Wednesday's Wonderful Woohoooty Riddle

[hiwaygal]

Isn't that what a lot of beauty queens have said before?

or is it "Kiss my Tiara?"

 

[SleepingBeautyDreamr]

What this riddle needs is a hero

I..am..that...HERO!

Ok we have a hero that is either a cucumber or pickle with a plunger through it

 

[TwinkieMama]

Ok long ago and far away at the founding of our great nation, fruits and vegetables were under different import/export/tariff laws so at some point lists where made of which food belonged in each group for tax purposes really... no one consulted a botanist and food groups for nutrition had not been invented.

Botanically a fruit is the mature ovary of the plant... therefore if it contains a seed it is a fruit. Tomatos, cucumbers, beans, corn, peas... while we think of them as veggies (and they are taxed as veggies) all contain seeds.

Much more recently, there was concern over child nutrition. Some folks noticed that children do not eat enough vegetables. Our great nation vowed to fix this problem! Tax supported school lunches would be healthy! The poor children of the US of A would get their veggie-veggie-fruit group (aside: I really miss "Food Rocks")!!!! But, alas and alack even when healthy veggies (botanically fruit!) were offered children still did not eat them! What a huge waste of food and money... so we did the American thing. We changed the definition of a vegetable (enter ketchup) so now our school lunches do have an adequate number of vegetables. (cue patriotic music)

 

[TwinkieMama]

What this riddle needs is a hero

I..am..that...HERO!

but are you a fruit or a vegetable?

 

[hiwaygal]

*snicker* she said ovary *snicker*

 

[Duckfan-in-Chicago]

Ok long ago and far away at the founding of our great nation, fruits and vegetables were under different import/export/tariff laws so at some point lists where made of which food belonged in each group for tax purposes really... no one consulted a botanist and food groups for nutrition had not been invented.

Botanically a fruit is the mature ovary of the plant... therefore if it contains a seed it is a fruit. Tomatos, cucumbers, beans, corn, peas... while we think of them as veggies (and they are taxed as veggies) all contain seeds.

Much more recently, there was concern over child nutrition. Some folks noticed that children do not eat enough vegetables. Our great nation vowed to fix this problem! Tax supported school lunches would be healthy! The poor children of the US of A would get their veggie-veggie-fruit group (aside: I really miss "Food Rocks")!!!! But, alas and alack even when healthy veggies (botanically fruit!) were offered children still did not eat them! What a huge waste of food and money... so we did the American thing. We changed the definition of a vegetable (enter ketchup) so now our school lunches do have an adequate number of vegetables. (cue patriotic music)

Wow...you have pretty typing. I'd read it more closely, but I've learned my fact for the day, and I'm afraid of pushing something out.

 

[SleepingBeautyDreamr]

Botanically a fruit is the mature ovary of the plant... therefore if it contains a seed it is a fruit. Tomatos, cucumbers, beans, corn, peas... while we think of them as veggies (and they are taxed as veggies) all contain seeds.

Does that mean that peppers are also fruit?

 

[SleepingBeautyDreamr]

Wow...you have pretty typing. I'd read it more closely, but I've learned my fact for the day, and I'm afraid of pushing something out.

no offense but does that mean you have a brain the size of a pea since it can only contain one fact a day?

 

[SleepingBeautyDreamr]

*snicker* she said ovary *snicker*

You said ovary too

 

[Duckfan-in-Chicago]

no offense but does that mean you have a brain the size of a pea since it can only contain one fact a day?

Size isn't everything. Look at the size of a dinosaur's brain.

It can contain more than one fact a day, but why risk it?

 

[TwinkieMama]

Does that mean that peppers are also fruit?

Yes.

 

[hiwaygal]

Size isn't everything.

coming from a man

 

[SleepingBeautyDreamr]

Size isn't everything. Look at the size of a dinosaur's brain.

It can contain more than one fact a day, but why risk it?

 

[SleepingBeautyDreamr]

Yes.

Hmmm that leaves not too many that are veggies then since alot of what I always thought of as them have seeds

 

[SleepingBeautyDreamr]

coming from a man

 

[the Fidge]

Have a nice day all off to work!

 

[SleepingBeautyDreamr]

Oooohhhh we are going to make the wooooo hoooooty by noon (CST)

 

[TwinkieMama]

Where is Angel?

 

[Duckfan-in-Chicago]

Hmmm that leaves not too many that are veggies then since alot of what I always thought of as them have seeds

I don't think she's so much a botanist as an anti-vegetarite.

 

[SleepingBeautyDreamr]

Have a nice day all off to work!

Have a good day at work



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