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Goldenboy97 6/26/12 4:16 pm
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7/9/2012 12:34 pm
If a tomato is a fruit then is ketchup a jam?????
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Peels9765
06/26/2012 4:18 pm
Level 33 : Artisan Pony
Eenope. That's not true.
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vinyl-ripp
06/26/2012 4:18 pm
Level 45 : Master Princess
No.
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Lord Tristem
06/26/2012 4:18 pm
Level 36 : Artisan Explorer
Probably. you might want to keep your voice down.
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vinyl-ripp
06/26/2012 4:19 pm
Level 45 : Master Princess
For it to be classified as a jam it must be made entirely different i believe.
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twinchicken86
06/26/2012 4:20 pm
Level 5 : Apprentice Miner
Ketchup is not a jam, because (A) there are no pieces of solid fruit in it and (B) it is not sweetened. But tomatoes are fruit, and technically almost all vegetables (Besides stalk, root, and leaf vegetables) are fruit.
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mommaCarole
06/26/2012 5:45 pm
Level 54 : Grandmaster Witch
just a slight error in this one: ketchup is indeed sweetened. there is more sugar in a cup of ketchup than there is in a cup of ice cream.
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DemonicWolfz
06/26/2012 4:25 pm
Level 31 : Artisan Pokémon
Anything that produces seeds inside the vegetable ( AKA Pumpkin ) is a fruit. So tomatoes are fruits yes, BUT ketchup isn't a jam because jam has small peaces of the fruit its made up of in, and all jam's are sweetened with sugar. You could make your own tomato jam and see what it taste like. by cutting up tomatos very small and blending 7/8th of the, then put the other 1/8th in and mix with a spoon, then add sugar.
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joose2001
06/26/2012 5:50 pm
Level 12 : Journeyman Crafter
No
Also Marmalade is also NOT a Jam but uses fruit
Lemon Curd is NOT a jam, but uses fruit....

I could go on but thats the main two I can think of
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Lord Tristem
06/26/2012 5:54 pm
Level 36 : Artisan Explorer
Maybe if the Ketchup believes that it is Jam it is jam.
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mommaCarole
06/26/2012 5:55 pm
Level 54 : Grandmaster Witch
jam: requires the seeds of the fruit to be intact
jelly: requires the fruit mixture to be strained & thickened
salsa: chunky ketchup
ketchup: best classified as "sauce"
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sed11
06/26/2012 5:58 pm
Level 66 : High Grandmaster Hero
How is this important.
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Lord Tristem
06/26/2012 5:59 pm
Level 36 : Artisan Explorer
Because understanding this conundrum is the key to unlocking the meaning of life.
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twinchicken86
07/01/2012 10:26 pm
Level 5 : Apprentice Miner
It is. Just that simple. Accept the facts of life.
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SniperMonkey
06/26/2012 5:58 pm
Level 12 : Journeyman Artist
Ask the all mighty lemon!
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Aeiou562
06/26/2012 6:01 pm
Level 28 : Expert Artist
No you must ask the magic conch
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joose2001
06/26/2012 6:01 pm
Level 12 : Journeyman Crafter
Jelly you have with Ice Cream, end of!!
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peterod1998
06/26/2012 6:14 pm
Level 37 : Artisan Demolitionist
Fun Fact:

Marmalade was called marmalade because.... the French queen Marie was very sick so they made her this orange "jam" and she got better.... the French for sick is malade. Mar-malade!

{in case you didn't notice I've been posting fun facts randomly across the forums}
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lost-hero-117
07/01/2012 10:32 pm
Level 18 : Journeyman Ranger
No, the tomato isn't a fruit, it was declared a vegetable, by the government, when farmers asked how much it should be sold for, and all that jazz.
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the_soup
07/01/2012 10:42 pm
Level 72 : Legendary Button Pusher
In 1887, U.S. tariff laws that imposed a duty on vegetables, but not on fruits, caused the tomato's status to become a matter of legal importance. The U.S. Supreme Court settled the controversy on May 10, 1893, by declaring that the tomato is a vegetable, based on the popular definition that classifies vegetables by use, that they are generally served with dinner and not dessert (Nix v. Hedden (149 U.S. 304)). The holding of the case applies only to the interpretation of the Tariff Act of March 3, 1883, and the court did not purport to reclassify the tomato for botanical or other purposes.

So, basically, they just declared it a vegetable for taxation purposes, and didn't attempt to change it's botanical identification as a fruit (which it is).
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twinchicken86
07/09/2012 12:34 pm
Level 5 : Apprentice Miner
Yep. Soup has it.
In english: Legally, a tomato is a vegetable. But scientifically, a tomato is a fruit.
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