People considered tomatoes poisonous for a long time. I’m not entirely sure they weren’t right.
I’m not sure why I don’t like them. I know the texture bugs me. I always tell them no tomatoes on my burger. But once in awhile I’ll notice a tomato taste. Ketchup? That’s fine. Then I get a stringy bite of tomato. Ugh! It’s got to come off that burger.
I tolerate tomato paste or puree. I’ll eat lasange or spaghetti if there’s no visible chunks of tomato. Otherwise I have to pick them out with my fork. It used to bug my mom. She finally wised up and started using puree in her sauces. Hallelujah!
I love pizza. But don’t take me to some speciality place where there’s two inches of tomato sauce on the pizza. That’s just nasty.
I will go to Olive Garden. Only to appease my family. I don’t look forward to all those tomato based dishes. I usually get a mild GI upset afterwards.
No way ! I love tomatoes , and a lot Italian meals have tomatoes . Yummy !
I do find it hard to buy good tomatoes in the grocery stores, they taste nothing like home grown ones.
While I love tomato sauce and other preparations, tomatoes themselves have always revolted me. I’m not fond of the taste of the raw flesh, and the insides are a gelatinous mass, a liquescent horror worthy of Lovecraft.
My mother tried to get me to eat them while I was growing up. The last time she made me eat a cherry tomato at the dinner table. I did so, and immediately threw up all over my plate.
I’m kind of neutral on tomatoes. I don’t seek them out, but also don’t find them “gross and disgusting.” I’ll eat them however they are presented to me without a second thought. And I certainly enjoy all sorts of dishes made with a tomato sauce. (Lasagna, pizza, etc)
However, I do understand picky eaters. Some people have more foods they don’t like than other people. Is there anything you avoid because you don’t like it? Well, for a picky eater, there are simply more of those things.
ETA: I am not neutral on ketchup. I will not eat it. Period.
Hunh, I like the texture of raw tomatoes. The only thing I have against them is the lack of flavor in the supermarket variety; I usually go for Romas or cherry tomatoes than the round kind.
I love tomatoes in all their forms. Raw, in sauces, whatever. I love a slice or two on a burger, but only if it’s fresh and firm. No juicy mess all over the burger and on my hands.
That said, there’s a hell of a lot of really bad tomatoes being sold and served out there. Those terrible supermarket tomatoes don’t even cook down good, let alone eaten raw.
I’d say I eat them as if they were apples, only I do that more often than I actually eat apples; I enjoy tomato soup, I enjoy tomato juice, I enjoy sun-dried tomatoes on top of the cheese on top of the tomato sauce on a pizza; heck, as of right now I could sure go for a stand-up tomato – a juicy, sexy, beefsteak tomato – the best tomato, in an endive salad that’d knock the critics on their ass.
Tomatoes and onions are the two vegetables* I could not live without. Love them in all their forms.
*“Culinary vegetable” if you’re a pedantic jackass.
I agree with the OP, I eat things made with a tomato base, but I don’t like tomatoes themselves. If I absolutely have to, I can tolerate some diced very small in a salad, but I’d much rather not. I never eat them on sandwiches.
I’ve never understood the hate for tomatoes. dislike for commercially grown tomatoes sure, I can understand. easy on the sauce please and ketchup I consider to be revolting . Avocados and green olives are things worthy of hate, not tomatoes
I find that raw tomatoes have an off-putting taste I don’t enjoy. And yes, I’ve tried the heirloom varieties fresh from someone’s garden. It still is off-putting.
But marinate it, sun-dry it, cook it, and it’s delicious. I love tomatoes that way.
I like them on my tacos, and in a salad now and then. I grow them by the butt-load for my World Famous Spaghetti sauce. I cook up a vat and freeze it for cold winter nights.
