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Because we're to rich to eat offal.

Even the thought of Haggis makes me barf. I appreciate living in a country where I can refuse without offending because the law is on my side..

As a vegetarian, I prefer to see the Haggis running free on the mountainsides where they belong.

Would that be Haggi or Haggises?

Watermelon is a vegetable.

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 690283)

Because we're to rich to eat offal.

That's awful.

But yet hot dogs and ground beef and sausage are legal....

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Originally Posted by monster (Post 690311)

Watermelon is a vegetable.

from Wikipedia

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Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.), family Cucurbitaceae) can be both the fruit and the plant of a vine-like (scrambler and trailer) plant originally from southern Africa, and is one of the most common types of melon. This flowering plant produces a special type of fruit known by botanists as a pepo, a berry which has a thick rind (exocarp) and fleshy center (mesocarp and endocarp); pepos are derived from an inferior ovary, and are characteristic of the Cucurbitaceae. The watermelon fruit, loosely considered a type of melon (although not in the genus Cucumis), has a smooth exterior rind (green, yellow and sometimes white) and a juicy, sweet interior flesh (usually pink, but sometimes orange, yellow, red and sometimes green if not ripe). It is also commonly used to make a variety of salads, most notably fruit salad.

So there. Watermelon is a fruit. And it's special. And that's one big berry.

it's still a vegetable. And it's the state vegetable of Oklahoma.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...ryId=130729448

That is an odd explanation of why watermelon would be a vegetable. Biologically, it is a fruit, because it is the seed container. Likewise, cucumbers and gourds are also fruits, biologically. They are colloquially considered vegetables because they are not sweet, and due to tradition, neither of which applies to watermelon.

Of course, 'vegetable' doesn't have a biological meaning akin to fruit, so definitions are somewhat subjective.

And one could definitely say it's not an animal or mineral.

Like pumpkins, watermelons are catapult ammunitions

listen, Oklahoma says it's a vegetable, so it's freaking vegetable, OKAY?

:lol:

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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey (Post 690658)

Well...I'd argue with you, but, I ain't fucking with Oklahoma.

Where the wind comes sweeping down the plains...

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Originally Posted by monster (Post 690645)

And it's the state vegetable of Oklahoma.

Terry Schivo was the state vegetable of Florida.