list of filipino names for some common vegetables and fruits

[dreamlessness]

(crossposted to tagalog)

ptiza_schastya asked for some Filipino terms for food in an earlier post in the tagalog community. I thought it would be fun to start compiling a list of these things, but there are just so many... so I decided to at least make a list of Tagalog translations for common vegetables and fruits

Comments

[anonymous]

I have no idea what most of those look or taste like.

Oh, and technically speaking, a tomato is a fruit!

[black_marx]

that was me again!

[dreamlessness]

hi :D

it's a fruit? :O

...though i seem to remember someone telling me this in grade school XD;; will fix, thank you!

[black_marx]

It is claimed that for culinary purposes it is a vegetable because it is served as part of the pain meal but that would mean pineapple is a vegetable too due to the hawaiian pizza.

I seem to remember someone trying to convince me it was technically neither a fruit or vegetable but a berry!

[dreamlessness]

...okay, please tell me a berry is a fruit and not another category of food i was not properly taught in grade school.

[black_marx]

According to my understanding, a berry is a class of fruit.
I suppose you don't want me telling you that a potato is technically a tuber plant and not a vegetable, and the sweet potato is a root...

[dreamlessness]

subclasses?? can't we just deny them all and live forever?

[black_marx]

Aren't we both members of a subclass?

[dreamlessness]

precisely my point. why complicate things?

death to all subclasses!