What strange line of reasoning might have lead her to believe this. Obviously it's not so, but how can an otherwise functioning adult make it to adulthood believing that cheese is a vegetable?
I'm looking for serious answers here. Unless you're just dying to say something really witty.
2006-11-22 09:58:47 · 12 answers · asked by Amsterdam 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
There is no fact based reason she should be concluding cheese is a vegetable but she isn't the only one. Check out the link below for a petition to officially recognize cheese as a vegetable. Seems kooky, then again if you were telling everyone 10 yrs ago that Pluto was not a planet you would have seemed kooky too.
2006-11-22 10:34:48 · answer #1 · answered by Mere Exposure 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, sorry, I'm all out of witty.
Perhaps having your friend define what she means by 'vegetable" is in order. I would have thought a quick visit to a "How Cheese is Made from Cow's Milk" web site, book or Food Channel show might have solved it, but when you have, as you say, "an otherwise functioning adult", I think you'd want to better understand:
1) Does your friend understand exactly how cheese is made?
2) Does your friend have a reasonable working definition of "vegetable"?
3) Can your friend admit that animal milk (cow, goat, whatever) doesn't qualify as a vegetable - at least under most people's working definition?
Best to you. Should be an interesting conversation.
2006-11-22 18:03:39 · answer #2 · answered by Timothy W 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cheese is not a vegetable.
Your friend might want to ask her co-worker for some sort of explanation. What a strange thing to say! Maybe she was hoping and wishing that cheese could be a low calorie, fiber filled good for you food.
2006-11-22 18:05:19 · answer #3 · answered by redeemed 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Was she one of those educational system administrators back in the 1990s that said that ketchup was a vegetable, too? Boy, some people can be really moronic in this world. No wonder so many of our children are obese - they can get all of their food pyramid requirements out of a cheeseburger! Bun - grain; burger - meat/protein; cheese - dairy; ketchup and pickle - vegetable. For pete's sake!
2006-11-22 18:04:21 · answer #4 · answered by quatrapiller 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe because she heard it was good for you and she associates that with vegetables? I asked a group of people at a party the 5 food groups, and got answers like, ketchup, bread, and sugar. Go figure that? Educated adults...ha.
I read that the average IQ in America is 100. That's scarey.
2006-11-22 18:05:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
A vegetable is grown, so cheese is not a vegetable. Cheese is made from cows.
2006-11-22 18:55:28 · answer #6 · answered by CrowsFeet 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Possibly it's she who is the vegetable!
I cannot see how any "sane" and "rational" person could ever think that cheese was a vegetable...maybe she was pulling your leg...
2006-11-22 18:02:43 · answer #7 · answered by sarch_uk 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Cheese is not a veggie. I also don't know how she came to this conclusion. Tell her that would mean a cow is a veggie. If she agrees to that too then she's been pulling your leg!
2006-11-22 18:02:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your friend's coworker is stoned. But if you got a kick out of that story, you may enjoy the site below. It's hilarious.
2006-11-22 18:22:55 · answer #9 · answered by lcraesharbor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Surely cheese is dairy! However there is cheeseplant, but you do not get cheese from it! Perhaps your friends co-worker comes from Canada! they are all idiots there!
2006-11-22 18:03:37 · answer #10 · answered by elaine g 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋