You say tomato

[venta]

What a wonderful sentence:

"[The Supreme Court of the US] acknowledged the botanical reality of their fruithood, but ruled that in common understanding and usage, they are treated as vegetables and should be taxed as such."

(From an article about tomatoes, as read out by my boss this morning.)

In other news, I have betrayed the Marmite. I just had lemon curd on my toast.

Comments

[stompyboots.livejournal.com]

Lemon curd ++good! It's one of those straight back to childhood flavours for me, as my gran used to make the best lemon curd in the known universe.

[stegzy.livejournal.com]

In other news, I have betrayed the Marmite. I just had lemon curd on my toast.

eeeeewwwwww out of the frying pan and into the incinerator! Lemon curd belongs in lower echelons of Hades than Marmite!

Jam is much safer....(raspberry with seeds)

Lemon curd?!

[kissifa.livejournal.com]

Oh the treachery! Oh the humanity! Oh the lemony evil!

I remember making lemon curd in Home-Ec, along with all those other crap dishes they came up with to keep us occupied for an hour, like the great microwave sponge cake experiment. Ugh...

Lemony evil! Lemony eeeeevil...

[nalsa.livejournal.com]

This is a rerun of the whole Jaffa Cakes Are Not Biscuits thing, isn't it? I find it amazing that fruits and veg are taxed differently... "if it's sweet, it's a dessert, so it's a luxury item" is one potential next step.

[al-fruitbat.livejournal.com]

My favourite food-law-wrangle was the argument over whether a Lobster was an Animal or an Insect, as apparently it's cruel to boil an Animal alive, but not cruel to boil an Insect alive.

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

He-he-he! I shall read that sentence out to the cherry tomatoes I am going to have as part of my lunch (on top of Philadephia cheese, on top of a bagel), so that at least they can die feeling secure in the knowledge of their fruithood!

[dmh.livejournal.com]

Just don't admit that last bit on we_love_marmite. They'd flay you alive.