In the case of Nix v. Gedden (1893), the Court had to decide the weighty issue of whether a tomato should be considered a fruit or vegetable. Due to the Tariff Act of 1883, imported tomatoes were subject to a large tariff unless they were classified as a fruit. While botanically tomatoes are classified as fruit, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that under the “ordinary meaning” of the word it was generally considered a vegetable (by way of example, the Court noted that tomatoes are customarily served as a side dish to a main course rather than as desert, as is the case with fruit). The case remains an important holding illustrating that in statutory interpretation courts will look to the ordinary meaning of words unless they have become invested with special legal or commercial meaning, which was not the case here.