I don't know why tomatoes are always the go-to "technically a fruit"
There are ones that are a lot weirder
Legumes are also fruits, so peanut butter is a smoothie
Heck, refried beans are a smoothie!
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Because some people dont have the mindset of yhe biological(the scientific mindset) and culinary(the common mindset) seperate.
Tomato is common for it because its a fruit biologically and a vegetable culinarily.
Other examples of it in common practice is "berries". Culinarily, strawberries and raspberries are berries, and bananas arent. Biologically its the opposite.
I think its fair to say a smoothie at least means you drink it from a cup. Is this how you're refried beans?
I have actually done that… well, I had a medical problem with swallowing and I was making shakes of all kinds of savory foods. Sorta like smooth soups… chicken and broth, roast beef with rice and potatoes, beans with salsa and cilantro… pretty good actually. I kinda miss the chicken milk.
Smoothie bowls are pretty popular.
Wait you don't?
Getting that nightshade smoothie 😎
datura nightmare hallucinations 😎
How many of those Solanum species are poisonous? New flavours indeed!
Even if you exclude that, I can't imagine a Solanum tuberosum smoothie would be that delicious
I can imagine it. I've never had another potato-based item that isn't 10/10.
Mashed potatoes anyone?
Tomato toxic when it green, but delicious when it red. Creeping nightshade toxic when it green, but has anyone even tried it when it red? Probably delicious.
Since when are green tomatoes toxic? I eat fried green tomatoes every summer...
Oh, I'm.... I'm so sorry.
From just some cursory googling it looks like they are toxic when raw, but frying them neutralizes the toxicity. That's probably why you've never noticed!
Potatoes fall into this category too of both delicious and nightshade fun. So tastes great like anti freeze but it takes a lot longer to finally get you.
What? I love green tomatoes:(
Baba ganoush is pretty good
One of the only smoked smoothies out there!
Brisket smoothie. Your comment put that image in my head so I want it to be everyone else's problem now
🤢🥹
I think the formula was "preexisting 'fruit' pureé generally considered a vegetable" not a pitch for new episodes of "Will It Blend?" 🤗
Came here to say that!
Chilis peppers are also fruit, and there's smoothie of them.
I make banging pineapple kiwi salsa. It's basically a spicy smoothie with Hungarian wax peppers.
Isn't that just Sriracha?
Just one of the many forms of pepper smoothie.
I have eaten American Black Nightshade berries before. They taste like tiny tomatoes mixed with blueberries. I haven't had a full smoothie of them before though
Yeah was gonna say a smoothie of black nightshade would be great.
Would need some other fruits for flavor but would be a good addition
That Weird Fruit Explorer guy on Youtube has made some pretty interesting solanum smoothies and weird ketchups.
Demetrius, give it a fucking rest.
Fruit is a culinary term as well as a botanical one and all the "tomatos are fruit" discourse stems from mixing them up and is therefore stupid.
You know what, cucumber is not even a fruit, but once you try adding just a little to your fruit smoothie, there'll be no turning back.
Cucumber is a fruit though
TIL