Tomato Poll, is it a fruit or a vegetable?

We have all seen or tasted a tomato.  Whether it was in a salad, soup, drink, ketchup, or just growing in your backyard or local grocery store.  But the question is what is it?  Is it a fruit or is the tomato a vegetable.  Now I want to know what you think it is in the poll below.  Before you scroll down and read what the tomato is classified as, and what the government classify the tomato as.

Take this poll, then scroll down to read more about this magical fruit or vegetable.  I am curious what everyone thinks.

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While a pot of tomato sauce or gravy as the Italians say, is cooking away for 8 hours in my kitchen.  Why gravy you say?  Maybe because Americans have more names for sauces than they had in Germany, France and Italy.  So a sauce could have meant more like a Alfredo or Hollandaise when it was easy to say gravy for a tomato sauce.  Or that a gravy is supposed to be simmered for hours.  But their room in the comments for your thoughts on this.

Then like some people will ask what about gravy for meat.  What do you call that.  Well most people will just call that brown gravy.  It’s all about what your family said at dinner time.

So here it is now that you have your idea of the tomato here is what the answer is.  The tomato is consumed in diverse ways, including raw, as an ingredient in many dishes, sauces, salads, and drinks. While it is botanically a fruit, it is considered a vegetable for culinary purposes (as well as under U.S. customs regulations, see Nix v. Hedden), which has caused some confusion. The fruit is rich in lycopene, which may have beneficial health effects.

Well there you have it folks, the tomato.  Lets here some ideas for future polls.  I mean would you rather be taking more health care polls or something more fun.  That what we thought here too.  Looking forward to some suggestions have a great week. 

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