2006-09-19 17:47:50 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
I dunno, but I also just learned that they are really a fruit! Kinda like a tomato is really a fruit...
2006-09-19 17:50:45 · answer #1 · answered by Katherine 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The modern day eggplant is usually purple and gourd shaped but the early form, before selective breeding, was small, oval shaped and white. In other words, they looked liked eggs.
2006-09-19 18:11:09 · answer #2 · answered by Rillifane 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
"not everyone calls then eggplants, the British call then aubergines" amobea
oh so thats what egg plants were i thought they were a different wierd vegetable that i didnt know about
thanks
(whats a strawberry tree)
2006-09-23 07:18:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
not everyone calls then eggplants, the British call then aubergines.
They are called eggplants because their unripe fruit (it is a fruit because it has seeds in it, vegetables have no seeds) looks like eggs on the stem that they grow on. Does that help?
2006-09-19 18:11:16 · answer #4 · answered by Amoeba 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They are egg shaped?
Why are pineapples called pineapples, They don't look or smell like pine trees and have nothing in common in apples.
2006-09-19 17:52:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thank you for asking -- I have long wondered that myself! When I was a kid, I took the name literally, and thought if you sliced one open, there would be bright yellow yolks inside! ;-) Hope someone tells us a really good answer!
2006-09-19 17:56:33 · answer #6 · answered by hrhtheprincessofeire 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because they are shaped like an egg
2006-09-19 17:55:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is in the shape of an egg
2006-09-23 10:16:17 · answer #8 · answered by Emem 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because they look like a baloon with an egg inside it.
2006-09-19 17:52:28 · answer #9 · answered by Lisa V 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the same reason we call them beetroots when they have no sense of rythm whatsoever
2006-09-19 17:56:58 · answer #10 · answered by rosbif 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ahh but they are also called Brinjals or Aubergines!!!!
2006-09-19 19:06:27 · answer #11 · answered by peta g 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋