep on twisting.
It is the scientist in me that is objecting to calling a tomato a vegetable, which it is not.
The scientist in you should recognize that 'vetetable' is not a scientific term.
It has seeds and develop from the reproductive part of the plant, therefore botanically it is a fruit regardless of what the Supreme Court says.
So do cucumbers, does the scientist in you object to they being called a vegetable? Why doesn't the scientist in you object to potatoes and carrots being called vegetables instead of roots? Why doesn't the scientist in you insist that people refer to broccoli as a flower instead of a vegitable? Could it be that in all cases the people are correct, because 'vegetable' is a term that can embrace flowers, roots, fungus, and yes, even fruit?
IMO, if Congress or the regulatory agency wanted to tax tomato imports, they should have listed tomatoes as taxable rather than say "tax vegetables." The Supreme Court simply compounded the error.
OK, so what would be taxed as vegetables?