February 29th 2008 Miley Cyrus Drinks ketchup on Jay Leno
Miley Cyrus, born Destiny Hope Cyrus on 23 November 1992, became an overnight sensation after she was cast in Hannah Montana. As of December 2007, she is working on a movie spin-off from Hannah Montana, titled The Hannah Montana Movie which is due to be released late 2008 or early 2009. Her concert is now a “must-see” movie event of the year, produced by Disney.
In this clip, Cyrus demonstrates her strange penchant for drinking ketchup from a bottle. Jay tries a taste himself, which he declares, “exotic.” Right. Cyrus declares that drinking ketchup is healthy, as it’s a fruit. According to AskOxford, a tomato is definitely a fruit - scientifically speaking. True fruits are developed from the ovary in the base of the flower, and contain the seeds of the plant (though cultivated forms may be seedless). With that said, “The tomato, though technically a fruit, is often used as a vegetable, and a bean pod is also technically a fruit. The term ‘vegetable’ is more generally used of other edible parts of plants, such as cabbage leaves, celery stalks, and potato tubers, which are not strictly the fruit of the plant from which they come. Occasionally the term ‘fruit’ may be used to refer to a part of a plant which is not a fruit, but which is used in sweet cooking: rhubarb, for example. So a tomato is the fruit of the tomato plant, but can be used as a vegetable in cooking.”
But, this goes against an 1887 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, where the tomato was deemed a vegetable.
Cyrus never mentions the amazing amount of sugar found in ketchup, which isn’t all that healthy. According to Yahoo! Health, two tablespoons of ketchup are equal to two teaspoons of sugar. Considering that one tablespoon equals three teaspoons, then ketchup is 1/3 sugar!
