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So the answer is, a pea is a dry fruit
http://scidiv.bcc.ctc.edu/rkr/Biolog...FruitTypes.pdf

I have been told that vegetarians wont eat chick peas as they may contain animal products, and that sweet peas are delicious served with cream.

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How about this too?

'Strawberry, common name for low, perennial herbs of a genus of the rose family, and also for their edible fruit. Strawberries are native to temperate regions throughout the world and have become an important and widely distributed crop on farms and in home gardens. The white flowers, which are borne in cymes, have a five-cleft calyx, five rounded petals, many stamens, and numerous pistils. The fruit is not actually a berry but an aggregate of numerous achenes distributed on an enlarged, pulpy, scarlet receptacle
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That's from Encarta which seems to bear out the theory that what we regard as the seeds of the strawberry are in fact lots of little fruits and what we think of as the fruit is a pulpy scarlet receptacle. Doesn't sound very appetising that does it?

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ooh how do chick peas contain animal products? In a way I suppose all plants could contain animal by-products depending on what they are fertilised with. (I'm learning a lot on here.)

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i consider it a vegetable because it comes from a plant

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Saitou:

by that reasoning so are apples, oranges, pears, etc.