Tomatoes

[tp4tissue]

Anyone else think tomatoes taste salty ?


But theres hardly any salt in a tomato..

[rowdy]

No.

[SpAmRaY]

They do after I'm done putting salt on them.

[Halverson]

Isn't it the msg that makes em taste that way?


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[fohat.digs]

Tomatoes are the only fruit that I salt.

[rowdy]

Tomatoes are the only fruit that I salt.

Somehow I never really think of tomatoes as a "fruit", although biologically they are.

[fohat.digs]

Somehow I never really think of tomatoes as a "fruit", although biologically they are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden

Down near the end you see that the Europeans classified carrots as fruit - WTF?

[rowdy]

Somehow I never really think of tomatoes as a "fruit", although biologically they are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden

I've always referred to them as "salad items", like lettuce.  "Vegetable" just seems wrong, regardless what the US supreme court says.

[fohat.digs]

"Vegetable" just seems wrong, regardless what the US supreme court says.

I once had an epiphany when I read something by a chef or food expert on bell peppers.

He said something to the effect that: "a green pepper is a vegetable, but a red pepper is a fruit"

[rowdy]

"Vegetable" just seems wrong, regardless what the US supreme court says.

I once had an epiphany when I read something by a chef or food expert on bell peppers.

He said something to the effect that: "a green pepper is a vegetable, but a red pepper is a fruit"

That's an interesting observation.

It does seem that there are more green than red vegetables, and more red than green fruits (assuming ripe fruits, that is).

But I don't cook enough to let it bother me either way.

[SpAmRaY]

Tomatoes are the only fruit that I salt.

I salt apple slices.

[dgneo]

I ****ing hate tomatoes.

I love tomato sauce tho.

[chyros]

Who eats tomatoes, they don't taste of anything anyway. It's like sticking slices of water in your food, I don't see the point .

[Signature]

Who eats tomatoes, they don't taste of anything anyway. It's like sticking slices of water in your food, I don't see the point .

You should try some Italian tomatoes 

[fohat.digs]

Who eats tomatoes, they don't taste of anything anyway. It's like sticking slices of water in your food, I don't see the point .

Good real fresh ripe tomatoes grown in real soil are exquisite.

Styrofoam tomatoes like the ones sold in most supermarkets for most of the year are less than useless.

Fresh real ripe home-grown cantaloupes can come as an epiphany, too.

[SBJ]

Who eats tomatoes, they don't taste of anything anyway. It's like sticking slices of water in your food, I don't see the point .

You should try some Italian tomatoes 

Or cherry tomatoes. So good!

[tp4tissue]

Who eats tomatoes, they don't taste of anything anyway. It's like sticking slices of water in your food, I don't see the point .

You should try some Italian tomatoes 

Or cherry tomatoes. So good!

I think they're able to pick cherry tomatoes at a more ripe condition vs regular tomatoes because the wall is thicker relative to the total weight of the fruit..

So if you think about it,  the regular size tomato wall is about the same thickness, but relative to the weight of the fruit, when ripe, it's still not quite enough to bundle from falling apart it if there are lots of other tomatoes sitting on top crushing the bottom ones.

Whereas, the small tiny tomatoes have less pressure to sustain even if riper, ontop of better more even weight distribution as they're smaller relative to each other.

[Waateva]

My wife and father-in-law absolutely hate tomatoes, and even though my wife still likes tomato sauces my father-in-law won't eat them and will even order pizzas with no sauce.

I personally don't mind them, even though I try to avoid them at fast food places because they are almost never ripe and unripe tomatoes are really gross.  I've never noticed them being particularly salty either, although if I am eating them by themselves I tend to put salt on them so maybe that's why

[tp4tissue]

My wife and father-in-law absolutely hate tomatoes, and even though my wife still likes tomato sauces my father-in-law won't eat them and will even order pizzas with no sauce.

I personally don't mind them, even though I try to avoid them at fast food places because they are almost never ripe and unripe tomatoes are really gross.  I've never noticed them being particularly salty either, although if I am eating them by themselves I tend to put salt on them so maybe that's why

pizza with no sauce...