tomatoes are awesome tho
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
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 .
- something you can say about basically anything
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.
It’s like how people tell me I’d like broccoli if it was covered in cheese. No, now you’ve just made a bunch of cheese taste like feces.
It’s okay, I’ll just take all the tomatos and broccoli you guys don’t want.
Now I know how the tomato eaters feel. For me, nothing beats a little lightly steamed broccoli with a little kosher salt.
But you don’t have to eat it, and I’ll never tell you “You’ve never had it done right” or “what about fresh picked broccoli” because I respect your opinion.
I’m glad you brought some balance to this thread. I fucking hate tomatoes, but I love broccoli so much.
Had a garden tomato yet? Like one that hasn’t been picked unripe, refrigerated, shipped across the country and left to ripen artificially on a shelf so it ends up tasting like water and disappointment?
Yes. I’ve had the fanciest tomatoes that people rave ever and I still hate them raw. It’s like tomato lovers just can’t fathom that they just taste gross to some people. Cooked tomatoes are great, raw are not for me.
Ok yeah then that’s valid, some people just don’t like raw tomatoes. I just wanted to make sure you didn’t just get a “fancy tomato” from the store and decided you didn’t like it.
See? I knew there’d be at least one.
I’ve literally grown my own tomatoes because people kept telling me this. And even fresh off the vine, still warm from the sun, it tastes and feels like a tomato.
Yeah, if you don’t like the tomato flavour of tomatoes, there’s not a whole lot different varieties are going to do for you, or having them be vine ripened or freshly picked for that matter. Increasing the sugar content doesn’t make them taste less like tomatoes, it just makes them taste like sweet tomatoes.
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’m generally the opposite. Pico is fresh enough, as is salsa, and some tomato sauces are fine, but I prefer fresh and firm.
I can eat them very thin sliced but not raw otherwise for some reason.
Try them sometimes with a bit of olive oil and salt!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Here’s a nice recipe for homemade tomato sauce: https://youtu.be/uURB-vo9rZ4?si=mt4r6lfsAVlK32m9
Tomato flavored sugar!
Two of those images are definitely tomato-flavored sugar. I’ll understand people not enjoying raw tomato, but at least make homemade sauces and soups from canned tomatoes as much as you can. Then you can enjoy your fries with tomato-flavored sugar free of guilt.
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Looking at the comments above. No wonder Americans are so fucking fat.
