I like almost anything made from tomatoes. I like most things cooked with tomatoes in them. But biting into raw tomato flesh. Ugh. Disgusting. And when added to a sandwich or burger, all it is is a flavorless, slimy layer that destroys the physical integrity of the burger/sandwich while adding nothing of benefit.
I’m probably a bit schizophrenic about my tomato feelings. I can’t stand slices of raw tomato on hamburgers, sandwiches, etc… Don’t like pieces in salads much either.
Have no problem with uncooked salsa/pico de gallo and no problems with cooked tomatoes; I actually like cooked ones just fine- things like various tomato-based pasta sauces, ketchup or pretty much anywhere they’re cooked is just fine with me.
I think it’s because the tomatoes can be a bit overwhelming by themselves. For example, a hamburger with a slice of tomato tastes like… raw tomato. I hardly taste anything else. At least in salsa or pico de gallo, the other stuff balances it out.
I agree with the sentiment of not putting fresh tomato on a hamburger. Or lettuce. They add nothing.
However, sliced or torn leftover roast chicken, on fresh rye bread, with mayonnaise, SCREAMS OUT for the addition of crisp Boston or Romaine lettuce and fresh slices of tomato.
OK, I imagine Jersey tomatoes are good, but they couldn’t be as good as an Indiana tomato. 
Anyway, people taste things differently due to genetics. Take the cilantro debate as an example. I am sure tomatoes are as revolting to some people as cilantro is to me. However, for those who dislike fresh 'maters but are fine with the canned and bottled products, I hypothesize they have never had a good fresh tomato and have only tried crummy ones. In some parts of the country, good fresh tomatoes only come from hundreds of miles away.
Impossible. Copyright law protects original and creative works of expression fixed in a perceivable medium, such as novels, musical compositions, audiovisual works, art, and sculpture.
A breed of tomato is not a work of expression.
Furthermore, a work of expression is protected by copyright law as soon as it is fixed, such as being written down. No separate act of “copyrighting” is required.
However, an invention that is useful, novel, and not obvious can be protected by patent law for 20 years.
The name “Kumato” could also conceivably be protected by trademark law so long as it is a distinctive indicator of the source of goods or services.
I like tomatoes, but only in moderation. That’s because too much of them irritates my mouth. V8, tomato sauce, Snap-E-Tom, no problem.
Garden-fresh tomatoes are the best.
I remember BLTs from my childhood. The tomato juice mixing with the mayonnaise was really good. But bacon gives me headaches now, so instead I have tomatoes and mayonnaise with a roast beef sub. Warm that up just a bit in the microwave and mmmm.
Figure of speech. All I know is the fruit cannot be borne unless permission is given. See my link, above. Kumato rules during the months October through June. That is all.
Also, I like mixing beer into a four ounce pour of Clamato juice, especially during the hot summer months. I may be turning Canadian.
I quite like them. The only time I have a problem is if someone tries to use them as an actual fruit. That is, add sugar and make it into a jelly or jam or something. That turns my stomach. That savory flavor they have just doesn’t mix well.
OTOH, I like growing small tomatoes and eating them right off the vine as a tasty fruit. I dunno, otherwise using them like a sweet fruit just grosses me out. Putting them into a fruit bowl with other fruit would be disgusting. An old friend who is great at making all kinds of jellies and jams sent me a tomato jam one time and I literally felt nauseated after tasting it and had to throw it out.
I’ve never been a huge fan of ketchup either. I can eat it with some fries if there’s nothing else, but really dislike it on the burger. Too sweet or something.
I used to like a Bloody Mary once in a great while, but don’t particularly like tomato juice, and the last time I tried Clamato it also made me feel a bit nauseated.
No, it’s not a figure of speech. It’s just wrong. And given the purpose of this institution we participate in, this response to real information is contrary to the spirit of the SDMB.
You mean the link that uses the word “patent”— not “copyright”—in the very first sentence? I did read it. Did you?
I really think it’s a texture or perhaps even visual thing, not a flavor one. Not liking fresh tomatoes but liking sauces is pretty common in my experience, even among those who grew up in households growing tomatoes in the garden. When I was a kid, the neighbor’s cherry tomatoes kind of squicked me out because of how they would pop in your mouth and release their snotty innards.
Now I’ll probably have to try the “Kumato”. There are a lot of “black” tomato varieties out there, some of which I’ve grown in the garden and not been impressed by the flavor (many were introduced from Russia).* There are tomato aficionados who think they’re the greatest. Some people report they come true from seed, so you could save seed from a store-bought Kumato and grow it.
Personal observations: 1) there are a lot more options for decent-tasting supermarket tomatoes than there used to be, and 2) it’s a crapshoot growing your own. Some seasons you get pretty good ones, but in following years the same variety is not so hot. I suspect that soil and temperature/humidity/rainfall variations play a big role in tomato flavor.
*My two experimental tomato varieties for the coming season are “Black Truffle” and “Purple Calabash”.
You and me, my friend. Have no problem with tomato-based dishes, processed tomatos, cooked tomatos, etc.
But raw? F*ckin’ nasty.
This is good stuff! While I understand the Canadian reference (Bloody Caesar), it’s also a Mexican thing, at least around here. Hell, even Budweiser has beer and Clamato. (Which I assume you’ve seen? Or maybe it’s just very regional. Here in Chicago it’s been here for at least a decade.)
Welp. I shall weigh in. I dislike raw tomatoes in general (cooked in any way are fine!) and especially the pinkish grainy things - that sad slice on an iceberg lettuce salad, or plucked off a burger! However. Just as I despise Huey Lewis and the News, there is one song by them I adore. so it is with tomatoes. Cherry or grape tomatoes are one of the BEST things ever invented to make a blah sandwich go down easier.
one thing is the flavor of a tomato changes drastically depending on what you do with it. I’ll eat fresh ripe tomatoes all day long, I don’t even care what variety. I put a couple of Roma plants outside my front door last spring so I could grab a couple every morning to eat on the way to work. I also like most tomato sauces and salsas.
what I don’t care for are cooked tomatoes. for example at a buffet luncheon I was at last week, one of the dishes was green beans with whole cherry tomatoes. The cooking process drastically increased the tartness of the tomatoes to where they stood out pretty harshly. it wasn’t revolting or anything, just not to my liking.
echh. pale, pink tomatoes on iceberg lettuce is a failure pile in a sadness bowl. (thank you Patton Oswalt.)
For those of you who say you don’t like fresh tomatoes, but like cooked tomatoes in various sauces and pastes, is your preferred sauce or paste homemade from scratch or do you buy stuff in a jar?
Patent and copyright are equivalent terms; they both cover protection of a creator’s rights. Stop splitting hairs. Or do you not understand what “figure of speech” means?
My family always makes fresh meat &tomato based sauces. Canned, pureed tomatoes are used. Or sometimes tomato sauce or paste if the recipe calls for it.
No, they are not equivalent. They are two separate kinds of intellectual property. They protect different things under different standards to different extents and for different times.
It’s like you said that the colors of a traffic light are purple, white, and pink and I corrected you and you replied “they’re equivalent; they’re all colors; stop splitting hairs.”
What you are calling “splitting hairs” is fighting ignorance.
You’re the one who apparently doesn’t understand what that means. It doesn’t mean using an inaccurate term. There’s nothing figurative about your use of “copyright.”