Garfield by Jim Davis for March 19, 2024

What’s more important is that tomatoes make ketchup. Or catsup depending on who you ask.

IIRC there was an old court case relating to imports that declared that whether a food is a fruit or a vegetable was determined by how it is used. Use a tomato as a vegetable and it’s a vegetable, although I don’t know what using it as a fruit even means.

Knowlege is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to use a tomato in a fruit salad. Philosophy means contemplating if ketchup is a smoothie.

Fruit or vegetable. Tomaahto or tomaayto. Gimme that instead of that health hazardous sugary junk food.

I just learned a cucumber is a fruit – and it’s 98% water, and 4% carbohydrates.

How did I not know this?

More importantly, why do I care?

While you eat the sugary treats, I’d say it’s a vegetable.

For the sake of this gag. Tomato is a fruit, you’re the vegetable……

No more lasagna or pizza for you then?

With my four main lower chewing teeth gone, a 5 pack of mini-donuts and coffee will make today’s breakfast.

Botanically-speaking, tomatoes are classified as fruits and not vegetables.

Tomatoes were once considered to be poisonous, at least in Europe. One reason was because it belongs to the nightshade family. Another was that some people had died after eating tomatoes, but it was because they ate them off of pewter plates, and the acid from the tomato leached some lead off the plate and gave them lead poisoning.

Garfield should care. No tomato means no tomato sauce. No tomato sauce means no lasagna.

Having the donut and throwing the tomato at Jon for whatever reason…

Gags I hate raw tomatoes. I’m having a donut, too.

Knowledge: tomatoes are a fruitWisdom: not putting them in a smoothie

What ever happened to Garfield and his passion for lasagna???

Another great message from the world’s laziest comic strip creator.

Tomatoes are the platypus of the plant world. Except that I probably wouldn’t eat a platypus. Not even a P.L.T. sandwich.

Fruit. Actually a berry.

The beloved tomato deserves a new category, like maybe ‘fruitable.’

Hmmm – bacon and tomato sandwich.

Catsup was originally a fish sauce made with fermented anchovies.

“WHO CARES? I’M HAVING A DONUT”

(imagines a different version of this part of the dialogue of this cartoon)

I DON’T KNOW. I’M HAVING A DONUT

Neither! Tomatoes are technically berries because they are fleshy fruits without pits that develop from a single flower.

Ol Garf’s overlooking the humble ’mato as a primary ingredient of one his favorite foods: P I Z Z A!

Why take chances…

Tomatoes are delicious – stewed!

Did Garfield stop to consider the tomato sauce/paste in pizza?

Nah it is a berry

I’d rather have the tomato. Salad, soup, sauce…

Garfield, you should be grateful that tomatoes are the main source of catsup, hot sauce, and especially tomato paste, which is used in pizza, lasagna, and any other pasta dish.

Technically a lot of vegetables are “fruit,” i.e. seed bearing parts of the plant.

it is a fruit, the government classified it as a vegetable so they could say cheap food with ketchup on it counted as a serving of vegetables in school lunches

It’s botanically a fruit and culinarily a vegetable.

fruit, botanically speaking…in 1893 the US Supreme Court declared it to be a vegetable " for purposes of tariffs, imports and customs."

Fruit or vegetable? Oh yeah, carb…

Eating a donut that suddenly appears out of nowhere.

…this is more like me than I’m entirely comfortable admitting

Now if only someone could invent a nice, nutritious tomato with a hole in the middle and a sugar-glaze skin. :)

he needs to watch more FOX news where there is a balance of nature commercial every 5 minutes and if you want to buy Gold that’s your place

The Cat’s up to do not let tomatoes to matter too much over the donut. Fill holes with due net prudence…

Botanically a fruit, culinarily a vegetable.

we do know this lad! it tis a food

Garfield needs to learn that tomatoes are what makes pizza and lasagna possible.

Tomatoes make great cat toys according to my four.

Salty fruit, as opposed to sweet or sour fruit.

Seed pod = fruit. Leaf, flower, root or stem = vegetable.

Intelligence is knowing that the tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing that you don’t put tomatoes in fruit salad.

But tomatoes are main component of lasagna

If Jon were to make tomato sauce for a lasagna with that tomato, it would be different.

Botanically, it’s a fruit. But in real life it’s a vegetable.

Bill Nye once said they’re a fruit because they contain seeds.