Roy Tang

Not really. They're tubers. And they're more carbohydrate than anything so technically they have more in common with grains like rice and wheat.

we should ask Jaime , he's an expert on everything that everything else is not (vegetables)

Hindi ko ma-parse ung sinabi ni Jonathan :) )

that's why we need Jaime ! lol

No, potatoes are not vegetables (being primarily a starch with little fibre and nutrients). But apparently, many South Asians think them to be vegetables.

In the culinary realm, a vegetable was something a traditional western trained chef would put into a salad (i.e not fruit salad or asian mango salad) That's why tomatoes are sometimes considered vegetables. Biology-wise, vegetables have no exact definition. I put them as root crops or certain vine-growing that crawl along the soil, with the likes of cabbages, carrots, and beetroots being the root crop, and pumpkin (pumpkins carry seeds so are technically fruit) being the vine variation. Since potatoes are a root crop and can be found in traditional salads, I consider them veggies too.

The reason why I said the definition of veggies are everything that everything else is not is because the definition is arbitrary. Ask vegetarians what they can or cannot eat, and you get different answers (though this is more a meat anti-definition , than plant-part distinction between fruit and veggie or goodness knows what else).