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Posted: 3/28/2009 11:16:41 AM EDT

I just read that at some point they decided that the tomato was vegetable.

Posted: 3/28/2009 11:21:07 AM EDT

[#1]

Nix v. Hedden, 149 U.S. 304 (1893).

Like many other cases, this one arose out of a tax law. There was a federal tariff on imported vegetables, but not on imported fruits. The Court ruled that the tomato is botanically a fruit, but a vegetable under common useage and thus had to pay the tariff.

ETA: I wouldn't exactly call this a "famous" case.

Posted: 3/28/2009 11:33:20 AM EDT

[#2]

It was on ARFCOM, so ipso facto it is famous.

Posted: 3/28/2009 7:35:33 PM EDT

[#3]

There was a related instance in Europe a couple of years ago, when the EU declared the carrot to be a fruit. The definition was based on the fact that some Portuguese village that they had never heard of had a tradition of making carrot jam.

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