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Here we are again, time to eat more pumpkins, they are nutritious and decorative.

@Private Joke  
Our toungue says it is vegetable, but the reality of botany says otherwise.

@Background Pony #AD5B  
Hmm…

@Private Joke  
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit  
Wisdom is not putting a tomato in a fruit salad  
Philosophy is wondering if Ketchup is actually a smoothie

@Minus  
Botanically there’s no such thing as a vegetable. “vegetable” is purely a culinary term, and a very weird one. Culinarily, pumpkins are vegetables, however botanically the big orange bit that you actually eat is a fruit. Because names are confusing and contrary. Funnily enough the same is true of tomatoes (kitchen classes them as a vegetable, but botanically they’re a fruit.)

low fat  
high fiber  
good for pony digestion  
carry on, horsewife

@Background Pony #C959  
Okay but punpkins are sweet. They’re fruit. They’re sticky and sickly. You wouldnt eat it in a salad with carrots and lettuce. You use it like you would apples to make pies and… Other things. It’s not easten much, despite being so popular, but anyone that’s tasted should realise it’s a fruit. It looks like a fruit. It is by technicality also a fruit. It walks like a fruit, it talks like a fruit. Calling a pumpkin a vegetable feels like some meme I’m too old to get. It’s just so so so far from the sensible conclusion to come to.

@BarryFromMars
 
She likes pumpkins raw, like Gollum eats rabbits.

@Minus  

 
The same reason you’d call any vegetable, of course.
 
To be more serious, I was making the culinary distinction between sweet (fruit) and savory (vegetable) foods.

@Nightweaver20xx  
Seriously speaking:
 
The official criteria for something to be a “fruit” is that it has a skin, flesh, and seeds. Any other part of a plant is thus a vegetable.
 
(and yes, that does mean pumpkins, squash, gem squash, and green beans are all technically fruits)

@Sollace  
Anything that you take off of a living plant without killing the plant itself is botanically a “fruit.” Any time you remove and eat the entire plant, like celery, potatoes, beets… that’s a vegetable.

@Sollace  
A pumpkin is an protein, we all know this

@Minus  
Because… a pumpkin is a vegetable?
 
Or are you going to come and tell me it’s a fruit?

@Background Pony #C959  
Why would you call a pumpkin a vegetable?

@BakedBeans
 
@Nightweaver20xx
 
I think she’s on Richard’s left. The camera direction just changes.

@BakedBeans  
Brownie Bun is a master of deception.

I don’t get where she is, geographically. In panel 1 she seems to be on his left, but in 2 and 3 she seems to be on his right

Wife gonna do wife

@Background Pony #F2CF
 
Yeah, that’s just Pumpkin Pie that Brownie dislikes. Maybe she’d be OK with one without the spices, though?

@Background Pony #F2CF  

@Background Pony #F2CF  
Pumpkin pie. Which does not taste the same as the vegetable.

@Background Pony #F2CF  
That was TJ using her as a mouthpiece.

Doesn’t Brownie dislike pumpkin?

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