Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Wednesday, January 18th, 2012

Golden Oldie


Although botanically speaking a fruit, in 1893 the U.S. Supreme Court
unanimously ruled that tomatoes are a vegetable (and thus taxable under
the Tariff Act of 1883) because of the way they are usually served.


ref: Smithsonian, August, 1990.


While we are on the subject of defintion by fiat.

No comments:

Post a Comment