Identity crisis

For the Flicker Friday challenge theme "vegetables", my initial reaction was, how am I going to make boring old vegetables interesting? So I initially wrote off the challenge as one I'd have to pass on, but then the humble tomato came to mind, and the age old question, is it a fruit or a vegetable?

I remember learning as a child that tomatoes are actually fruits, despite our natural inclination to think of them as vegetables. (I remember thinking that this was a neat little piece of trivia - like I knew something that most people didn't)

However, googling the question today, I've learned that the tomato can really be considered both!

As it turns out: " Tomatoes are fruits that are considered vegetables by nutritionists. Botanically, a fruit is a ripened flower ovary and contains seeds."

So for us, the lovely and versatile tomato can be thought of whichever way you prefer, but for the poor confused tomatoes...

Done