Is a French Fry A Vegetable? 64 members have voted

[Slavic]

In June 2004, the United States Department of Agriculture, with the advisement of a federal district judge from Beaumont, Texas, classified batter-coated french fries as a vegetable under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act. Although this was primarily done for trade reasons – french fries do not meet the standard to be listed as a "processed food" – it received significant media attention partially due to the documentary Super Size Me.

 

so there

[Prez]

To me, french fries are so greased up and battered that it literally takes away any meaning of a vegetable to the name. Although it is technically, and officially, a vegetable, as stated by Slavic. ^^

[Eldest]

3/4 Vegetable 1/4 fat

Rather 1/4 Vegetable and 3/4 Fat..

[Karnivor]

Rather 1/4 Vegetable and 3/4 Fat..

 

Pretty much.

 

It is technically a vegetable.

[Creeping Death]

fuck for some reason i thought the potato was a fruit

[Alexandra]

According to the transitive property of equality, if a = b and b = c, then a = c.

So just plug your options into the variables:

 

if Vegetable = Potato, and Potato = French Fry, then Vegetable = French Fry!

 

See, you can use math anywhere!

:3

[efrozen]

In mathematics, a binary relation R over a set X is transitive if whenever an element a is related to an element b, and b is in turn related to an element c, then a is also related to c.

 

Transitivity is a key property of both partial order relations and equivalence relations.

 

Examples

For example, "is greater than," "is at least as great as," and "is equal to" (equality) are transitive relations:

 

whenever A > B and B > C, then also A > C

whenever A ≥ B and B ≥ C, then also A ≥ C

whenever A = B and B = C, then also A = C

For some time, economists and philosophers believed that preference was a transitive relation; however, there are now mathematical theories that demonstrate that preferences and other significant economic results can be modeled without resorting to this assumption[citation needed].

 

On the other hand, "is the mother of" is not a transitive relation, because if Alice is the mother of Brenda, and Brenda is the mother of Claire, then Alice is not always the mother of Claire. What is more, it is antitransitive: Alice can never be the mother of Claire.

 

Then again, in biology we often need to consider motherhood over an arbitrary number of generations: the relation "is a matrilinear ancestor of". This is a transitive relation. More precisely, it is the transitive closure of the relation "is the mother of".

 

More examples of transitive relations:

 

"is a subset of" (set inclusion)

"divides" (divisibility)

"implies" (implication)

 

The converse of a transitive relation is always transitive: e.g. knowing that "is a subset of" is transitive and "is a superset of" is its converse, we can conclude that the latter is transitive as well.

 

The intersection of two transitive relations is always transitive: knowing that "was born before" and "has the same first name as" are transitive, we can conclude that "was born before and also has the same first name as" is also transitive.

 

The union of two transitive relations is not always transitive. For instance "was born before or has the same first name as" is not generally a transitive relation.

 

The complement of a transitive relation is not always transitive. For instance, while "equal to" is transitive, "not equal to" is only transitive on sets with at most two elements.

[Phonicz]

No its not lies

[HankTheTank]

A potato is a root, and in Canada's food guide, it is considered a starch (or something) not a vegetable.

[SneakySnake]

According to the transitive property of equality, if a = b and b = c, then a = c.

So just plug your options into the variables:

 

if Vegetable = Potato, and Potato = French Fry, then Vegetable = French Fry!

 

See, you can use math anywhere!

:3

 

Not necessarily, there are additives in French fries that can completely change their category.

It's like saying orange juice is water. Technically it is, with orange concentrate in it. So water+concentrated orange = orange juice, which is the same as sliced potato + boiling grease=French fry. Orange juice doesn't fall into the water category, so why does french fry go into vege? AND, vegetables are suppost to be grown, sliced, or baked, or steamed, not tortured in a bucket of grease. They are supposed to be healthy for you, not make you so obese, you become fat.