Food Fight: Mayo Discourse

I will eat tomatoes if they are cooked and in something else - curry, ketchup, etc. - but raw they are Gross.

 

this is like 100% the opposite of my feelings on tomatoes, the seed bits are my least fave and as a kid I would remove them from burger/sandwich slices before eating. still would, if they were particularly noticeable. somehow the only tolerable tomato squish comes from fresh-off-the-plant, sun-warmed cherry toms bc then it's like eating a normal delicious fruit that sort of resembles tomato

cooked tomato is gr8, fresh tomato soup is heavenly. romas all the way (they are fleshier and less seedy so they even make for good fresh eating)

ketchup is a food group, fite me

 

There is something utterly off-putting about the texture of tomatoes as far as I'm concerned, be they cruddy supermarket tomatoes or very pretty-looking garden tomatoes. Finely diced enough (like bruschetta) it doesn't set off my gag reflex, but once the pieces get big enough the texture become a hard nope.

Tomato sauce is fine so long as it's pureed, so at least my textural issues don't interfere with my love of pasta.

 

Barbecue sauce >>>> ketchup

 

barbecue sauce is ketchup with superpowers, and I respect that

 

I'm not surprised. One more thing the Food Pyramid has to answer for, I suspect.

This is another thing with tomatoes that really matters. There are varieties that are incredibly different, in taste, texture, and best use. I wouldn't eat just any old tomato like it was nothing, but one kind of purple tomato is just too tasty to waste with cooking. Maybe slicing it up to go with something else, if I have to wait.

 

See I was in the tomatoes are gross category my whole life until I grew my own heirloom varieties... WORLD O' FUCKIN' DIFFERENCE. Holy shit, what they sell in the grocery stores should not be allowed to be called a tomato.

 

It's one of those things that happens because grocery store varieties are bred/engineered mostly for a) ability to keep well during transportation and b) looking good on display. Compare the offense against all that is good in the world that is the Red Delicious apple. I'd imagine it's especially bad with tomatoes because they're so squishy that transport is extra tricky.

 

i grew up on heirlooms and they still disgust me ): it's tragic

 

Ugh. Red delicious, my nemesis apple. Never has a cultivar name been so exactly the opposite of what it advertises.

 

(stares directly @ ur general direction as i take a big ole chomp of a tomato)

Altho i agree many grocery store tomatoes taste like nothing and sadness

 

Local demon secretly comprised by many smol local rats

 

(insert footage of a rat licking the inside of a tomato... mlem)

((Are tomatoes good for rats? I have no idea but i also don't have any pet rats to feed tomatoes to so it doesnt matter))

 

If I remember right, they used to actually be good decades ago, but they got selected more and more heavily for looks and keeping well and ended up inedible.

Fun "I have apple farmer relatives" fact: Currently the biggest market for US-grown Red Delicious is China, because they don't have a lot of domestic apple production and they sell really well over there because red=lucky and "being red" is the one area where RDs blow everything else out of the water.

 

I like Elstar apples, they are the best :D

They're the best combination of tart and sweet <3

 

good tomato versions: ketchup, tomato sauce for pasta or pizza or curry or whatever, sun-dried tomatoes baked on savory baked goods
bad tomato versions: raw tomatoes, tomato soup

 

I think I read a paper and they found a lot of the genes for texture/color/taste are linked in apples, which explains at least in part why the breeding for the red color coincided with the decrease in actual quality as a food.

 

The solution is to eat pink lady and Granny Smith apples.

 

relevant bit starting at about 1:45. I've never gotten the granny smith hype, only yellow apples taste good.

 

pink ladies are the BEST