• Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    Same here. And every time I say it someone pipes up with “well you just haven’t had a good one.” Well, I have had one that tomato-eaters say is really good. I’ve had it with salt, I’ve had it with pepper, I’ve even had it with sugar. It still tastes and feels like a tomato, and I don’t like that.

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      10 months ago

      I can understand. For me it’s cucumber that I hate.

      I have no problem with picked cucumber but fresh cucumber taste horrible for me.

      I’m sure it’s a delicious vegetable but it’s not for me.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah, if you don’t like the tomato flavour of tomatoes, there’s not a whole lot different varieties are going to do for you, or having them be vine ripened or freshly picked for that matter. Increasing the sugar content doesn’t make them taste less like tomatoes, it just makes them taste like sweet tomatoes.

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      10 months ago

      Had a garden tomato yet? Like one that hasn’t been picked unripe, refrigerated, shipped across the country and left to ripen artificially on a shelf so it ends up tasting like water and disappointment?

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        10 months ago

        See? I knew there’d be at least one.

        I’ve literally grown my own tomatoes because people kept telling me this. And even fresh off the vine, still warm from the sun, it tastes and feels like a tomato.

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        10 months ago

        Yes. I’ve had the fanciest tomatoes that people rave over and I still hate them raw. It’s like tomato lovers just can’t fathom that they just taste gross to some people. Cooked tomatoes are great, raw are not for me.

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          10 months ago

          Ok yeah then that’s valid, some people just don’t like raw tomatoes. I just wanted to make sure you didn’t just get a “fancy tomato” from the store and decided you didn’t like it.