Talk:Corn/@comment-75.120.0.232-20140521140128/@comment-27.32.136.90-20180102235156

Corn is a fruit in a botanical sense, but a vegetable in a culinary sense, just like tomatoes and capsicum.

Side note: a court case in the USA, Nix vs Hedden, 1893, ruled that while tomatos were botanically fruit they were to be taxed as a vegetable, because that is how they are used in cooking.