Tomatoes Are Fruit, But The Supreme Court Once Ruled That They’re Vegetables

Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson

Today in 1893, the highest court in the land made a controversial ruling that would profoundly affect Americans to this day: the US Supreme Court ruled that the tomato was a vegetable. Plus: today in 1999, Vermont not only named apple pie its official state pie, it outlined the officially correct way to serve the state pie.

The Supreme Court and the Great Tomato Controversy (IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law SCOTUS Now)

The obscure Supreme Court case that decided tomatoes are vegetables (Washington Post)

Vermont State Pie (Netstate)

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