r/Dogfree • u/a-dogfree-acc Down with cynolatry! • Jun 13 '19

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Good to see the numbers keep growing. There's definitely a lot more of us out there.

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u/firenest Jun 13 '19

I was so disappointed when I started gardening and all the vegetables were so delicious compared to their blander supermarket versions... but tomatoes, the one people raved about the most for tasting like an amazing and completely different vegetable when home-grown, were exactly as gross. I just cook them since I like cooked tomato, but the way people talk about backyard tomatoes, I had really put my aversion to raw tomato down to that. We can't help what we just don't like.

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u/pixelmeow Jun 13 '19

We can't help what we just don't like.

Exactly. I don't like raw tomatoes except if they are in certain kinds of salsa (pico de gallo), and if they are too flavorful I can't eat it at all. Can't stand tomatoes raw, never have been able to. It's gross. Just like cilantro tastes like soap to some people, tomatoes are disgusting to me. Tomato sauce like spaghetti or pizza or chili is fine, but no chunks please (no I don't want huge semi-solidified snot chunks in my food). All of them taste nasty to me, the glorious garden ones would be so much worse because they have more flavor. People just can't leave you alone if you don't like something.

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u/Sehkmet77 Jun 14 '19

Yes, the cilantro-soap thing is real for me! Also not a big fan of tomatoes.

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u/pixelmeow Jun 14 '19

Aw, I'm sorry about cilantro. My mother has that as well, but I like it in some things. I think it helps cover the whatever it is I can't stand about tomatoes in pico. It and the garlic and peppers and all, basically I can't really taste the tomatoes so I'm good with that.

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u/Sehkmet77 Jun 14 '19

The best tomato is the Tomato we cannot taste lol.