As a major guacamole and mashed potato fan the answer is no. Too many major differences. Potato is a vegetable and avocado is a fruit. Mashed potato is primarily potato with spices and an oil while guac is a fruit with a few other fruits, fruit juices, vegetables like onion, and some spices. Guac also functions primarily as a dip while mashed potato is stand alone with the ability to function as a dip. They aren't similar enough to be analogous.
Vegetable is a culinary category but not a botanical one. Fruit is a botanical and a culinary category and the two categories overlap but are not identical. Tomatoes are fruits (botanically) and vegetables (culinarily) but not fruits (culinarily).
Is a tuber not a type of vegetable in the same way a leaf and a root can be a vegetable? Fruits are not vegetables obviously. If Tubers, roots, and leaves do not fall under the classification of vegetable then I suppose it truly does not exist.
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sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 32 pts · 269d
As a major guacamole and mashed potato fan the answer is no. Too many major differences. Potato is a vegetable and avocado is a fruit. Mashed potato is primarily potato with spices and an oil while guac is a fruit with a few other fruits, fruit juices, vegetables like onion, and some spices. Guac also functions primarily as a dip while mashed potato is stand alone with the ability to function as a dip. They aren't similar enough to be analogous.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 268d
Also, potatoes are Peruvian not Irish
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 268d
Vegetables aren't real. Potatoes are a tuber, avocado are a fruit, onion is a root, etc.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 268d
Vegetable is a culinary category but not a botanical one. Fruit is a botanical and a culinary category and the two categories overlap but are not identical. Tomatoes are fruits (botanically) and vegetables (culinarily) but not fruits (culinarily).
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 268d
Is that why people look at me funny when I compliment my friend's fruit salad (it's actually green beans almondine)
PunnyName@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 175d
Nerco-ing this for relevant Tom Cardy.
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 268d
Vegetables are the parts of a plant that aren't fruit imo
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 268d
But that's just incorrect. A potato is a tuber, not a vegetable, just like avocados are fruits and not vegetables.
sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 268d
Is a tuber not a type of vegetable in the same way a leaf and a root can be a vegetable? Fruits are not vegetables obviously. If Tubers, roots, and leaves do not fall under the classification of vegetable then I suppose it truly does not exist.
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 268d
Yeah, leaves and roots aren't vegetables any more than fruits are. Vegetables really don't exist, it's all just various plant parts that we eat.
protist@mander.xyz · 18 pts · 269d
But is Irish guacamole just Peruvian guacamole served in Ireland?
rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net · 10 pts · 268d
Guys is this mashed thing this other thing because it's mashed too?
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 269d
They will not take away my mash n toast
notsure@fedia.io · 5 pts · 269d
...i have not been paid or compensated to endorse this post...
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 268d
This seems like as good a place as any to assert a much more defensible position: frito pie is Texan poutine.
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 269d
I feel like reading this is like a thought crime.
Zier@fedia.io · 3 pts · 268d
This would be true if a potato was a fruit.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 268d
Potatoes are food for famine not thought.