Reading Strategy 2 - IS a TOMATO a Fruit or a Vegetable? [독해와 작문 천재 안병규 Strategy Builder]

IS a TOMATO a Fruit or a Vegetable? 

 

Tomatoes are well-loved everywhere. 

 

Cooks around the world do magic with them. 

 

There are more than 4,000 types of tomatoes and very many ways to eat them. 

 

Without tomatoes, we would have no tomato ketchup or pizza.

 

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Spaghetti would not taste the same, either. 

 

After the potato, the tomato is the most popular vegetable in the world. 

 

But wait—is it really a vegetable? 

 

Maybe you think, “Who cares?” However, this question once came before the highest court in the United States in the 1890s. 

 

The government counted tomatoes as vegetables, and it imposed a 10% import tax on them. 

 

Importers, on the other hand, argued that tomatoes were fruits and should not be taxed.

 

 

 

The question went all the way to the Supreme Court. 

 

The justices looked at both science and the daily use of tomatoes before deciding. 

 

They admitted that, scientifically speaking, tomatoes were fruits because they were the part of the plant holding the seeds. 

 

However, they considered that in everyday life people in the U.S. treated tomatoes as vegetables. 

 

For example, they ate tomatoes with meat or fish, not as a dessert. 

 

Therefore, the court ruled in 1893 that under customs law, tomatoes counted as vegetables. 

 

The importers had to continue to pay the tariff.

 

 

 

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