tomatoes are awesome tho
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I hate raw tomatoes. Stewed, sun dried, baked, in a Pico, salsa, whatever, but can't eat then by themselves for some reason
Have you tried adding salt? Not joking, a little salt on each bite is amazing on a fresh tomato
- something you can say about basically anything
I still remember my first fresh tomato wedge with salt and fresh cracked pepper from a farmers market when I was a kid. It might be nostalgia but I haven't had a tomato that good since .
I'm the same way but I know exactly why. The goo like substance that the seeds come in makes me literally gag.
I'm generally the opposite. Pico is fresh enough, as is salsa, and some tomato sauces are fine, but I prefer fresh and firm.
Same here. And every time I say it someone pipes up with "well you just haven't had a good one." Well, I have had one that tomato-eaters say is really good. I've had it with salt, I've had it with pepper, I've even had it with sugar. It still tastes and feels like a tomato, and I don't like that.
I can understand. For me it's cucumber that I hate.
I have no problem with picked cucumber but fresh cucumber taste horrible for me.
I'm sure it's a delicious vegetable but it's not for me.
I can eat them very thin sliced but not raw otherwise for some reason.
I eat grape tomatoes like candy
grape tomatoes should straight up not be classed together with big tomatoes, they taste so different and are used differently.
It's like calling plums and cherries the same thing just because they're the same species, they taste wildly differently and you will get stares if you shove a whole plum in your mouth and spit the core out..
They taste very different I'm sure, if you like tomatoes, but if you don't, they taste awful fucking similar.
Try them sometimes with a bit of olive oil and salt!
Substitute MSG instead of salt if you really want to bring out the flavor! Add a slice of mozzarella to the mix, and a fresh basil leaf if you have it (not dried) and you've got yourself a tasty, healthy snack! (but please use real mozzarella, not that "low moisture partially skim" bullshit).
Pizza without the dough?
add some salt (and maybe oil)
They are, anyone who says otherwise is probably suffering through bad tomatoes. If the tomatoes aren't from somewhere local to you, they've probably been refrigerated and that destroys the flavour.
Also people don't always know the dark art of adding salt and pepper, then waiting a couple of minutes before using the tomatoes. It can even save supermarket tomatoes a little bit
The fucks wrong with y'all ranking ketchup above tomatoes. This is why this country has to drive everywhere because you need added sugar for your fucking vegetables.
Fresh tomatoes are fucking awesome. Tomatoes don't keep for very long just sitting on your counter and they start tasting "icky" quite a bit of time before they go full-on bad and growing mold. Putting them in the refrigerator has almost no effect on how long they stay good. I haven't tried freezing them. I plan to try slicing them and freezing them because I like tomatoes but don't eat them quickly enough.
Everyone jokes about bananas going bad but at least they make it real obvious when they're about to turn.
Fresh tomatoes never last long enough around my house to worry about it.
Tomatoes can be mushy and gross. Junk food is typically consistent.
Ketchup is an overly sweet vinegary mess that does not belong on anything consumable. Real peop know that mustard is where it's at. Don't even get me started on fucking mayonnaise.
Yellow mustard is an abomination.
Nah man, ketchup is good for really shitty bland food. Mustard is indeed better, but typically has different applications than ketchup. I'm not putting mustard on my fries. The ideal fry doesn't need a condiment, but that's not always what's available unfortunately.
A1 is the ideal condiment for anything that would typically require ketchup. BBQ in general is going to be superior.
Some people have never had proper fresh vine ripe tomatoes. Those flavorless seed blobs you get from the grocery store are only good for slicing onto bad burgers and putting in iceberg lettuce salads you bring to a potluck with people you hate.
Based.
Normal beefsteak tomatoes are watery and nearly flavorless. All the other forms of tomato here have concentrated the tomato flavors into something that doesn't just taste like tomato paste mixed into water. I generally only eat grape and cherry tomatoes raw because that actually taste good. Most other tomatoes are a chore to eat at best until cooked down in a sauce.
Roma aren't bad either, texturewise anyway. I generally us em for fresh salsa though. Grape and cherry for eating I agree are the best.
Yea, I use Roma for salsa and pasta sauce. I honestly have next to no use for most of the big tomato varieties. No one in my family will eat them. I've used them along with several other types of tomatoes for a sauce before and it turned out really good, but they were all homegrown in my mother in law's garden and I had Roma and even cherry tomatoes in there too. So not sure how fair a test that is.
Grow your own tomatoes and they taste pretty good
My mother in law grows them along with other varieties. They are better, but I still prefer the smaller varieties for flavor.
I feel personally attacked.
Thank you, brave slayer of tomatoes
Tomato flavored sugar!
If you don't like tomatoes, you haven't had a good tomato.
Tomatoes I've grown in the garden have almost always been superior in taste to whatever I could buy in the store
I grew up in the inner city, but my dad made space to grow tomatoes. I ask for no tomatoes at most restaurants, people assume I don't like them. They are wrong, I fucking love them.
I cannot stand this sentiment so much. Anything you don't like, someone will tell you you haven't had "a good one", or "well you haven't had it the way I make it." Nobody loves everything.
Tomatoes are the only thing I will ever use the argument for. Tomatoes that you get from the vast vast majority of restaurants are absolute dogshit. There is a huge difference from mass produced tomatoes vs a well grown one.
So it's not as simple as me just not seeing other people's perspective, and of course I acknowledge I used hyperbolic phrasing here, but tomatoes are absolutely the one thing that it's very likely that people do not like since most tomatoes that you will eat are significantly lower quality.
STFU
My kids in a nutshell
Marinara is gross too though.
You're gross
No doubt.