DAILY PROMPT RESPONSE

Plot twist: You’ve been eating fruit all along.

You ever bite into a tomato and think, “Wow, this vegetable is juicy, sweet, and suspiciously… fruity?” Well, congratulations — your instincts are sharper than your neighbor’s knives set. Because here’s the hard truth:

Tomatoes are fruit. So are cucumbers. And zucchini. And eggplants.

That’s right. Your salad is a fruit salad in disguise. Your stir-fry? Basically fruit cobbler without the sugar. Let’s talk about it.

🥒 The Great Vegetable Lie

Botanically speaking, a fruit is anything that grows from the flower of a plant and carries seeds. Vegetables, meanwhile, are things like roots (carrots), stems (celery), or leaves (spinach). You know — the boring parts. The greens your grandma tried to boil into submission.

But fruits? Fruits are the showoffs. The divas. The drama queens of the plant world, demanding, “Look at my seeds! I am the chosen one!”

And yet, we still treat them like veggies. Why?

Because humans are petty and organized the produce aisle based on vibes.

🍆 Welcome to the Fruity Bunch:

• Tomatoes – The Benedict Arnold of vegetables. Shows up in salsa, but has the DNA of a peach.
• Cucumbers – Spa fruit disguised as a crunchy vegetable.
• Zucchini – Basically a green banana with imposter syndrome.
• Eggplant – Dark, moody fruit that wants to be left alone.
• Bell peppers – All color, no commitment. Still a fruit.
• Pumpkins – Halloween’s fruity mascot. Also pie’s best-kept secret.
• Avocados – The only fruit that tries to be butter.
• Olives – Salty little fruits that got lost in a martini and never left.

🥗 So What Now?

Next time someone offers you a “vegetable medley,” just know you’re eating a fruit salad with a PR problem. Maybe we’ve been too harsh on the pineapple-on-pizza people. They were ahead of their time. Maybe everything belongs on pizza. (Except raisins. Raisins can stay banned.)

So go ahead — live your truth. Eat your fruit-veggies. Call your tomato what it really is: a juicy red betrayal.

And remember: in the garden of life, labels are made to be peeled.

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