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>>12706778
>Sliced tomatoes on a burger are enough to ruin it for me
The problem is you're using soggy McDonald's tomatoes as a baseline.

Get a real, fresh tomato. Shit is delicious.

Raw tomatoes have more grassy flavor which can put you off if you rarely eat raw vegetables.

>>12706778
for me it's split pea soup, can't even smell it without gagging, because I got sick once when eating it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditioned_taste_aversion

>>12706778
Ketchup and those sauces are full of sugar. Hardly taste of tomato.
Ever tried a ripe to the brim tomato?

>>12706778
used to hate them as a child. but eventually I started liking their savory taste. try different kinds—cherry/plum/beef etc. maybe you simply tried shit tomatoes.
that said, they do have some features that might put people off. the acidity and "grassy"/weird taste. I can see how one might simply not like them.

>>12706778
Too acidic and watery. A good seared tomato will basically taste like ketchup and is delicious, without any sugar needed.

I'd say the pizza sauce has much more common with fresh tomato than with ketchup

>>12706778
My brother is the same way. He loves cooked tomato dishes, even tomatoes on pizza and ratatouille, and he loves sun dried tomatoes, but if you put fresh tomato slices on his burger or sandwich, he'll call it ruined and gets mad as fuck, while picking the tomato off like it's a dead rat or something. I just don't fucking get it. He gets totally grossed out watching me make and eat a summer tomato sandwich. It's funny..

Stop eating shit tomatoes, ya dingus.

Yeah, you probably ate shitty tomatoes, faggetio.

Same here. I love canned tomatoes and tomato sauces, but raw tomato is so watery and gross to me. They're alright sliced and cooked if they're going with something else tasty, alone they're horrible. Probably cause I only buy cheap shit though

The only time I have enjoyed an uncooked sliced tomato was first time I tried a proper garden grown real ass organic tomato no bullshit not from a shop tasted so much better than anything I'd ever tried.

veggie/fruit hate thread on the front page!

>>12706778
>I like ketchup

Same. My dad loves tomatoes and he used to grow them in his garden. I never tried one because they looked gross and the smell was nauseating. I bit into one like an apple at his behest, and immediately vomited. My old mans face was next level.

I’ve tried a few separate times since then to see if my taste buds have changed, but nope. Actual tomatoes instantly make me vomit, but pizza and spaghetti sauce is the tits.

>>12706778
1) Stop buying shit-tier tomatoes.
2) Stop keeping your newly-acquired nonshit tomatoes in the fridge to maintain their nonshittude.

Because the things you mentioned aren't comprised of only tomatoes, thus altering the taste.

look, just be sherlock holmes. what is the difference between a raw tomato and all the tomato products you like? easy. they all cook the tomato. a cooked tomato is totallydifferent in flavor and texture profile than a raw tomato, and likely has some of the poisonous alkaloids cooked away. to test this theory, eat some pico de gallo or salsa cruda, raw chopped tomatos mixed with onions/peppers. you should get the same reaction. hell, i love raw tomatos and my reaction in my mouth is totally different from cooked. its completely different food.

>>12706778
Because you have been raised in a diet of fat, salt and sugar that has destroyed your taste buds.

I love tomatoes, insofar they are not too "soft". In fact, theres many variety of tomatoes. Try maybe the small ones.

>>12706778
>ketchup, spaghetti sauce, pizza sauce

Anon, lol, just because tomatoes are an ingredient in those foods doesn’t mean that they taste like tomatoes.

It’s multifaceted: you like sugar, you dislike texture, you like what’s comfortable

>>12706778
You've probably never had a non GMO tomato. They have a very strong flavor and are loaded with naturally occurring MSG. GMO tomatoes are shit. They're just watery plants with a very weak taste.

>>12706778
You might have a cause of extreme underageism.

Get a load of THIS autism:

I think caprese salad is fucking delicious, but I cannot eat a raw tomato by itself.

I love fresh, raw veggies - cucumber, carrots, celery, spinach, kale, beets, you name it. But I cannot, cannot eat a raw tomato without gagging a little bit.

I think the basil, mozzarella, and vinaigrette provide JUST enough flavor to balance out exactly what it is I hate about raw tomato. So I'm with you there, OP.

>>12706778
Supposedly there's a gene that's fairly commonplace that makes people absolutely despise something that's in maters that ain't in a lot of other food, and that goes away when it is cooked.

I'm the same way. Raw maters are disgusting, but fried green maters are delicious, sun dried maters are delicious, any mater sauce is great, stewed maters are delicious, mater soup, etc.

>All this "ketchup is sugary" meme
The dominant ingredient in ketchup, by far, is the vinegar.
If you took out the sugar it would still taste like ketchup. If you took out the vinegar it would become completely unrecognizable as ketchup.
And there isn't even a lot of sugar in it for that matter.
2g sugar in a McDonald's ketchup packet.
You would need to eat 20 ketchup packets to match the sugar in just a single can of Coke.

>>12711241
two grams? aren't those packets like 10 grams total?

>>12711259
No. 2 grams.

>>12706778
>Why do I like ketchup, spaghetti sauce, pizza sauce, etc, but I absolutely despise actual tomatoes?
>Sliced tomatoes on a burger are enough to ruin it for me and the idea of biting into a tomato like an apple makes me gag.
Most supermarket and restaurant raw tomatoes are bad. They're picked unripe to transport long distances. Some of the problem with the varietals popular in stores are fixed by cooking into sauces. A bad tomato can be mealy and bland as a wet sponge, or else bitter seed filled. Remember unripe plants are meant to be gross, deterring animals from consuming them before seeds are ready.

It'll come in time when your palate matures and you get access to better tomatoes that you like raw tomatoes too. Brands like Campari, TastiLee and others were attempts at making ripe flavors and textures in marketable tomatoes. Heirloom imitations with better shelf life. Start there, and enhance tomatoes at first with salt, pepper, and vinaigrettes and strong flavors til you get over it.
Bruschetta topping: chopped tomatoes, raw garlic, fresh basil olive oil, balsamic vinegar. Marinate, and scoop on top of fresh toasted garlic bread toasts. BLTs, enjoy the marriage of mayo+ripe tomato juices making almost a version of ketchup or secret sauce, combined with bitter lettuce and toasted excellent bread. Bacon or burger, there is that marriage. Remember tomatoes need a bit of salt.