Why do English people think potato is a vegetable???

Answer 1

Because it is a vegetable , that's why .

Potatoes are a vegetable

as are swedes
carrots
parsnips
sweet potato
peas
beans
sweet corn
cabbage
Brussels sprouts
cauliflower
and aubergines

Don't ask! ----WE just accept them as vegetable

Tomato , is a fruit !!
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Answer 2

English people think a Potato is a vegetable because the definition of a vegetable is something that was grown in the ground (tomato is a fruit)

Answer 3

Technically it is. But because of the high starch and unhealthy nature of white potatos, it is recently bieng pushed as not a vegetable. Potatoes also saved europe (except the snotty french who refused to eat anything that came from the ground) during the times of war. when countries would slash and burn villiage crops, the potato was safe underground. Hence french stupidity once again raises its head and caused the starvation and deaths of thier own people.

Answer 4

Why do Americans want to change the way things are and have been for hundreds of years? We better say it is a vegetable before a Bill of Starchy Foodstuffs is entered meaning that the potato will become a fruit thanks to the USA. POTATOES ARE VEGETABLES. they are tubers - like sweet potatotes, like cassava, etc etc. is it a fruit, a fish, mammal, bird, cereal? No - it's a vegetable. What do you think it is?

Answer 5

you say potato, I say....err...potato.

Thats because it *IS* a vegetable!! What on earth did you think it is??!!! More specifically its a ROOT VEGETABLE.

Root vegetables are underground plant parts used as vegetables. They are called root vegetables for lack of a better generic term, but include both true roots such as tuberous roots and taproots, as well as non-roots such as tubers, rhizomes, corms, and bulbs. Several types contain both taproot and hypocotyl tissue, and it may be difficult to distinguish the two.

Regardless of anatomical type, root vegetables are generally storage organs, enlarged to store energy in the form of carbohydrates. They differ in the concentration and the balance between sugars, starches, and other types of carbohydrate.

Of particular economic importance are those with a high carbohydrate concentration in the form of starch. These starchy root vegetables are important staple foods, particularly in tropical regions. They overshadow the cereals throughout much of West Africa, Central Africa, and Oceania, where they are used directly or mashed to make foufou or poi.

The potato, or Solanum tuberosum as its technically known is the most common root vegatable, but others you may know include Pastinaca sativa (parsnip), Daucus carota (carrot), Ipomoea batatas (sweet potato), Eleocharis dulcis (Chinese water chestnut) and Brassica (turnip).

What on earth did you think it was? An animal??!

Answer 6

Well, it is a starchy vegetable. It is not like rice or wheat (also full of starches), which are grains/crops but you can't say that about potato. Potato is a vegetable but not in the same sense as cabbage or carrot.

Answer 7

this is really strange cos i was sitting in a cafe this morning and overheard a conversation between 2 english speaking foriegn men talking about some freind that had said is a potato a vegatable and i wanted to tell them but that would have been rude so now i can answer on here and gain a couple of points, we don,t think a potato is a vegatable we know it is it is one of the vegatables in the tuber catorgory it is grown in the ground and most definately is a vegatable why what the heck do you think it is it isn,t an animal mammmal or fruit or fish so please enlighten us what do you say it is look it up if you don,t believe us

Answer 8

The definition of a potato includes the word vegetable.

potato

n 1: an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland [syn: white potato, Irish potato, murphy, spud, tater] 2: annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden VEGETABLE; vines are poisonous

Answer 9

Not just English, the majority of the world would probably say it is a vegetable.

Answer 10

Because it IS a vegetable. Would you have potatoes with ice cream,or potato trifle,or potatoes with custard? Don't know where you got the idea from that it is'nt a veg