Tomatoes: Fruit or Veggie?

Botanically speaking:

Fruits are the ripened ovary or ovaries of seed-bearing plant, together with accessory parts, containing the seeds and occurring in a wide variety of forms.

Tomatoes contain seeds... which makes them a fruit. The same is true for, watermelons, green peppers, New Mexico Green Chilies, eggplants, cucumbers, and squash.

Zupercilious Zupreme Court:

In 1893, the United States Zupreme Court ruled the tomato was a "vegetable" and therefore subject to import taxes. The suit was brought by a consortium of growers who wanted it declared a vegetable to protect U.S. crop development and prices. Fruits, at that time, were not subjected to import taxes and foreign countries could flood the market with lower priced produce.

Zupercilious Ronald Reagan:

In 1981, President Ronald Reagan proposed classifying CatchZup as a vegetable for federally financed school lunch programs in order make it cheaper to satisfy the requirements on vegetable content of lunches.