Comments on: When rhubarb blooms. http://playinginthedirt.ca/2009/06/09/when-rhubarb-blooms/ (Mostly) Organic Gardening in the Durham Region Thu, 17 May 2012 17:37:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: David in Kansas http://playinginthedirt.ca/2009/06/09/when-rhubarb-blooms/comment-page-1/#comment-7545 David in Kansas Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:24:34 +0000 http://playinginthedirt.ca/?p=452#comment-7545 Off the top of my head, i will say that rhubarb is a true vegetable since it doesn't produce fruit. I say this because technically, any fruit that has the seeds inside is a fruit, a distinction that was erased when the U.S. Congress, in response to the United Banana Company's lobbying, reclassified tomatoes and such as vegetables purely for political reasons (something to do with the tax on exporting/importing fruits vs. vegetables). Someday I will research this more carefully as it promises to be an interesting story. <em>David in Kansas's last blog post..<a href='http://sewa-ania.blogspot.com/2009/06/definite-lack-of-pollinators.html' rel="nofollow">A definite lack of pollinators</a></em> Off the top of my head, i will say that rhubarb is a true vegetable since it doesn’t produce fruit. I say this because technically, any fruit that has the seeds inside is a fruit, a distinction that was erased when the U.S. Congress, in response to the United Banana Company’s lobbying, reclassified tomatoes and such as vegetables purely for political reasons (something to do with the tax on exporting/importing fruits vs. vegetables).

Someday I will research this more carefully as it promises to be an interesting story.

David in Kansas’s last blog post..A definite lack of pollinators

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