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Ok, so there we were having sunday dinner with ALL the veg and the potatoes supplied by my veg patch 
when Middle Reetlet asked:
"Are beans a vegetable?"
Now we've been growing veg and particularly beans for 4 years now and we were pretty sure the Reetlets new their veg and where it came from and so to say OH and I were a little taken aback by this question, would be an understatement.
"Of course they're veg," I said.
"But they have their seeds in them," Middle Reetlet said "and I thought that meant it was a fruit?"
And she continued with:
"Tomatoes are fruit!"
And she's right isn't she because pumpkins, squashes, peppers and cucumbers are all regarded as fruit but in a vegetable kind of way and so OH and I weren't able to answer her question.
Are beans a vegetable or, based on the 'fruit have their seeds inside them' are they actually a fruit?
Answers on a postcard please.
Reet
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when Middle Reetlet asked:"Are beans a vegetable?"
Now we've been growing veg and particularly beans for 4 years now and we were pretty sure the Reetlets new their veg and where it came from and so to say OH and I were a little taken aback by this question, would be an understatement.
"Of course they're veg," I said.
"But they have their seeds in them," Middle Reetlet said "and I thought that meant it was a fruit?"
And she continued with:
"Tomatoes are fruit!"
And she's right isn't she because pumpkins, squashes, peppers and cucumbers are all regarded as fruit but in a vegetable kind of way and so OH and I weren't able to answer her question.
Are beans a vegetable or, based on the 'fruit have their seeds inside them' are they actually a fruit?
Answers on a postcard please.
Reet
x
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