In sauce, salsa or on pizza…fine.
A tomato itself? Nasty. Just a sack of seedy guts. And cherry tomatoes? The few times I’ve tried them it is like biting an eyeball.
I like them, myself, but I’ve known plenty of people who don’t. I don’t think I liked them when I was a child, though I don’t remember for sure. At any rate, not liking tomatoes seems to be fairly common in children; and some of them grow out of it and some don’t.
Another “not a whole raw tomato; do something with it then we’ll talk” vote. Whole tomatoes, or slices by themselves, yuck. Sometimes I’ll leave a slice on a burger, sometimes not. I’ll eat salsa and pasta/pizza sauce and even pico de gallo and all kinds of other tomato products.
I had a job picking tomatoes on a farm when I was a kid. Literally saw enough whole tomatoes to start hallucinating them everywhere and seeing them when I slept. And you know what was the worst? Reaching for a perfect, beautiful tomato and grabbing it only to find the unseen back or bottom side was completely black and rotted out, squishing under my fingers as I tried to pick it from the vine… I grabbed enough of those that eventually they all pretty much lost their appeal.
Yet another for “not raw”. Maybe I can stomach a raw cherry tomato, but nothing bigger than that.
If they have been thoroughly pickled (i.e. in a salsa) that’s passable too.
I really hate the skin and the goop. Blech.
I don’t hate them, but they are not amongst my favorite. I don’t like chunky tomato bits in my food, ever. Tomato sauce is ok. I’m only mildly fond of marinara sauce, in small doses, I will never eat any eggplant or chicken parmesan, for example. What a waste of perfectly good eggplant.
An occasional slice of raw tomato is ok. And tomato caprese salad is pretty good. But I don’t want a lot of tomatoes, plus they make your sandwich slippery.
Agree with this.
To my family, I’m a heretic. Raw Jersey tomatoes are supposed to be ambrosial, but I don’t like tomatoes unless they’re cooked, or in a salsa.
I don’t have any problems with ketchup or tomato sauce or salsa, though I do prefer smoother sauces and always puree sauces when I make them myself. A slice or maybe two on a sandwich or burger is fine. A few cut up wedges in a salad, sure. By itself or in greater amounts than these? No thank you. The texture is unappealing and it’s just so wet.
I can appreciate the flavor and depth they bring to food, but I find a little goes a long way for me.
I’m OK with them, but my co-worker is selective about them. RAw tomatoes are a texture thing for her, esp the gooey seedy part. When I do chop up tomatoes for salad, I would remove the gooey seedy bits, but I don’t mind the rest raw.
For me, the guts of a tomato exemplify the Lovecraftian “liquescent horror”.
I don’t hate tomatoes, but I certainly could live without them. I hate ketchup. If tomatoes are in a a salad, I’ll eat a few bites, and leave a few. I would never put a slice of tomato on a sandwich, but if it comes with one, I’ll either eat it or take it off. I’d classify my approach as “minor avoidance.”
I’m always amused when people say they hate tomatoes but for “some reason” like ketchup as if that’s unusual in any way.
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT: Ketchup is nothing like a tomato. It’s poopy paste with sugar. Doesn’t look, taste, smell or feel like a tomato.
It’s like saying “I don’t like drinking wine, but I’m okay with grapes in my fruit salad.”
You not alone.
The wife and I like marinara, spag sauce, salsa, but neither of us like raw tomatoes.
I’ll take them sliced on a sandwich, just cuz it’s good for me - no other reason.
My kids like tomatoes, and will eat grape tomatoes in salad or sometimes just popping them in their mouths. We grow tomatoes to make fresh tomato sauce for pasta, but that’s it - the rest get given away.
I’ll only eat processed tomatoes, like sauces or salsa. Raw tomatoes are the definition of nasty.
My Beloved hates them if they are uncooked-pasta sauce is o.k., but chopped on nachos is forbidden.
Yes. All raw tomatoes are equally horrid.
When I was young, I really didn’t like raw tomatoes. Gooey, slimey like snot, with those little gloppy seeds like boogers in it. The veriest attempt to nibble literally made me gag. And my father really liked them. He’d eat a slice of raw tomato, and loudly proclaim how delicious it was! And I was always, like, EEEWWWWWW! Grosssss! (Tomatoes cooked into other cooked dishes were okay.)
At some point in my life (as best I recall, it was when I was in my early 20’s, maybe) I rather suddenly developed an acquired taste for raw tomatoes. Go figure. But it still really helps if they are really ripe, like field-ripened, like you might find at roadside farm stands. Those half-green things one sees in supermarkets aren’t very good, and I won’t eat those.
Wheew, I was hoping I wasn’t the only one.
For me, yes. They’re all disgusting.
I used to hate tomatoes, but I somehow grew into liking them. I think it’s partially that I never had good tomatoes, all of them were watery messes. I still don’t like tomatoes on my burgers or sandwiches, especially if I’m going out somewhere.
How you prepare them also makes a huge difference. Cooked tomatoes (e.g. halved cherry tomatoes in omelettes) taste far, far different from raw. They’re almost different foods entirely. I’m okay with raw tomatoes in my salads now, but I don’t really notice them. I’m never exactly craving tomatoes on my salad, but if they’re there it’s fine.
Sun-dried also taste a lot different, they’re okay on pizza.
Try as I might, I cannot choke down raw tomato. Not even home grown, fresh off the vine. I grow them because my son loves them. I also grow sauce varities, because I like them cooked.
I’m so jealous when I see someone enjoying a beautiful, fresh, ripe tomato.
Tomatoes are fine in sauces and pizza. But I don’t like to see big chunks of tomato in my lasagna or spaghetti. I usually will pick out any big chunks with a fork.
I don’t want raw tomatoes on my sandwich or on tacos. It’s a strange phobia leftover from childhood. Something about the texture and feel of them in my mouth.
No way would I even consider sliced raw tomatoes a treat. I have grown them and enjoy giving them to friends.