# Do you find tomatoes gross and disgusting? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 21, 2017, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737 "2017-01-21T17:42:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/1 "2017-01-21T17:42:41Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/2 "2017-01-21T17:45:54Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > People considered tomatoes poisonous for a long time. I’m not entirely sure they weren’t right. 😃 well, they _are_ part of the nightshade family. but no, I love 'em. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/3 "2017-01-21T17:52:39Z")
Love 'em gooshy in sauces and Italian dishes, but on a burger, it has to be the butt-end of a Beefsteak–hold the ketchup. ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/4 "2017-01-21T17:57:55Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/5 "2017-01-21T18:01:52Z")
Tomatoes are great. I really don’t understand picky eaters. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/6 "2017-01-21T18:34:49Z")
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. She never tried again. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/7 "2017-01-21T18:39:51Z")
> [@Max\_the\_Immortal](#): > > Tomatoes are great. I really don’t understand picky eaters. 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. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/8 "2017-01-21T18:40:10Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > 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. > > She never tried again. 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. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/9 "2017-01-21T18:47:36Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/10 "2017-01-21T18:50:03Z")
They’re great. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/11 "2017-01-21T18:52:20Z")
A fresh summer tomato is my single favorite food item. Better than ice cream. better than cheese. Better than chocolate. I look forward to tomato season every summer. I eat them like apples. mmm ---
**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/12 "2017-01-21T19:11:58Z")
I’m the opposite. I love fresh tomato, especially with cheese. I don’t really like tomato sauce. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/13 "2017-01-21T19:27:01Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/14 "2017-01-21T19:47:12Z")
I don’t especially like tomatoes or lettuce on burgers. I generally remove veggie additives from burgers and eat them separately. Fresh tomatoes are fine\* (really good-tasting ones are not easy to find\*\*), tomato sauce is essential, tomato juice is blech. Tomatoes may well have significant [health benefits](http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/lycopene-rich-tomatoes-linked-to-lower-stroke-risk-201210105400). \*a juice slice of beefsteak tomato seasoned with cilantro and a sprinkling of salt, yum. 🙂 \*\*cherry and grape types are often the best. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/15 "2017-01-21T19:49:25Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/16 "2017-01-21T19:50:52Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![4kad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/7cd45c/32.png) [@4kad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/4kad)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/17 "2017-01-21T19:59:14Z")
even though they flare up my arthritis I like tomatoes on my grilled chicken wrap ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/18 "2017-01-21T20:04:26Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/19 "2017-01-21T20:09:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/20 "2017-01-21T20:16:23Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737.md?page=2)