Oh, for god’s sake.
Just accept the correction, strive to be correct in the future, and move on. That’s what fighting ignorance is about.
Fine, fine. “Patent” and “copyright” are not equivalent, and I was wrong to use one term for another, in case there are posters here who look up to me as a God and take every of my utterances as a Gift of Knowledge bestowed from the clouds. Some of them may be law students and, boy howdy, would they be embarrassed in their Patent Law class.
Is that better? Have a poem!
I give you now Professor Twist
A conscientious scientist;
Trustees exclaimed “He never bungles!”
And sent him off to distant jungles.
Camped on a tropic riverside
one day he missed his loving bride.
She had, the guide informed him later,
Been eaten by an alligator.
Professor Twist could not but smile.
“You mean,” he said, “a crocodile.”
Really? Not letting errors slide is worthy of sarcasm and mockery?
It’s a post-factual world, Acsenray. 
Doesn’t mean raw tomatos are any less gross, however.
I came back to say, I really enjoy salsa, too, but I cannot eat sliced tomatoes on a sandwich.
I’ll take ANY excuse to use sarcasm and mockery!
May we go back to talking about tomatoes now?
The only raw tomatoes I like are sun-ripened ones, and, even though I generally dislike mayonnaise, it is good on perfectly ripe fresh tomatoes. Loathe tomato juice, though I’ve tried to learn to like it. Alas, not even doctored with vodka and horseradish and hot sauce is tomato juice good.
On the other hand, a spicy tomato concoction, a nice diavolo, perhaps, or a hot salsa with a lot of jalapeño and fresh cilantro, or a hot curry sauce with tomato, can be quite good.
Nah, if you install a relatively cheap drip irrigation system and use slow-release fertilizer like Osmocote or Dynamite, you can pretty much guarantee a pretty good yield in most years before some kind of disease gets your patch. Around here, it’s early blight, and it seems to be windborne.
A good variety if you live somewhere hot is Porter’s Improved, BTW.
I enjoy mayonnaise, but fresh-from-the-garden tomatoes and mayo (and, in this case, I may go homemade if I’m in the mood, but commercial will do just fine) on some toasted bread in a tomato sandwich is proof that God exists and he loves us.
Yeah, moi aussi. I hated raw tomatoes as a kid, and didn’t much like marinara and the like due to an ill-timed stomach bug. Then I started to like raw tomatoes as long as the seeds/slime were rinsed out, and I eventually got over my marinara/ragu distaste. Now, I’ll eat tomatoes any which way unless they are mealy. I do love a summer sandwich of just ripe tomatoes, S/P, and Hellman’s mayo on fresh bakery bread. I mean, I’ll eat like 3 little sandwiches of that in a row. I also love ripe tomatoes chopped into cottage cheese with loads of cracked pepper and maybe a little balsamic. Throw in some good tonno and a couple Wasa crackers for a full lunch.
But, and it’s a big but, so many supermarket tomatoes are pretty noxious. I don’t blame anyone for having a distaste based on that. If it isn’t summer, I’d rather buy some cherry tomatoes for my fix. They seem to stand up a bit better.
(Whispers in your ear) kumato kumato kumato kumato kumato kumato kumato kumato kumato
The Kumatos I bought this morning were grown in Mexico. I’ll report in if they’re significantly better or worse than the more common Canadian ones.
Those are those little brownish tomatoes they sell in little sleeves of three or four? If so, yes, I get them when I can find them. 
I’ve grown my own tomatoes, both cherry and large, for the past four years, but alas…the growing season is so short here. This year was good, though. I had homegrown tomatoes for like 5 months. Unfortunately I didn’t pick the best varietals, but it was still nice.
Yield is never a problem here.
Yield and taste do not necessarily correlate well.
No. What’s worthy of sarcasm and mockery is substituting all this:
for this:
There’s being right, and then there’s freaking out about it until you get an explicit acknowledgement that you’re right. I well understand the temptation, but I wish it had been resisted.
Back on topic, wow, as a lover of tomatoes in pretty much every form I didn’t realize that their raw state was so unappealing to so many people. I will be a little more careful about freely adding raw tomatoes to salads for guests from now on.
Well, I don’t *think *I’m particularly unique in this, so I’ll contribute. Tomatoes don’t really “go” on a soft lettuce-based salad. Better on a chopped, marinated salad: chopped bell pepper, onion, cucumber, *maybe *a hardy green (lambsquarter, purslane, spinach or chard) and your tomato, plus some crumbled strong cheese with a vinaigrette. Sliced tomato on a lettuce salad is kind of slimy and insipid. Don’t go there.
I think BLT’s are the greatest sandwich invention of all time. Accompany that with a nice cucumber/tomato salad. I could eat that everyday and never get sick of it.
A friend of mine’s mother used to grow the best cherry tomatoes. We’d take chairs and a salt shaker out to her garden and eat them off the vine. Yum.
I would also have been satisfied with silent acceptance rather than continued self-justification.
Can’t stand tomato juice, and I’m generally not fond of raw tomatoes - e.g. don’t care for them in salads or BLT’s. It’s a texture thing, but will tolerate them diced up in tacos.
Otherwise, I generally like tomatoes when used for sauces or cooked.
Yep, that was it for me.
Used to absolutely loathe fresh tomatoes, chiefly because of their slimy seeds (same with passion fruit), but also because of their slightly acidic flavor.
Didn’t learn to truly appreciate fresh tomatoes until about age 18.
Now I absolutely love them.