[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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(//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/upload/2kdc3abadcb9.jpg) you mean this?
I thought that the Greece and Macedonia are the homelands of watermelon?
They also grow it in the warm parts of the United States.
strange .. and did you know that tomatoes are considered a fruit ?
Gregg wrote:
strange .. and did you know that tomatoes are considered a fruit ?
yea...Paradise Fruit
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.
best veggie ever then!
A veggie, no? Wow. SD's right, it's the bes veggie on the planet then!