Am I alone in this?

[JimAde]

When I was a kid I used to eat tomatoes with a little sugar sprinkled on them.

But everything's good with sugar.

 

[reveal]

When I was a kid I used to eat tomatoes with a little sugar sprinkled on them.

But everything's good with sugar.

Just a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down
The medicine go dooooown
Medicine go down

Just a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down
In the most delightful way

 

[Angel Tarragon]

When I was a kid I used to eat tomatoes with a little sugar sprinkled on them.

Tomatoes with sugar? Hmmmm.

 

[der_kluge]

I'm not a fan of most vegetables, but I'll eat tomato paste, tomato sauce, as long as it's marinara. I don't like chunky tomatos in my chili, on my pizza, or in my spaghetti. I couldn't ever see myself eating a raw tomato. Those things are just too digusting-looking.

And I loathe onions. One of my least-favorite foods. I'll only eat them as fried onion rings, and even then I don't particularly care for them all that much. It's the texture of the food as much as anything.

I'm also strange in that I'd rather -
- eat pears out of can than eat a fresh pear
- drink orange juice rather than eat an orange

 

[Angel Tarragon]

- drink orange juice rather than eat an orange

me too.

 

[Aeson]

I'm with you reveal. Tomatoes cooked in any fashion but not raw.

 

[Zappo]

Up until a few years ago, I couldn't stand cooked cheese. No matter what kind of cheese and how it is heated, I wouldn't eat it - but I eat cold cheese and drink milk all right (but not if it's been cooked beforehand!). I swear that, even after cooling down, it has a different taste and smell that I just can't tolerate.

Nowadays, I slowly got used to a moderate amount of cooked cheese in my food. It doesn't bother me as long as it's not much. Still, I never eat white pizzas and I wouldn't touch a dish made entirely of cooked cheese unless I were literally starving. The smell of grilled cheese makes me sick from a few meters, and I can't even think about eating it. I'd rather eat bugs and boiled bark.

 

[reveal]

Up until a few years ago, I couldn't stand cooked cheese. No matter what kind of cheese and how it is heated, I wouldn't eat it - but I eat cold cheese and drink milk all right (but not if it's been cooked beforehand!). I swear that, even after cooling down, it has a different taste and smell that I just can't tolerate.

Nowadays, I slowly got used to a moderate amount of cooked cheese in my food. It doesn't bother me as long as it's not much. Still, I never eat white pizzas and I wouldn't touch a dish made entirely of cooked cheese unless I were literally starving. The smell of grilled cheese makes me sick from a few meters, and I can't even think about eating it. I'd rather eat bugs and boiled bark.

So what you're saying is that you're a gamer who doesn't like pizza?! Sacrilege!!

And you live in Italy. Aren't there a lot of Italian dishes with melted cheese or am I just being an ignorant American and thinking only of Italian dishes I eat here in the States?

 

[Vraille Darkfang]

There is nothing like a chilled fresh from the garden tomato sliced up on a plate with some salt, pepper and a little olive oil sprinkled on. Gimme a knife and a fork! *drooling*

Which is the problem.

I live in farm country. We get our tomatoes in 2 ways. Fresh from the garden or cooked in a can.

Tomatoes go bad fast, so most (in grocery stores) are picked green the 'ripened' via ethylene gas. This causes the skin to turn red, but does not cause the actual fruit to ripen. Thus, almost all grocery tomatoes are underripe pieces of doo-doo. Th only way to get a fresh tomatoe is to pick it yourself (in the US anyway).

However, many sauce makers have their factory right next to their vegetable crop. Thus they can afford to wait till the tomatoes are ripe, pick them, go across the road and put them in a pot. I think Del-Monte makes all the tomatoe sauce in just 6-8 weeks when the tomatoes get ripe.

Thus the only real way to eat a good tomatoe is to pick it yourself or buy a good sauce made from ripe tomatoes.

 

[devilbat]

Similar, but not the same. I like tomato sauce/paste, so long as it's well-spiced and well-pureed. I do not like tomatos in any other form, raw, cooked, cold or warm. If it's identifiable as a tomato and not red sauce, I don't like it.

Pretty much the same goes for me.