'Life of the Party'
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Fair enough. I'll just eat it and consider it not a Twinkie and therefore a win.
(Honestly, in my quest to eat more vegetables, when I can't figure out is something even qualifies as a vegetable, it makes me want to give up.)
(I learned long ago that the corn-and-potatoes-aren't-REALLY-vegetables-and-carrots-barely-count ship has sailed. I was hoping other things that grow in the ground would be more clear cut.)
You can make a quest to eat more plants?
Well, Teppy, do you consider other beans veggies? I would say I'm more likely to consider edamame a veggie because (a) it's green and (b) sometimes it's in veggie mixes, but generally I'd think it is in the "legumes" category, more?
You can make a quest to eat more plants?
I know, but things that grow in the ground don't get counted as vegetables, like corn! I have one sanctimonious friend on FB who never EVER missed the opportunity to tell me I'm not eating vegetables if I think corn and carrots are vegetables. (They're "really sugar", according to her.)
Pfft. Next thing she'll tell me Corn Nuts aren't nutritious! Especially the BBQ flavor!
I don't think I understand what would make something that is a plant or part of a plant not qualify as a vegetable.
do you consider other beans veggies?
Green beans/string beans (are they the same???) and lima beans, yes. Are snow peas beans? Peas are legumes, right? But they seem like veggies to me. I think, like you said, it might be the fact they're green.
But then I wouldn't think of chickpeas, black beans, or kidney beans as veggies.
I really just want to be able to count my servings of veggies and know I actually ate veggies and not some impostor that's really a starchy protein/legume/something.
Damn it, back to Corn Nuts.
(I do love Corn Nuts.)
Pffle to your friends, Tep. Corn and carrots are totally vegetable. They're not greens, and they contain more carbs/starches than, say, kale, but they're still vegetables, and better for you than potato chips.
(Honestly, in my quest to eat more vegetables, when I can't figure out is something even qualifies as a vegetable, it makes me want to give up.)
And this is a major part of my issue with these sorts of classifications. Any definition of "vegetable" that's anything other than "food that grows as a plant" will, by necessity, be at least somewhat arbitrary.
Corn is a vegetable, fuck that noise. Corn, potatoes, carrots, all vegetables. What else would they be?
Chocolate is a vegetable.