Tomato- fruit or veggie??

It's a very complicated subject.
Is the tomato a fruit or a vegetable?
At first, I did adamantly believe that the tomato was, in fact, a vegetable. After all, you do grow them in vegetable gardens! You even cut them up and put them in your salad, which is entirely vegetables! So I thought that there was no way the tomato could even be considered a fruit.
Until now.
Times are changing, and so are my views on tomatoes. I know am certain that the tomato is most deffinately a fruit, and not only because the 'experts say so'.
But why, you may ask, is the tomato a vegetable?
Why ideed!
First of all, Tomatos are fruits because they grow above the ground, unlike carrots and potatoes.
But Becksta, corn grows above the ground, and corn is a vegetable!
True that, true that. But not only does the tomato grow above the ground, it also grows on vines, like grapes.
That means nothing, Becksta! Pumpkins also grow above ground and on vines, and they are deffinately vegetables!
You are very observant. But to prove my point once and for all, the real reason that a tomato is not a vegetable, but a fruit, is because IT IS NOT HOLLOW.
Huh?
That's right! When, say, you bite into an apple, is it hollow? NO! How about a banana? NO! But what happens when you open up a peapod, or a pumpkin, or a green pepper?
HOLLOW!!!
And are tomatoes hollow when you bite into them?
NO!
Therefore, tomatoes are not vegetables because they grow above the ground, they grow on vines, and they are not hollow.
And because the experts say so.