# 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:** 2
**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, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/21 "2017-01-21T20:19:26Z")
I like my tomatoes sliced and diced ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/22 "2017-01-21T20:21:16Z")
In soup, sauce, juice, paste…I love 'em. Sliced or in chunks, no thanks. That’s some nasty, slimy, but somehow still chunky, ick! ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/23 "2017-01-21T20:25:49Z")
**elbows** : My b.i.l. is exactly that way. He says that tomatoes are evil, “until purified with sacred herbs and fire.” Me, I love biting into a nice fresh red tomato! I adore cherry tomatoes too! I can just pop 'em like M&Ms. My b.i.l. hates V8 and Clamato, too, and I love both of those. How ya gonna argue with tastes? ---
**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, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/24 "2017-01-21T20:33:37Z")
> [@guestchaz](#): > > 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 Avocados? They’re like butter in vegetable (or fruit, whatever definition you want to use) form. What’s to hate? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/25 "2017-01-21T20:38:54Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > 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 Nice to see your sign-off for a post topic like this, and not for a topic, like, say, penicillin samples, or eating someone else’s catarhh.\* \*Not that you’ve made particular posts of the sort, _as far as I know_. > [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > 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. ok now both those last posts I feel like I’ve been stomped to the ground, dragged around the block, booted on some more, shanked, thrown around a bit, beaten up then beaten down, and then finally chucked in the dumpster with the door closing behind me, after reading those last two posts. In my short time here I mentioned in another tomato thread that I can’t just pick one up and take a bite, orelse the… > [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > …gelatinous mass, a liquescent horror worthy of Lovecraft. …along with that quite unforgivably (yes, I am personally holding it against the tomato) acrid citrus _ew-facedness_ makes me go…well…ew. > [@Jackmannii](#): > > \*a juice slice of beefsteak tomato seasoned with cilantro and a sprinkling of salt, yum. 🙂 > \*\*cherry and grape types are often the best. Well, not that I’m gonna “cross the floor” or anything over this, but…I suppose I can sit down at the table, to _discuss_ this. One of my brother-in-laws is planet earth’s ultimate cherry tomato freak, and used to have this insane garden with about 3,742 varieties of _just_ cherry tomatoes. Dinner spreads often had five or six bowls of red, orange, yellow mini cherries, and I have to say that some of the sweeter ones were ok to snarfle. ---
**Author:** ![HeXen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@HeXen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeXen)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/26 "2017-01-21T20:39:29Z")
Hate is not a strong enough word. Also some greens like spinach make me puke. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/27 "2017-01-21T20:51:58Z")
I had an unfounded dislike/fear of them when I was a kid. I think some adult told me to bite into one once, it squirted, and my shirt became stained. The adult laughed… and when my parents got me home later I caught a beating for ruining a perfectly good shirt. Later on in life I faced my fear, realized it was unfounded, and I now enjoy in the spring and summer fresh slices of tomato with a slice of mozzarella on top. 😃 perfect pairing: chilled white wine. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/28 "2017-01-21T20:53:51Z")
I’ve always loved tomatoes. In the last year or so, though, some of the store-bought grape tomatoes have begun to have a distinctly fishy smell and flavor to them. I can’t figure out if it’s real or if it’s because I so often eat them with lox. But it has put me right off store-bought tomatoes…which is probably as it should be. ---
**Author:** ![Emily\_Litella](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emily_litella/32/3370_2.png) [@Emily\_Litella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emily_Litella)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/29 "2017-01-21T23:12:23Z")
I love tomatoes, raw or cooked, sauce, ketchup, pizza, etc… I grow my own in my garden because I love them fresh picked. The only thing I won’t touch is sun dried tomatoes, something about the taste of them is just wrong. > [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > … and the insides are a gelatinous mass, a liquescent horror worthy of Lovecraft. I’d like to hear your opinion of okra. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/30 "2017-01-21T23:14:37Z")
I’m usually a very picky eater, but I have no problem with tomatoes whatsoever. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/31 "2017-01-21T23:21:45Z")
I’ll gladly eat sauce on pizza or a Mariana on pasta, but by themselves I can’t stand the little red wheels of ick on a salad or sandwich. Slimey ick! ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/32 "2017-01-21T23:29:20Z")
I like tomatoes raw, and I like them cooked down to sauce…but cooked, but not completely sauce-ated is…not good. ---
**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, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/33 "2017-01-21T23:32:17Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Avocados? They’re like butter in vegetable (or fruit, whatever definition you want to use) form. What’s to hate? the flesh is slimy and tastes bad. I realize my perception of this, this, _thing_ is not universal or even seemingly widespread. It is, to me, puzzling. Tomatoes on the other hand, the only bad tomato is those commercially grown type you find in the grocer’s produce section in the plastic stretch wrapped 4-packs. Even those will do, in times of desperation. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/34 "2017-01-21T23:47:03Z")
I’m sort of terrified of tomatoes, but that’s because I have a potentially life-threatening allergy to them. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/35 "2017-01-21T23:47:24Z")
I couldn’t abide the texture as a child, but I’ve come to like them as an adult. I’ve always enjoyed any tomato derivative product. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2017, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/36 "2017-01-21T23:55:02Z")
> [@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. I entirely agree. Cooked tomatoes are fine, but raw tomatoes are gross. I am alone in my family in thinking this. They all think a fresh Jersey tomato, eaten raw in the garden you plucked it in, with a little salt, is heaven. But I’ll eat any cooked tomato. Cooked tomato slices on a pizza are fine. So are cherry tomatoes on a kabob (with other vegetables and meat). And, of course, tomato sauce and paste and things made from them, including Pizza Sauce, Spaghetti sauce, and sloppy joes are perfectly fine. ---
**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 22, 2017, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/37 "2017-01-22T00:03:11Z")
> [@guestchaz](#): > > Tomatoes on the other hand, the only bad tomato is those commercially grown type you find in the grocer’s produce section in the plastic stretch wrapped 4-packs. Even those will do, in times of desperation. I hate to be a tomato snob (well, no, I don’t think I really do), but in times of desperation, I just skip them. I pretty much only cook with canned tomatoes, which actually taste like tomatoes and not a water ball of cellulose most of the time. I’ll use supermarket tomatoes when I need color and something wet and firm in what I’m serving. But they don’t taste like tomatoes. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/38 "2017-01-22T00:03:24Z")
The single best food in the world is a freshly-picked, sun-warmed heirloom tomato from your own garden, perfectly ripe and juicy. Eat it just like an apple. Yum! ---
**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 22, 2017, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/39 "2017-01-22T00:05:20Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > The single best food in the world is a freshly-picked, sun-warmed heirloom tomato from your own garden, perfectly ripe and juicy. Eat it just like an apple. > > Yum! The biggest thing I look forward to in August/September is tomato sandwiches from the tomatoes in the garden. Just salt, pepper, tomato, bread, and a smear of mayo if I’m in the mood. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2017, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737/40 "2017-01-22T00:06:30Z")
I adore tomatoes in every form, even some polarizing ones. That pale, mealy, perfunctory slice from a February fast food run? Can I have yours? Pickled and green ala Chicago institution Superdawg is good, too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-find-tomatoes-gross-and-disgusting/777737.md?page=3)