I love them both. I hadn’t tried V8 until, maybe five years ago, and it supplanted TJ for several years. Lately, though, I’ve come full circle and now prefer straight tomato juice.
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V8 if we are talking about drinking the stuff straight. Tomato juice all the way if we are talking about making a Bloody Mary.
I’ll go with low-sodium V8 with a splash of tabasco, thanks.
One of the ancillary tastes in V8 (celery? maybe parsley?) is too strong for me. I prefer tomato juice.
Sadly, because of GERD, they’re both pretty rare treats for me.
They are both double-nasty, thank you for including that option. The very smell of either makes me want to hurl, and let us not discuss the very concept of “clamato”. I mean, seriously, were they a bunch of fourth graders trying to come up with the nastiest thing they could imagine?
Ew ew ew ew ew ew. Hate 'em both.
I like V8…as long as we’re talking about the non-tomato based ones. I don’t mind sweet potato, or carrot, or onion (might only be the store brand knockoff, though) or even small amounts of tomato mixed in with other things, but I’m not drinking primarily tomato anything. eww.
2 parts room tempurature V-8 with 1 part Clamato.
Yum!
I used to like and drink both almost interchangeably but I really can’t now. I don’t know if the formulas were changed or if I became more sensitive to the sodium levels they contain but I just can’t drink it.
The low sodium varieties don’t work for me either. If I want to drink tomato juice then I need to buy one bottle of the regular and mix one part of that with one and a half to two parts of the low sodium. It’s not worth the trouble.
I’m not in the habit of drinking either, but I don’t dislike them. I’m just not in the habit. But I do like V8 better than tomato juice.
Tomato juice all the way. I have at least one glass of tomato juice every day. Tomato juice brands are not created equally. Sacramento is the best.
I prefer V-8 because of the underlying celery flavor.
V-8, even for Bloody Marys.
Remember, a Bloody Mary you can’t see through isn’t really a Bloody Mary.
You know I love you as the long lost twin brother (you’re the good twin) that I never had, but_dude_ V8 in a Bloody Mary? What’s next? Miracle Whip on Italian sausage?
Nah. Everybody knows you ketchup on Italian sausage!
Given the amount of seasoning and vodka I put in a Bloody Mary, I could use anything as a mixer and not taste the difference.
I have a slight preference for V8 over tomato juice, but what makes both of them palatable is several dashes of Worcester sauce, couple hits of tabasco, maybe a few drops of the liquid from a jar of minced garlic. Clamato is suitable for drinking straight up, also benefits from Worcester though.
I generally prefer V-8, but to me there are a few dishes (mostly sandwiches) that specifically call for tomato juice on the side.
Quite right. I hope we can agree that there is only one, true ketchup and its name is Heinz.
This is what I came to say. I love tomato juice but love V-8 even more, for this reason Crotalus says.
Spicy V-8!