Comments on: You Say To-mah-to, I say To-may-to. http://www.taxgirl.com/you-say-to-mah-to-i-say-to-may-to/ Paying taxes is painful... but reading about them shouldn't be. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:33:00 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Kelly http://www.taxgirl.com/you-say-to-mah-to-i-say-to-may-to/comment-page-1/#comment-3180 Kelly Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:20:07 +0000 http://www.taxgirl.com/you-say-to-mah-to-i-say-to-may-to/#comment-3180 Jake - They did use science and agreed that science said it was a fruit. But they also found that popular perception (!) and usage made it classifiable as a vegetable. The court said: "The passages cited from the dictionaries define the word 'fruit' as the seed of plants, or that part of plants which contains the seed, and especially the juicy, pulpy products of certain plants, covering and containing the seed. These definitions have no tendency to show that tomatoes are 'fruit,' as distinguished from 'vegetables,' in common speech, or within the meaning of the tariff act." If you want to read the whole thing, you can visit here: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=CASE&court=US&vol=149&page=304 Jake -
They did use science and agreed that science said it was a fruit. But they also found that popular perception (!) and usage made it classifiable as a vegetable. The court said:

“The passages cited from the dictionaries define the word ‘fruit’ as the seed of plants, or that part of plants which contains the seed, and especially the juicy, pulpy products of certain plants, covering and containing the seed. These definitions have no tendency to show that tomatoes are ‘fruit,’ as distinguished from ‘vegetables,’ in common speech, or within the meaning of the tariff act.”

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]]> By: Jake http://www.taxgirl.com/you-say-to-mah-to-i-say-to-may-to/comment-page-1/#comment-3178 Jake Sun, 12 Aug 2007 03:46:25 +0000 http://www.taxgirl.com/you-say-to-mah-to-i-say-to-may-to/#comment-3178 I still don't get that. Did they use science in their classifications at all? I still don’t get that. Did they use science in their classifications at all?

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