On Wed, 08 May 2013 15:28:33 -0400, James Silverton
> wrote:

>On 5/8/2013 2:44 PM, tert in seattle wrote:
>> James Silverton wrote:
>>> Admittedly it was in a "gourmet" store but I saw Fava beans selling for
>>> $4 a pound. The pods must weigh as much as the beans they contain so
>>> that's about $8 a pound for a vegetable! I've never seen even asparagus
>>> costing as much as that.
>>
>> this being Usenet I'm obligated to note that beans are not vegetables
>>
>
>I'm not going to ask your definition but in mine they certainly are! My
>definition depends on their use: fruits, vegetables, meats, fishes and
>grains. To avoid misunderstanding, a tomato is a vegetable to me and I
>might have a subset of vegetables to include salad greens.

I'm a gardener, so beans are vegetables. I'm ok with the part of the
tomato that I eat being a fruit-- but I call the entire plant a
vegetable. I can't decide on rhubarb, though. Seems like it
should be a fruit because I make sweet pies with it--- but now I'm
doing a lot more savory things, so maybe it *is* a vegetable.

Jim