“Vegetables are just crunchy water”

Are vegetables mostly water? “Vegetables are just crunchy water” was printed in the book American Terroir: Savoring the Flavors of Our Woods, Waters, and Fields (2010) by Rowan Jacobsen. “Vegetables = Crunchy Water” was posted on Twitter on February 8, 2012. “Vegetables are just different colors of crunchy water” was posted on Twitter on October 8, 2017.
   
Similar food sayings are “Celery is just crunchy water.” “Cucumbers are just crunchy water,” “Lettuce is just crunchy water,” “Watermelon is just crunchy juice” and “Watermelon is just crunchy water.”
     
   
Google Books
American Terroir:
Savoring the Flavors of Our Woods, Waters, and Fields
By Rowan Jacobsen
New York, NY: Bloomsbury
2010
Pg. 1:
“Vegetables are just crunchy water,” Paul likes to say.
     
Twitter
Stone Cold
@saxmachine666
I like eating vegetables, they’re like crunchy water
6:18 AM - 3 Aug 2011
   
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Jenna Lyne
@Jenments
Vegetables = Crunchy Water
2:57 PM - 8 Feb 2012
   
Twitter
✌🏽
@gnashpredusa
I dunno how some people are #vegetarians.  Vegetables, to me, are nothing but crunchy water and it’s near impossible to get full on them.
12:13 PM - 3 Apr 2012
   
Twitter
DA STEP DADDY OF RAP
@DamienSwag4dayz
the flavor of vegetables seem so unnecessary. tomatoes taste like water, cucumbers taste like water, lettuce taste like crunchy water
7:17 PM - 8 May 2012
   
Twitter
Aril Joi Offutt
@_Harild
Vegetables are just like crunchy water.
5:00 PM - 21 Jan 2013
   
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The Mediocre Gatsby
@WhoIsCamden
The problem with vegetables is they are all basically crunchy water.
12:11 AM - 24 Apr 2013
   
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EDM_JUNKY
@cosmic_chaser
Vegetables are crunchy water
12:41 AM - 18 Nov 2013
     
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Jacob Barnes
@aptosjb
Vegetables are just crunchy water. #BrandonLogic
2:33 PM - 6 May 2014
   
Twitter
Aram
@boatsnhosenfeld
most vegetables are just crunchy water
5:38 PM - 31 May 2015
   
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Josh Catubig
@joshca2big
Vegetables should be called crunchy water.
5:05 PM - 16 Jun 2016
   
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Erin Pille
@erin_pille
Vegetables are just different colors of crunchy water.
1:35 PM - 8 Oct 2017 from Omaha, NE
 
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Derek Nowicki
@DerekStDerek
Vegetables are basically just crunchy water, really
10:47 PM - 7 Jun 2018
 
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Baby grill 🦋
@sladkins_
How do people not like vegetables most of them taste like crunchy water
2:34 PM - 11 Jun 2018