Which vegetable is never sold tinned, frozen, freeze dried, cooked or anything else other than fresh?

What has its seeds on the outside?

(In reply to Exotic culinary by brianjn)

To say that strawberries have their seeds on the outside is not accurate.  The so-called "seeds" of a strawberry are called achenes, and are in actuality the true fruits of the plant.  The seeds are found within the achenes. Each seed of the strawberry is surrounded by a pericarp.  The pericarp for the strawberry, relative to the seed, is smaller than that of most fruit, but its existence contradicts the designation that the seeds are outside the fruit.  

For a little more trivia -- the fleshy tissue of the strawberry that many (incorrectly) associate as the fruit is, technically, a vegetable.

Edited on August 11, 2006, 10:49 pm

Posted by Dej Mar on 2006-08-11 18:47:48