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In a message dated 1/19/2014 3:50:51 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
klausknuth@xxxxxxx writes:
If I was a botanist I would probably object to the title: Almonds are not nuts, they are fruits. True. The almond in a shell is a fruit. The Almond unshelled is I don't
know what it is called. The seed is at the center. under common usage it is
called a nut and that is what section of the grocery store has it in.
Many things are mis-labeled in our culture. A tomato is also a fruit but we
know it as a vegetable.
There was a tax on vegetables in the ~1850'-1860's and this grocer refused
to pay the tax. Case went all the way to the US Supreme Court which ruled in
1857 (i may be off the date by a decade or two) that the tomato was a vegetable
for tax purposes. So tomatoes are called vegetable today even though
biologically they are fruits just like almonds in a
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