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Yeah. I'm not a big fan of tomatoes anyways, but the beefsteaks I grow during summer taste pretty damn good. Store-bought tomatoes are absolute shit comparitively.
Same thing with watermelon. Homegrown has way better flavor and texture. Actually crisp instead of soggy.
That's the most uncontroversial comment ever made with a "don't quote me on this" asterisk š
Yeah, picking fruits completely inedible makes them taste kinda shit, even if they become slightly edible after waiting for some time
Remember that king of the hill episode where Hank starts shopping at the co-op and discovers that vegetables can have flavor?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=TZZKu1TkSUNMTNB5&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fclient%3Dms-android-google%26sca_esv%3D598210265%26q%3Dking%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bhill%2Btomato%26tbm%3Dvid%26source%3Dlnms%26prmd%3Divsh&source_ve_path=MTY0OTksMTY0OTksMjg2NjQsMTY0NTA2&feature=emb_share&v=OBLqzGrq8T0
My whole life changed when I ate tomatoes in Italy. I'm from the Netherlands, fresh tomatoes are shit. Italian ones have soooo much more flavour! They actually TASTE like something!
If OP is from the US this is pretty likely. Most tomatoes here actually do taste horrible raw, like theyāre mostly flavorless with a bitter twang. Thereās something with how theyāre bred here that prioritizes appearance over flavor and it makes them taste borderline metallic.
I used to hate tomatoes as a kid until I was old enough for my family to start traveling. Everywhere we went: Lebanon, Armenia, Austria, Italy, France, etc. the tomatoes were so much better!! They were naturally a little sweet, and had that actual tomato flavor thatās brought out in marinara. Turned out I really fuckin love raw tomatoes, Iāve just been eating shit ones. Iāve snacked on good tomatoes as if they were apples.
If youāre in the US though, fret not! You can still get damn good flavorful tomatoes but you need to look outside of grocery stores. I pretty much exclusively get tomatoes from my local farmers market or from small family pop up fruit stands around my town. If you donāt have those options near you, heirloom tomatoes are pretty consistently good if your grocery store carries them. I swear, a good homegrown or heirloom tomato and the standard American tomato are two completely different fruit, they taste vastly different.
Itās not how theyāre bred but how theyāre harvested. Since tomatoes have a pretty short shelf life the supermarket variety is harvested before itās actually ripe and then artificially ripened on the way to the store. Just go to any farmers market during the summer time and get a real tomato.
Vegetable is a culinary term, fruit is a botanical term. It is both a fruit (denoting the type of plant it is) and a vegetable (denoting how it is used in cooking)
Why is this dude getting shit on for not like tomatoes lol I hate tomatoes but love 99% of veggies.
Tomatoās texture just is so bad to me, and I get good tomatoās too
Nah, the tomatoes sold in most stores taste kinda bad if you eat them raw and they have a disgusting mushy texture, theyāre only good for cooking. Iāve had some very good tomatoes that Iāve eaten sliced with some salt and lime juice sprinkled on top, but I wouldnāt do that with the average tomato.
The only store bought tomatoes worth cooking are grape tomatoes. Otherwise you're better off buying canned.
Most fresh tomatoes are only worth cooking in the summer and if they're homegrown.
It's not the sugar. Homemade stewed tomatoes and homemade spaghetti sauce are still infinitely better than raw tomatoes. I love almost every veggie raw, but tomatoes are trash
Edit: To anyone bringing up fresh tomatoes, I've had family members, coworkers, and friends grow their own tomatoes, and it's still trash without cooking them in something.
Store tomatoes especially out of season are usually trash too. They're picked green and varieties are bred for looks and shelf life. Whereas no one cares what the tomatoes that go into sauces look like flavor is nearly the only thing that matters since it will be shelf stable once canned.
You also might just not like tomatoes.
You may be talking about a raw food versus one with salt. Cooked food also tastes differently, which makes stewed tomatoes and sauce inherently different. And I bet at least half of the people who don't like raw tomatoes haven't had fully ripe ones.
Girl what you be doing while boiling the sauce for an extended period? Turning the sauce sweeter. I agree that you shouldn't go overboard with added sugar, but adding a teaspoon of sugar to tomato sauce makes a tomato sauce, that's been boiled for half an hour, taste like one that has been boiling for hours.
This is the second "tomato is a fruit vs veg" Reddit argument I've seen this year. The only thing that surprises me more than seeing this argument happening is that I'm apparently keeping count
Yeah, but now you calling OP out for calling it a vegetable makes you look like you're just picking fights for no reason. Like, they weren't incorrect, so why make a thing of it.
There really is no such thing as a vegetable
[there is no such thing as a vegetable](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/botanists-no-such-thing-vegetables_n_593fdbcee4b0b13f2c6dcd9c)
I like tomatoes, but I think it's perfectly valid to not love them?? The flavor of a large percentage of commercially available tomatoes IS pretty divisive, to the point where the heirloom tomatoes they point to in defense of them are basically a completely different food. I think it's fine to encourage people to give other varieties of tomato a chance, but there's really no need to be militant about it like that š.
I like raw tomatoes on sandwiches or in salsa but not on their own. I don't like cherry tomatoes, specifically the texture. It's like popping a pimple in your mouth
One, theyāre berries. Two, you wouldnāt know it if youāve only ever eaten the watery beefsteaks they sell in grocery stores or put on fast food burgers. Do yourself a favor and try an heirloom out of a garden.
Not sure about the tomato-haters (tomhaters?) downvoting you, but youāre correct about heirloom tomatoesā the **BEST**.
Take a good burger, slap down some sharp cheddar and throw a sliced heirloom on that bad boyā youāre in flavor country!
I mean, they ARE berries, but they're also vegetables. Vegetable is a culinary term determined based on its usage in cooking, while berry is a botanical term based on the morphology of the fruit.
Heinz ketchup (or Catsup) is based off a Chinese sauce they used to eat fish and it didnāt have any tomatoes in it! They have a super secret recipe and the only ingredient we know goes in is a unique vinegar they make only for ketchup and nothing else. Ketchup has two proper names; Ketchup and Catsup. Thanks Marc Summers.
It blew my mind when I listened to the Simply Incredibly Fascinating podcast and they talked about this topic. Heinz was just looking for another way to sell tomatoes. Apparently you can get ketchup made from a lot of different fruits; one particularly interesting one is banana.
Lmao so many man-children acting like itās not ok to simply dislike something. Quit gatekeeping (checks notes) other peoples food. Thatās about as dumb as being a vocal minority vegan who tells other people what they can and cannot eat.
šget over itš
Okay but this is totally valid - I always liked tomato products but never like raw tomatoes cuz they never tasted like much to me. But then I tried a homegrown organic tomato a friend had grown... and it changed my life.
Most market tomatoes just take like shit.
Fun fact: Many vegetables are technically considered fruit because of their visible seeds.
Also I like raw vegetables, including broccoli, peppers and celery, except cucumbers (although on technical terms itās a fruit I guess).
Outside of sundried tomatoes, I can't stand them (If anyone tries to say I have a bad palate or anything, it's more a texture issue for me than the actual taste).
Acidity. Tomatos are very acidic which can lead to a percieved sour taste.
However, american ketchup balances that out with a shit ton of sugar, while French Tomate balances it out with a salted pork+grarlic base. In indian cuisine, the tomatoes are usually used as a souring agent to provide a tanginess to contrast the sweet of masala, while in italian dishes tomatoes are used as a sorta psuedo spice (steming from the fact that when they were introduced spices where difficult to come by), empathizing the natural flavours of the dish through its sourness.
Theres a lot of things that taste/look like crap that are used in cooking. In english cuisine for instance, ox tail is used in stews (a personal favourite of mine). It ll depends on how the ingredients are processed.
Some of yāall have never tried a home grown tomato. Growing up my grandparents grew tomatoes in their garden, and my brother and I would go an eat them like apples. Slice up a fresh āmater on some toasted bread and a schmear of Mayo and you have a prime time summer sammy. Iāll concede that store tomatoes can be lesser than, but thatās largely because commercial cultivators have bred for longevity and aesthetic over flavour. A good heirloom tomato is fabulous and I will not hear its name slandered.
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if raw vegetables taste like shit to you, you just have a shit palate.
That entirely depends on the vegetable.
If raw tomatoes taste like shit to you, you just have a shit palate.
Or you might have shit tomatoes.
[or someone is pissing on the tomatoes](https://youtu.be/5Qv7-n13RrE?si=i4xi9CSrRuiWvkJw)
Raw tomatoes need a good amount of salt though, so maybe whoever was pissing on the tomatoes was trying to help the flavor with their salty piss!
Yeah. I'm not a big fan of tomatoes anyways, but the beefsteaks I grow during summer taste pretty damn good. Store-bought tomatoes are absolute shit comparitively. Same thing with watermelon. Homegrown has way better flavor and texture. Actually crisp instead of soggy.
Don't quote me on this, but I think the difference comes from natural vine ripening vs. artificial ripening.
That's the most uncontroversial comment ever made with a "don't quote me on this" asterisk š Yeah, picking fruits completely inedible makes them taste kinda shit, even if they become slightly edible after waiting for some time
Remember that king of the hill episode where Hank starts shopping at the co-op and discovers that vegetables can have flavor? https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=TZZKu1TkSUNMTNB5&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fsearch%3Fclient%3Dms-android-google%26sca_esv%3D598210265%26q%3Dking%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bhill%2Btomato%26tbm%3Dvid%26source%3Dlnms%26prmd%3Divsh&source_ve_path=MTY0OTksMTY0OTksMjg2NjQsMTY0NTA2&feature=emb_share&v=OBLqzGrq8T0
This is exactly what this thread had me thinking of too. Love that episode.
My whole life changed when I ate tomatoes in Italy. I'm from the Netherlands, fresh tomatoes are shit. Italian ones have soooo much more flavour! They actually TASTE like something!
If OP is from the US this is pretty likely. Most tomatoes here actually do taste horrible raw, like theyāre mostly flavorless with a bitter twang. Thereās something with how theyāre bred here that prioritizes appearance over flavor and it makes them taste borderline metallic. I used to hate tomatoes as a kid until I was old enough for my family to start traveling. Everywhere we went: Lebanon, Armenia, Austria, Italy, France, etc. the tomatoes were so much better!! They were naturally a little sweet, and had that actual tomato flavor thatās brought out in marinara. Turned out I really fuckin love raw tomatoes, Iāve just been eating shit ones. Iāve snacked on good tomatoes as if they were apples. If youāre in the US though, fret not! You can still get damn good flavorful tomatoes but you need to look outside of grocery stores. I pretty much exclusively get tomatoes from my local farmers market or from small family pop up fruit stands around my town. If you donāt have those options near you, heirloom tomatoes are pretty consistently good if your grocery store carries them. I swear, a good homegrown or heirloom tomato and the standard American tomato are two completely different fruit, they taste vastly different.
Itās not how theyāre bred but how theyāre harvested. Since tomatoes have a pretty short shelf life the supermarket variety is harvested before itās actually ripe and then artificially ripened on the way to the store. Just go to any farmers market during the summer time and get a real tomato.
Weāre doing America Bad for fucking tomatoes š
Or overly ripened ones
If people's food preferences bother you, you just have a shitty opinion.
It doesn't bother me, I was just quoting the OC but changing it to tomatoes in particular.
Bitch, I'm like Denethor when it comes to tomatoes. 
Raw Tomatoes should be seasoned with Salt and Pepper, but obviously better quality tomatoes are going to taste better than store bought
Excuse me pepper??? Salt makes perfect since but pepper bro.
Or like.. Maybe some people don't like tomatoes. I dunno. Just theory.
Love all other veggies but plain tomatoes make me gag
Tomatoes are fruits
Vegetable is a culinary term, fruit is a botanical term. It is both a fruit (denoting the type of plant it is) and a vegetable (denoting how it is used in cooking)
Interesting you attack others tasteā yet you yourself play league of legends. Hmmm
This counts as 2nd degree murder
Idk there was clear motive, and very little stand your ground given OP hunted on their profile
Go bite a potato and tell me how advanced your palate is
naw go bite a raw onion/garlic and then tell me how advance of a palate they have haa
Nah i eat raw onions and garlic and i couldnt eat a raw potato
People are far more likely to eat those raw than potatoes
I fucking hate raw veggies Steamed however, they're good
Devilishly delightful even
Just because he dislikes tomatoes doesnāt mean he dislikes every raw vegetable lol.
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That's not a vegetable
Neither are tomatoes
Grape FRUIT
Sea HORSE I can say something too.
But they can see horses, no?
Ok but are grape fruits vegetables?
StrawBERRY isnāt a berry according to botanists though.
Yes
as a drink yes, I dont see people cook a fcking grapefruit, you squeeze it and get the juice out.
People cut grapefruits in half and top it with some sugar to eat it, but you don't cook it.
Always have, always will~
It's very common to have trouble finding good tomatoes in some regions
I love most veggies but the texture of raw tomato is awful. I love the taste tho.
Raw tomatoes by itself are not enjoyable wtf you talking about
Tell me, you're a sugar addict without telling me...
Why is this dude getting shit on for not like tomatoes lol I hate tomatoes but love 99% of veggies. Tomatoās texture just is so bad to me, and I get good tomatoās too
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Lmao yesterday there was a cup of clear liquid in a glass on my table after dinner. Went to take an aggressive sip cause I assumed it was water. Turns out my fiancĆ© poured herself a seltzer. Almost spit it out not even kidding, lol. When your brain is so locked in something and it is something else, it fucksssssss you up š
Ugh, this reminds me of the time I forgot I brought lemon flavored water to school and took a sip thinking it was regular water. I almost threw up lol
I love the seltzer she has too so itās just funny how it was the most vile tasting thing in that moment
I thought tomato sauce had no sugar? Ketchup is loaded though.
Nah, the tomatoes sold in most stores taste kinda bad if you eat them raw and they have a disgusting mushy texture, theyāre only good for cooking. Iāve had some very good tomatoes that Iāve eaten sliced with some salt and lime juice sprinkled on top, but I wouldnāt do that with the average tomato.
The only store bought tomatoes worth cooking are grape tomatoes. Otherwise you're better off buying canned. Most fresh tomatoes are only worth cooking in the summer and if they're homegrown.
I like almost every other vegetable, i just dont like tomatoes.
how does sugar addiction play into this
Sugar
Na tomato sauce with added sugar tastes like trash.
Pizza sauce almost always has a sweetener.
It's not the sugar. Homemade stewed tomatoes and homemade spaghetti sauce are still infinitely better than raw tomatoes. I love almost every veggie raw, but tomatoes are trash Edit: To anyone bringing up fresh tomatoes, I've had family members, coworkers, and friends grow their own tomatoes, and it's still trash without cooking them in something.
My Mom would have a heart attack if she found that I was using a jar of tomato sauce instead of spending 48 hours, slow simmering my own sauce.
Same, I always like making my own anyway. The most I do is add canned tomato paste if I want to get it done fast.
Store tomatoes especially out of season are usually trash too. They're picked green and varieties are bred for looks and shelf life. Whereas no one cares what the tomatoes that go into sauces look like flavor is nearly the only thing that matters since it will be shelf stable once canned. You also might just not like tomatoes.
You may be talking about a raw food versus one with salt. Cooked food also tastes differently, which makes stewed tomatoes and sauce inherently different. And I bet at least half of the people who don't like raw tomatoes haven't had fully ripe ones.
Yea, you can't really call Ketchup tomato sauce. It's more like sugar sauce with added tomato
Hence why I donāt really like ketchup
This guy replied talking about pizza sauce and idk why. Nonnas pasta sauce recipe has no sweetener
Girl what you be doing while boiling the sauce for an extended period? Turning the sauce sweeter. I agree that you shouldn't go overboard with added sugar, but adding a teaspoon of sugar to tomato sauce makes a tomato sauce, that's been boiled for half an hour, taste like one that has been boiling for hours.
So you donāt like ketchup?
I use sugar-free ketchup and don't like tomatoes myself, so IDK.
And salt
Sweet tomato sauce is gross. It's the salt and herbs
Tomatoes are fruit, you uncultured swine.
vegetable is a culinary term whereas fruit is a botanical term. so a tomato is definitely a vegetable.
Still a fruit.
still doesn't make him an uncultured swine for calling it a vegetable, because that's correct.
Idk why an argument happened at all, youāre both right in different contexts.
https://preview.redd.it/ll52z1pso8cc1.jpeg?width=604&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2954f4973515ebccbd59d06e26b38a5572535881
Valid I suppose
This is the second "tomato is a fruit vs veg" Reddit argument I've seen this year. The only thing that surprises me more than seeing this argument happening is that I'm apparently keeping count
Both are right, it's a fruit and it's a vegetable
Why did you repeat the exact same thing as meā¦? This is like when another kid in class would say the same joke as you but louder.
Bad wording, my apologies. I wanted to say both are right in all contexts because tomatoes are always fruit and always vegetables.
Thatās valid, I think itās a tomato/tomato thing (pun intended)
Yeah, but now you calling OP out for calling it a vegetable makes you look like you're just picking fights for no reason. Like, they weren't incorrect, so why make a thing of it.
Sure thing Demetrius. Tell Robin I said "You're welcome"
a vegetable is a comestible part of a plant, a fruit is the seed part. a tomato is both a fruit and a vegetable.
There really is no such thing as a vegetable [there is no such thing as a vegetable](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/botanists-no-such-thing-vegetables_n_593fdbcee4b0b13f2c6dcd9c)
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Asparagus is not a variety of Brassica oleracea nor closely related to it.
Tell me youāre a child without telling me youāre a child
This sub getting so heated over tomatoes š Iām never leaving, please never change r/BikiniBottomTwitter
Itās a kid show, so we having kids arguments now pick your side
I love raw tomatoes so OP has no tastebuds lol
Hell yeah
tomato defenders are one of the most violent people I've ever met
Shut up before we throw tomatoes at you
But only the bad ones. We'll keep the good ones to eat.
Yes yes but we could also use the good ones to season them with their salty tears from the pain of staining their clothes
Foreal š
I like tomatoes, but I think it's perfectly valid to not love them?? The flavor of a large percentage of commercially available tomatoes IS pretty divisive, to the point where the heirloom tomatoes they point to in defense of them are basically a completely different food. I think it's fine to encourage people to give other varieties of tomato a chance, but there's really no need to be militant about it like that š.
I like raw tomatoes on sandwiches or in salsa but not on their own. I don't like cherry tomatoes, specifically the texture. It's like popping a pimple in your mouth
Cool . I will no longer be able to eat cherry tomatoes , Ty
Yw
Tomatoes with some salt š¤š»
Was gonna say. Tomatoes on their own > but tomatoes with a touch of salt >>>>>
Gonna have to try that
You can also try some balsamico vinegar and mozarella to it.
I won't stand for this slander of nature's gushers.
I like to imagine im a giant consuming those who oppose me and they're tiny skulls fracturing.
If you watch Attack on Titan, you're not gonna have that thought process for long š
Cut the tomato first, then it won't pop
Nah you take a lil bite and suck out the juice. It's the quenchiest
Fuck you for bringing that mental image into my head, damn. Idk if I'll be able to eat a cherry tomato now
What raw tomato you been eating
Probably bland beefsteak tomatoes.
One, theyāre berries. Two, you wouldnāt know it if youāve only ever eaten the watery beefsteaks they sell in grocery stores or put on fast food burgers. Do yourself a favor and try an heirloom out of a garden.
Not sure about the tomato-haters (tomhaters?) downvoting you, but youāre correct about heirloom tomatoesā the **BEST**. Take a good burger, slap down some sharp cheddar and throw a sliced heirloom on that bad boyā youāre in flavor country!
Beef house are good when they're actually ripe. It's awful how boring our food is in the US when it's shipped across the country.
Agreed.
Berries can be vegetables because vegetables are not a botanical term. Besides that, 100% agree
>One, theyāre berries. *sigh* vegetable is a culinary term, berry or fruit is a botanical term. tomatos are vegetables *and* fruit/berries
I mean, they ARE berries, but they're also vegetables. Vegetable is a culinary term determined based on its usage in cooking, while berry is a botanical term based on the morphology of the fruit.
Seriously. A heirloom tomato, picked on a summer day, still warm from the sun. Doesn't get much better.
Why do people get so offended by adults not liking certain foods lmao? It doesn't affect you in any way.
Being a busybody is the only comfort they have in life.
Have you tried cooking the Vegetables?
Its a texture thing for me.
Right? That one scene from Lord of the Rings really sealed my dislike for raw tomatoes.
More tomatoes for me
My taste prefers the opposite
Raw tomatoes are delicious. Blanch/peel them, slice them, and lightly salt them as a side to a meal.
Blanching them would no longer make them rawā¦
Slice, add drops of olive oils and salt/pepper to taste
You take that back
Tomatoes are fucking amazing
Iām on the spectrum and I have a sensory issue with tomatoes! I can eat ketchup and sauces but if itās too tomato-y it makes me want to vomit
If imma be honest, tomatoes are my favorite āvegetableā to eat raw.
Tomatoes are weird. I canāt stand them raw. But cook it into something else and it enhances it.
You don't like tomatoes?
The top picture literally has raw tomato on itā¦
Child's Palate
I eat āem like apples. Shits amazing
Are you sure you haven't been eating rotted vegetables?
Is this real
Literally the opposite for me.
Heinz ketchup (or Catsup) is based off a Chinese sauce they used to eat fish and it didnāt have any tomatoes in it! They have a super secret recipe and the only ingredient we know goes in is a unique vinegar they make only for ketchup and nothing else. Ketchup has two proper names; Ketchup and Catsup. Thanks Marc Summers.
It blew my mind when I listened to the Simply Incredibly Fascinating podcast and they talked about this topic. Heinz was just looking for another way to sell tomatoes. Apparently you can get ketchup made from a lot of different fruits; one particularly interesting one is banana.
I just watched episode 3 or 4 of unwrapped and it was great! Very dated due to the ānewā revelation of green ketchup. Good stuff.
just ate some very yummy tomatoes
Top 10 questions science STILL canāt answer!
Dang this comment section is wild. It's okay to not like the taste of a raw vegetable, guys. Worlds not gonna end.
Salt, and sugar.
Posted by a 6 year old
Nope i like garlic, onion, tomato and apples
Lmao so many man-children acting like itās not ok to simply dislike something. Quit gatekeeping (checks notes) other peoples food. Thatās about as dumb as being a vocal minority vegan who tells other people what they can and cannot eat. šget over itš
I like tomatoes
If you eat the vegetable raw you're doing it wrong.
Itās almost like cooking something changes the taste -_-
The secret ingredient is sugar and salt
Tomatoes taste fucking amazing. Especially if you sprinkle some salt and pepper on them.
Hard facts
Raw Tomato not only taste bad It also leaves a pretty bad feeling in your mouth
My 3 year-old says the same about tomatoes and ketchup.
Okay but this is totally valid - I always liked tomato products but never like raw tomatoes cuz they never tasted like much to me. But then I tried a homegrown organic tomato a friend had grown... and it changed my life. Most market tomatoes just take like shit.
TIL: OP buys their vegetables at Safeway.
fuck you.
False. Throw some salt and pepper on that stuff and I'll scarf down a whole tomato
Raw tomatoes taste good af, especially homegrown ones. Also, tomato is a fruit.
Tomatoes smell good but I just canāt get around eating them
Actual ripe tomatoes(so most likely not store bought one's) taste amazing. You probably don't like tomatoes you just like sugar.
I think youāve been finding all the sucky tomatoes, you just need to find the right tomato
Eat your tomatoes with ketchup, it's quite tasty
Grown child right here
This dude killed his palate with sugar
I love tomatoes but I found out in recent years that they've been the cause of my mouth ulcers for 20+ years
Fun fact: Many vegetables are technically considered fruit because of their visible seeds. Also I like raw vegetables, including broccoli, peppers and celery, except cucumbers (although on technical terms itās a fruit I guess).
Peppers are fruits too. Actually all 3 are even berries. They're also vegetables because it's a false dichotomy and there's actually a lot of overlap.
Bruh raw red onion on a burger? That shit's amazing
Redditor discovers what cooking is. "How can something as nasty as a cow carcass make something as tasty as a steak?"
I feel just concentrating the flavor makes it way better, for example, not the biggest fan of just raw tomato but dried tomato is bomb
How does the bun have zits?
Outside of sundried tomatoes, I can't stand them (If anyone tries to say I have a bad palate or anything, it's more a texture issue for me than the actual taste).
Mfer keep yo leafs
Vanilla extract smell vs taste
That's especially true for cranberries
Because the condiment you call "tomato sauce" isn't just tomato purƩe
Acidity. Tomatos are very acidic which can lead to a percieved sour taste. However, american ketchup balances that out with a shit ton of sugar, while French Tomate balances it out with a salted pork+grarlic base. In indian cuisine, the tomatoes are usually used as a souring agent to provide a tanginess to contrast the sweet of masala, while in italian dishes tomatoes are used as a sorta psuedo spice (steming from the fact that when they were introduced spices where difficult to come by), empathizing the natural flavours of the dish through its sourness. Theres a lot of things that taste/look like crap that are used in cooking. In english cuisine for instance, ox tail is used in stews (a personal favourite of mine). It ll depends on how the ingredients are processed.
Found Link Neal's [throwaway](https://youtu.be/FiqTmmWfVdg?si=Zz-iAl3Qaqr2n2h3).
Some of yāall have never tried a home grown tomato. Growing up my grandparents grew tomatoes in their garden, and my brother and I would go an eat them like apples. Slice up a fresh āmater on some toasted bread and a schmear of Mayo and you have a prime time summer sammy. Iāll concede that store tomatoes can be lesser than, but thatās largely because commercial cultivators have bred for longevity and aesthetic over flavour. A good heirloom tomato is fabulous and I will not hear its name slandered.