The confusion about 'fruit' and 'vegetable' arises because of the differences in usage between scientists and cooks. A scientist would say a tomato is a fruit, but a cook would claim that the tomato is a vegetable.
Fruits are developed from the ovary in the base of the flower, and contain the seeds of the plant. Vegetable are other edible parts of plants.
So a tomato is the fruit of the tomato plant, but can be used as a vegetable in cooking.
Similarly, fruits and eggs are not very different in the sense that they both contain seeds of life.
Someone who eats chicken egg but not poultry might even assume an egg is a fruit, especially if they think mushrooms are vegetables! Then again, everyone knows that eggs are not meat since they are not poultry.
If you were entangled in a chicken-and-egg dilemma, what would you do? Count the chickens, or end up with the eggs for the rest of your life?
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