THE FRUIT

Every once in a while at a given gathering (possibly where they have salad or a sandwich buffet) some ultra-witty guy will bring up the notion that a tomato is in fact a fruit, and not a vegetable. This always makes me want to hold him down and force feed him a bowl of homemade tomato yogurt.
This all started because BOTANICALLY the tomato IS a fruit. Along with peppers, squash, cucumbers, eggplant, and so-on. Technically all plants are vegetation which makes the banana a vegetable. Who cares! The whole debate is stupid! Potatoes are tubers, carrots are roots, beans are legumes, but culinary-wise they are all veggies. Look up vegetables in the back of a cook book and you will find the tomato there and not under the fruits listing.
GOOGLE 'fruit' and I'll bet 'tomato'. is an awful long way down the list.
SORRY. They can't all be profound.