I made it home!

Also, when I was a kid, the tooth fairy brought me a quarter, but my best friend a dollar.

When one of my last teeth fell out, when I was about 10 or so, my mom told me to put it under my pillow for the tooth fairy, and I rolled my eyes and said something like, "You mean, so you can give me a dollar? I'm too old for the tooth fairy." My mom said that the tooth fairy doesn't bring anything to kids who say they don't believe in her. I said fine, and I wrote a note to the tooth fairy, saying that there was a recession going on, and money isn't worth what it used to be worth, and I really should get more that a dollar for a tooth, since a dollar was what I had gotten when I first started losing my teeth four or five years earlier. I got a twenty.

Well, if it's good enough to reduce import tariffs, it's good enough for me! "Eat fruit " officially checked off of To Do list.

BTW, can I count rhubarb as a fruit?

This is a world in which tomatoes count as vegetables, because that's who they hang out with. Rhubarb hangs out with strawberries, so I say it's a fruit.

Relatedly: is edamame a vegetable? Like lima beans? Or is it more of a protein-y "pulse" thing? (I can't quite remember what "pulses" are, only that they are a food category.)

Still relatedly because, food: HOLY SHIT, roasted broccoli is SO GOOD. I want to roast ALL THE THINGS.

Relatedly: is edamame a vegetable? Like lima beans? Or is it more of a protein-y "pulse" thing? (I can't quite remember what "pulses" are, only that they are a food category.)

Edamame is soy beans. I think "pulses" is British for "legumes"? (At least, that's mostly how I've seen it used.)

Edamame is soy beans.

I knew edamame is soy beans, but I'm still fuzzy on the category. Protein, not vegetable?

I gave the boys a dollar coin for each of theirs. It seems like I remember getting a quarter, but it has been a long while. I lost my last one at 59 and didn't get a thing but a big dentist bill. It didn't have an adult tooth under it so it never came out naturally.

Protein and vegetable aren't mutually exclusive categories.

(Sorry. Describing a food as "a protein" or "a carb" is a weird pet peeve of mine. Those are things contained in foods, not food categories. And I know plenty of diet plans use those terms, and it annoys me both in terms of scientific accuracy and in terms of the weird relationship to food that I've seen it foster. Not that using those terms makes everyone have a weird relationship to food -- just that my most significant experience with a food system that uses those classifications was a pretty bad one, that involved an attitude toward food that I found really damaging.)

(And I'll stop talking now, because this is getting way more into psychology than nutrition.)

Protein and vegetable aren't mutually exclusive categories.

I literally don't know how else to ask my question. What is edamame? Is it considered a vegetable? If not, what is it considered?