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Topic: Well answer me this!
Peccy's photo
Sat 03/14/09 09:55 PM
Why isn't popcorn a vegetable?

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Sat 03/14/09 09:58 PM
It is according to me!!! A vegetable SNACK cooked in vegetable OIL.

LadyHawkeByDay's photo
Sat 03/14/09 10:00 PM
Hmmmm.

Not sure corn technically counts as a vegetable in the first place. The "seeds" are on the outside, first of all, and the properties of the kernels suggest that it actually ought to be classified with grains or nuts instead...

The way we use it seems to be more in keeping with the "grain" classification...


Peccy's photo
Sat 03/14/09 10:03 PM

Hmmmm.

Not sure corn technically counts as a vegetable in the first place. The "seeds" are on the outside, first of all, and the properties of the kernels suggest that it actually ought to be classified with grains or nuts instead...

The way we use it seems to be more in keeping with the "grain" classification...


ya think, but it's corn not an almond!

galendgirl's photo
Sat 03/14/09 10:03 PM

Why isn't popcorn a vegetable?


Does it matter? I just had a bowl...OMG, it's so delicious!

Peccy's photo
Sat 03/14/09 10:04 PM
and while I'm here- potato chips, think about it...........lol

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Sat 03/14/09 10:06 PM
Definition:

1. grain of cereal plant: the grain of a tall annual cereal plant that produces densely packed ears of grains attached to a central core. Use: as a vegetable, ground for flour, to produce oil, or for livestock feed.


2. cereal plant producing corn: the cereal crop that yields corn. It has been cultivated as a food crop since ancient times. Native to: Central, South America. Latin name Zea mays.


3. U.K. wheat, barley, or oats: any cereal crop, especially wheat, barley, or oats


SO RIGHT!!! Here we've been forced to eat our vegetables and all along mom should have said "eat your grain"!!!! But, note, it says it's USED AS A VEGETABLE!!! I'M SO CONFUSED!!!! sad sad sad sad

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Sat 03/14/09 10:07 PM
POTATO!!! They are really tubers!!!!
1. root vegetable: a rounded white tuber cooked in a variety of ways as a vegetable. Use: industrial source of starch.

Peccy's photo
Sat 03/14/09 10:09 PM
First our history teachers lie to us growing up, now this! Our entire lives have been a charade!!!!! (I can be more melodramatic, just ask)

galendgirl's photo
Sat 03/14/09 10:10 PM

and while I'm here- potato chips, think about it...........lol


That has something to do with a scientific formula about chips and the direct correlation to the size of a person's butt and thight ...

I failed biology, so I can't tell you exactly why, but there IS an important reason for those delicious fried potatoes to be something else! flowerforyou

Peccy's photo
Sat 03/14/09 10:14 PM
you failed biology? Get out, just get out======>

lol

galendgirl's photo
Sat 03/14/09 10:17 PM

you failed biology? Get out, just get out======>

lol


Okay, that's a lie...I didn't fail biology.

But the correlation between potato chips and butt/thigh size was a question I ALWAYS missed on the exams... the only solution is to miss class and avoid that calculation at all costs (or at least the cost of having to buy bigger jeans if I DON'T get it right! - EGADS!)

LadyHawkeByDay's photo
Sat 03/14/09 10:17 PM
Edited by LadyHawkeByDay on Sat 03/14/09 10:19 PM


Hmmmm.

Not sure corn technically counts as a vegetable in the first place. The "seeds" are on the outside, first of all, and the properties of the kernels suggest that it actually ought to be classified with grains or nuts instead...

The way we use it seems to be more in keeping with the "grain" classification...


ya think, but it's corn not an almond!


Hmmm. Does corn digest more like peppers or more like an almond? noway

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Sat 03/14/09 10:23 PM
Hmmm, I feel the need to reply to this topless.

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Sat 03/14/09 10:28 PM
Ahh hell...just give me a pretzel, and be done with it! drinks

Jess642's photo
Sat 03/14/09 10:39 PM
Who gives a sh*t? Pass some with salt please.bigsmile

Peccy's photo
Sat 03/14/09 10:41 PM
Edited by Peccy on Sat 03/14/09 10:42 PM

Who gives a sh*t? Pass some with salt please.bigsmile
friggin Aussies, go walkabout or something.........lol hey girllaugh laugh laugh

Peccy's photo
Sat 03/14/09 10:48 PM

Hmmm, I feel the need to reply to this topless.
I was trying to ignore this, but I can't.....why topless posting?

Jess642's photo
Sat 03/14/09 10:50 PM


Who gives a sh*t? Pass some with salt please.bigsmile
friggin Aussies, go walkabout or something.........lol hey girllaugh laugh laugh


I just did.....lazy bastards wouldn't share the popcorn....grumble


:wink: hey you, back!drinker

galendgirl's photo
Sun 03/15/09 08:56 PM


Hmmm, I feel the need to reply to this topless.
I was trying to ignore this, but I can't.....why topless posting?


Why not??? :banana:

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