Should Carrots Become The National Vegetable of The United States of America?

[798686]

I'll send all the peas to you- well, not those baby peas, they taste much nicer. And snow peas are nice, and... oh heck, i can't part with the peas either. Just make sure you purchase carrots by the crate on your next visit to the states, and buy the imported ones over in your local grocery. Carrot farmers and the world are depending on you!

LOL! peas are grim. I'll fight ya for the carrots. :wink: :biggrin1:

 

[Rikter8]

I would say Pear, but it's a Fruit. Pear because that's what many of us look like.

... Or Butternut Squash... that's a veggie, right?

 

[witch]

I vote for squash, with a side of steak, rare please

 

[Mr Ed in Mass]

Yeah, but too much has been taken from them already. It didn't seem right to swipe something else.

Wouldn't that be an honor for them instead ? Our earilest ancestors growing such an important crop?

 

[jason_els]

LOL! peas are grim. I'll fight ya for the carrots. :wink: :biggrin1:

Sugar snap peas fresh off the vine floating in ice water with a dill dip? It's ambrosia.

 

[jason_els]

Yeah, but too much has been taken from them already. It didn't seem right to swipe something else.

Corn is also a grain, technically not a vegetable.

 

[B_Hickboy]

Sugar snap peas fresh off the vine floating in ice water with a dill dip? It's ambrosia.

What he said...

 

[Mr Ed in Mass]

Corn is also a grain, technically not a vegetable.

Don't tell the Green Giant

 

[jason_els]

Don't tell the Green Giant

Oh hell no! I know what death and destruction he's capable of.

 

[D_Gunther Snotpole]

Tomatoes are out as they are technically a fruit-that makes it another vote for the tasty carrot!

Eggplants are technically a fruit or in some accounts, a berry.

Well, botanically, the tomato and the eggplant ... as well as cucumbers and squashes ... are all fruit.
But they're also classified as vegetables, which are typically served with dinner rather than dessert.
Vegetable is not a botanical term ... it's a culinary term.
In 1887, the US imposed a tariff on vegetables but not fruits.
It became of some moment whether the tomato would be classified as a fruit or a vegetable.
The Supreme Court settled the question in 1893 when it declared that tomatoes are vegetables, at least for the strict purposes of the particular Tariff Act in question.
New Jersey has named the tomato the state vegetable.
Arkansas declared the tomato both the state veggie and the state fruit ... and all in the same law.

 

[goodwood]

Hmm. Carrots are okay with me. i love those little baby carrots, raw to snack on throughout the day. I wonder how they top and peal those things.

 

[Drifterwood]

I'm rooting for carrots.

 

[798686]

Sugar snap peas fresh off the vine floating in ice water with a dill dip? It's ambrosia.

LOL! Swap them for some mushy peas n chips? :tongue:

 

[Northland]

This is just too complicated for me Senor-

Well, botanically, the tomato and the eggplant ... as well as cucumbers and squashes ... are all fruit.
But they're also classified as vegetables, which are typically served with dinner rather than dessert.
Vegetable is not a botanical term ... it's a culinary term.
In 1887, the US imposed a tariff on vegetables but not fruits.
It became of some moment whether the tomato would be classified as a fruit or a vegetable.
The Supreme Court settled the question in 1893 when it declared that tomatoes are vegetables, at least for the strict purposes of the particular Tariff Act in question.
New Jersey has named the tomato the state vegetable.
Arkansas declared the tomato both the state veggie and the state fruit ... and all in the same law.

New Jersey and Arkansas are weird places so they don't get a vote either.

Corn is also a grain, technically not a vegetable.

Picky picky.

Don't tell the Green Giant

Oh hell no! I know what death and destruction he's capable of.

He's also quite good at...oh, wait, I swore I'd never tell....

...carry on.

Wouldn't that be an honor for them instead ? Our earilest ancestors growing such an important crop?

Perhaps. I guess someone will need to find out.

I would say Pear, but it's a Fruit. Pear because that's what many of us look like.

... Or Butternut Squash... that's a veggie, right?

Pear? Interesting. Maybe we will need a National Fruit as well! Butternut squash has to be properly prepared or it makes me want to toss my cookies.

 

[Rikter8]

I would have said Zucchini, but the rest of the world already thinks were braggarts

 

[D_Gunther Snotpole]

This is just too complicated for me Senor

You should eat mo' ginger.

 

[thadjock]

Hmm. Carrots are okay with me. i love those little baby carrots, raw to snack on throughout the day. I wonder how they top and peal those things.

what do u think all those bunnies they test eye liner on do while they're being monitored for bleeding eyes?

 

[molotovmuffin]

Muffins.... they deserve their own food group.:tongue:

I'm rooting for carrots.

Root crops rawk... especially when oven roasted in combination with other roots.

Parsnips
Rutabagas* gets my vote
Beets
Turnips
Sweet Potatoes
Yams
Potatoes
Carrots

 

[Northland]

Muffins.... they deserve their own food group.:tongue:



Root crops rawk... especially when oven roasted in combination with other roots.

Parsnips
Rutabagas* gets my vote
Beets
Turnips
Sweet Potatoes
Yams
Potatoes
Carrots

Mmmm...carrot muffins....

 

[hud01]

Other. Corn or Maize is the native vegetable of the US