Character of vegetables

TV program Australian Gardening visited Felix's school garden. They asked kids: if you were a vegetable, which one would you be? The answers were quite significant to me - a dark skinned girl with thoroughly covered head said - a beetroot, because beetroot bleeds when you cut it. A boy of Vietnamese origin said - an onion, because it makes you cry when you cut it, it has selfprotection features. And our Felix smiled and said - a potato, because it never dies (???) The logic sounds a bit strange to me, but I am so glad, that he does not feel endangered with cuts and hopes for everlasting life...