Oh look, Bobbett Salad.
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According to the EU, tomatoes are both fruits and vegetables. This is because “vegetable” is not a botanical term. Botanists say tomatoes are fruit because they have seeds and grow from the flower of a tomato plant. Even so, cooks are generally smart enough not to put them into a fruit salad. Since tomatoes, like other types of produce considered a “vegetable”, tend to end up in savoury dishes, often ones that are cooked, from a culinary POV they are classified as vegetables.
(Many types of “vegetable” are botanically fruit, including all legumes such as peas, lentils, etc. Potatoes, of course, are tubers.)
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I think Biden is more of an ice cream guy.
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It has to be one of the three, right? Animal/Vegetable/Mineral
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Other than the pretty niche field of bow draw weight, I haven’t seen # used to represent pounds before. Is it a regional thing or am I just in too much of a metric bubble to come across something that’s relatively common?
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It has been the pound sign for a long time - well before hashtag became a thing. On a phone keypad the # is called the pound key.
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Been used for ages in cooking.
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Kill it! Kill it now while we have the chance!
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Yes, I know it’s correct. As an archer, I’ve seen it used in that specific context for ages. Was just commenting that I’ve never seen it used for a pound of flour, nails, etc and wondering if it was more common elsewhere (in this case, elsewhere means “not NS, Canada”).
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Per “Special Relativity”, the kitty is approaching the speed of light. I wish it good fortune. Bogspeed.
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The only aspic ‘recipe’ that I like.
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And fungi.
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Well TIL. I thought it was a typo when I saw it.
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Fungi are for sure a separate group from plants. Whether that means you stop counting them as vegetable or not is something taxonomists don’t really care about, not using the term any more.
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… I need to get more cyanobacteria in my diet 
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I was puzzled too. I’ve used to indicate ‘number’ in technical writing, as in ‘item #4’.
Poor misunderstood octothorpe
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I’ve lived in several regions of the US, and worked in kitchens and on construction sites, and using # for pounds has been pretty common throughout. I didn’t realize it wasn’t common with our friendly neighbors to the north!
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