Try again, @Ken Anderson . Corn is a grain, not a vegetable. We just mostly eat it like it was a vegetable, although we use it in cereals and baking as a grain. I also enjoy most veggies, and have been trying to decide if I have a favorite. I think that what we call “root vegetables”, which would be carrots, beets, potatoes, etc., are actually not true vegetables either; but I guess if Ken can pick corn, I can choose yams........oops ! I meant to say sweet potatoes.
Wow! I'm learning stuff about veggies. Thought corn was. I ate collard greens growing up but only if i had to, nothing else green except green onions. Little else green. After I got on my on, I ate nothing green. Then I tried Okra, liked it both fried and boiled. I never liked much of that garden stuff, radishes, carrots. I've never been a gardner, always a shopper. My main staple was fried potatoes and pinto beans with an occasional mess of fried okra, a chunk of onion, and I liked corn bread but no one to cook it, so a couple of slices of fresh white bread (Rainbo). Ate my first Brussels Sprouts three years ago. Ate some again earlier this year. I started eating green stuff several years when I needed to lose weight. Still eating it, don't like most of it but eat it. Popeye told me the benifets of spinish years ago and I ate some then but decided it it took spinish to develope muscles like popeyes, I'd juist be a weakling. I get a hamburger I have them cut the lettuce and tomatoes . Guess I'm more of a fruit cake.
It's not as simple as that. Source: Healthline.com Source: Reference.com Here’s why corn is a fruit, capsicums are berries, and rhubarb’s a vegetable. -- Sciencealert.com
@Lon Tanner Yes, can't forget spinach. I like it both fresh and cooked. @Bill Boggs The fried potato! One of my favorite things. But I like a potato prepared anyway. Potatoes and beans sound good to me.
Grew up meat & potatoes. Routine check-up, about age 25, complaint was recurring sore throat, Doc noted B.P. was high. He "wrote it off". Told me that the sore throats were caused by "post-nasal drip", due to Chicago's foul air, etc. If I moved away to an arid (desert) climate, the only "cure" possible would ensue. Took a number of years to get all in order, but did leave Chicago, 1972, about 5 years later. Know what? The guy was right. The sore throats went away, in all places, Las Vegas. 5 years there, then 1 in Colorado, 1 more in Indiana, then 20 in Phoenix, 13 in Missouri, which proved the unhealthiest so far as my lungs were concerned, then back to AZ in 2012. For several years previous I was forced to use various inhalers to sustain breathing ability. Diagnosed with COPD, then Emphysema, it went away! DOCTORS! Do they know Jack Sh!t? I think I do. (he's my older nephew). I use no inhaler now at all. Walk for miles without pulling a hard breath. Gave the bunch of Albuterol inhalers provided by the Doc. back to him, asked him to give them out to folks needing them. My Emphysema was gone! He was flabbergasted. The veggies? Reason for the post, I know. My Cholesterol was high. Highest reading, about 260. I tried Niacin; NFG. Never ate many veggies, lifelong. Sure, my Mother made soups, other side dishes with veggies, even got me to eat Spinach when quite young (she made it taste delicious!). I began eating tons of veggies incorporating my daily ration of meats, beef, chicken, tuna, salmon, about 5 years ago. Cholesterol has dropped to as low as 192, last 227. I no longer worry about it. Been around the block, seen it, experienced it, worried about it (for years!), got lazy about routinely checking it, finally reached an "old age" marker where none of these "doomsday health prophecies" could continue to haunt and frighten me. The hell with all that. I'm 75, outlived most of my kin, Dad, 70, Mom, 79 (? oops), grandparents early 70s. Right now, I'm here to stay. Bet on it. Frank
To clear things up a bit, vegetable is a culinary term not a scientific one. Botanically tomatoes, peppers and eggplant are fruits, beets, turnips, and carrots are roots, potatoes are tubers, and beans and peas are legumes. But in the kitchen they are all vegetables.
ok, I admit that with all this talk I bought brussels sprouts the other day, just could not bring myself to cook them yet when there are so many other veggies I prefer on hand. so yesterday I did the unthinkable....I bought a jar of Cheez Whiz for the first time in my life as I do not care for the idea of cheese in a jar but I hear it will make the sprouts mighty tasty. will let you know....grin
Favorite would be a toss up: either Asparagus or Potato. Hated would be Zucchini, with Eggplant a close runner-up!