Let's see. Dr. Cornbread says, I'm 77 on Twitter often and can't imagine getting worked up over this.

Thank you, Dr. Cornbread.

Hi, I'm Madison Malone Kircher.

And I'm Rachel Hampton. You're listening to I see why am I.

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We're mostly here to break your brains as we have broken ours,

most recently by a TikTok that has taught me that vegetables don't exist.

Yeah, I know we have like a whole entire actual episode planned out for today,

but the only thing I want to talk about is this TikTok.

Who's going to tell Veggie Tales that their main characters of fruit?

I hate to break this to you, but nothing's a vegetable.

Vegetable is just a term that means you can eat it. In botany, nothing's a vegetable.

It's this woman saying who's going to tell veggie tales that their lead character is a fruit?

And then another woman comes in, that's the second voice you hear and says, hold up, vegetables aren't real.

And here is why.

And also on the screen is this man who is laughing at the original TikTok.

Like a cucumber, just a melon.

Melons are fruits.

You so often hear these, like, Twitter memes where it's like,

you're not going to put tomatoes in your fruit salad.

And, like, you intuitively know that carrots and potatoes are, like, root vegetables.

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