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[rokubro]

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Sender ID: rokubro (Rokurou)
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Subject: Tomatos R Veggtabels
Warnings: Chaos and ragebaiting

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Tomatos R Veggtabels CHANGE MY MIND

Yep, that's it. HE'S ON TEAM VEGETABLES NO MATTER WHAT try and prove him and everyone else wrong—

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[sparkstrikes]

You don't actually believe that they're a vegetable, right?

[Please tell her this is just ragebait.]

[rokubro]

Why wouldn't I? It's one hundred percent a vegetable.

[Telling her nothing.]

[sparkstrikes]

Because it's not.

[That's just facts.]

They have seeds and grow from a flower. [Is she going to blow his mind with this?] Just like cucumbers and peppers.

[rokubro]

So?

[Unfortunately, Eizen already grilled him on those but he still doesn't believe.]

I've heard of seedless grapes and melons—are they now vegetables?

[sparkstrikes]

[Don't take the bait, Lightning... Don't take the bait...]

You know those aren't actually grown the right way, right?

[rokubro]

[Hook line and sinker—]

That's not a no.

[sparkstrikes]

I didn't think I needed to say no for you to get it, but... no.

[She huffs.]

Technically, they're just clones or something, aren't they?

[rokubro]

So does that mean they're not really a fruit?

[Oh he is definitely being difficult now.]

[sparkstrikes]

[Very difficult. WHY DID SHE DECIDE TO HUMOUR HIM... but she is too stubborn to back down now.]

You're not gonna start calling melons and grapes vegetables too...

[rokubro]

Nah, I still think they're fruits. But if we were going by your definition, yeah.

But all that science aside, do you really see tomatoes and cucumbers as fruits?

[sparkstrikes]

What do you mean "see them as fruits"?

[She pinches her nose between her fingers.]

They are. [And then she tosses her head back in her frustration.] Why am I even arguing with you about this!?

[rokubro]

You tell me, I think it's clear that tomatoes are still vegetables.

[sparkstrikes]

Alright then.

[She'll try a different tack, and will probably regret this later.]

Convince me that they're a vegetable.

[rokubro]

They taste like one.

[That's it that's his argument—



Yeah he's deliberately being difficult.]

And you use them more as a vegetable than a fruit. Don't really mix them with apples and peaches for a drink, right?

[sparkstrikes]

Who says you can't? People put "vegetables" in drinks all the time. Carrots, spinach, kale. Believe it or not, there's a drink made with tomato juice, so that logic's flawed.

[SHE IS NOT GIVING UP.]

[rokubro]

So, would you call ketchup a smoothie?

[sparkstrikes]

[MORE WTF LOGIC, where is he coming up with all of this!?]

Do you drink ketchup?

[rokubro]

[DON'T UNDERESTIMATE HIS ABILITY TO BULLSHIT HE WAS THE YOUNGEST BROTHER OF SIX AND MESSED WITH EIZEN.]

Never thought to, but I could.

[sparkstrikes]

[Excuse you???]

No, you can't. No one can drink a whole thing of ketchup in one go. Nobody should.

[Though, now she wonders if saying that has only made him want to do it more. Ah, the regret is already there in her expression...]

[rokubro]

[If she sees the way his eye gleams then yes.

Yes it does.]

Hey, I'm a daemon, I can stomach a lot more than the average human.

[They lost the plot.]

[sparkstrikes]

That is not how you win this argument, Rokurou.

[Don't you dare do it. Please don't, please don't...]

It won't change the fact that it's a fruit.

[rokubro]

Sure it does. You can "say" [Actually air quotes with one hand since he's holding the phone with the other.] it's a fruit for all those science reasons, but we all know that at its heart, it's a true vegetable.

And that's what matters.

[??? Or some such logic.]

[sparkstrikes]

You'd be the only person that would drink an entire bottle of ketchup just to prove an opinion that's wrong.

[rokubro]

Naaaah, I'm sure there are other people.

[He bets Eizen would do something similar to prove it's a fruit if he goaded him long enough—]

Just need to find a bottle.

[sparkstrikes]

You're not actually going to do this, are you?

[Staring daggers at him through the phone.]