Watermelon is a vegetable?

[Lil Me]

[span id="article"][font face="Verdana,Sans-serif"][font color="black" size="2"][span id="article"][span id="intelliTXT"] OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma already has the strawberry as its official fruit, so the state Senate cleared the way Tuesday to [span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 64);"]declare the watermelon the state vegetable[/span].[/p] The measure was introduced in the House by Democratic Rep. Joe Dorman of Rush Springs, site of an annual watermelon festival in August.
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[RejdzegejnstdwashM]

you mean this?

I thought that the Greece and Macedonia are the homelands of watermelon?

[Lil Me]

They also grow it in the warm parts of the United States.  

[Gregg]

strange .. and did you know that tomatoes are considered a fruit ?  

[RejdzegejnstdwashM]

Gregg wrote:
 strange .. and did you know that tomatoes are considered a fruit ?

 
 yea...Paradise Fruit

[P.C.]

I think the misconception of a tomato being a vegetable had something to do with shipping taxes on fruit, so they called it a veggie.

[Sportsdude]

best veggie ever then!  

[Lise]

A veggie, no? Wow. SD's right, it's the bes veggie on the planet then!