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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

Eating tomatoes with just feta cheese and olives is something else.

Edit: I ment as they are, not a salad! From where I come(wink wink check profile), we do it a lot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

It's a completely reasonable snack! Lol

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I know taste is subjective, but as far as I'm concerned, those are three gigantic nopes. 😝

I wonder how many people dislike the same groups of things?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Okay let's test it: Do you like licorice? I hate it, but the comment you replied to was talking about bliss

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Absolutely love liquorice - well at least the British version of it which is like 50% aniseed. Not so much a fan of the Nordic version which tastes saltier than salt.

Other often-contentious dislikes of mine:

  • Butter (ish - I have a really low tolerance before it tastes like it's gone rancid)
  • Yogurt
  • Fish (fish that doesn't really taste of anything, e.g. cod, is ok)
  • Vinegar
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I share a good number of these. I don't like tomato, olives, or anything fishy tasting. I do like anise flavored things such as black licorice.

The remaining stuff our tastes differ on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I'm blown away when people say aniseed is similar to licorice. Aniseed is good, licorice is gross.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Nonono, aniseed is amazing; licorice is not. If you mix them you spoil the aniseed of course...

Anyway I love butter, I like yogurt and fish and I'm ambivalent about vinegar, I like it on some things more than others.

I can't think of any other flavors I don't like, I certainly have preferences but I can tolerate most foods I'm not that much into. Only exceptions would be avocado and pineapple which are painful to digest, but their taste is fine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Let's go for both. Are they too different for you? I like aniseed but not licorice. They taste very different to me and I can't recall enjoying anything labeled as licorice, although where I grew up I didn't have that distinction in color or name for it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Or just decent heirloom tomatoes, not the mealy garbage spread across half of the grocery. There are so many varieties with an abundance of unique flavors, and all relatively easy to grow yourself. Heirloom roma tomatoes are hearty, delicious, and culinarily versatile, so they’ve been my pick for ages. Haven’t lucked into an unpleasant variety yet!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm always sad when tomatoes season ends. IMO tomatoes are the singular item with the biggest difference between grocery store and local heirloom ones. It's like night and day.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Tomatoes for selling are hardier varieties to hold up to the impacts of shipping, they are also picked unripe and ripen in transit.

The only way to get good tomatoes is grow them yourself or hit up a farmers market.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I live in a farming area and there are no real farmer's markets here. The supposed farmer's market is mostly low-grade Etsy crafts and maybe two tables reselling grocery store produce at 300% markup.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That sucks, even our local grocery store sells farm direct for a few select items. This is in a LARGE city.

What kind of farming community doesn’t have a market for them to sell privately?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I didn't know heirlooms would be just as easy to grow. I might give it a go... I love their taste, unfortunately the price is a bit on the ridiculous sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

If you’ve ever managed to keep a plant alive for a week, they’re almost certainly within your capacity! They are ridiculously hard to unintentionally kill.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Even with only lime juice and salt, they are like crack to me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Or buffalo mozarella and balsamico

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Stop, I can only get so erect.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Plot twist. The local farmers market dealer is also a crack dealer. The tomatoes have a light layer of crack on them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Sprinkle some crack on 'em, and let's get out of here!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Both. I don't like bitter foods, and they're both bitter to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I like a nice salad of tomatoes and cucumbers with french dressing and a little pepper. Some feta would make it even better!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Aaaaaa I have very specific use cases for feta, but no thank you by itself. Or in most things.

Tomatoes or olives alone… I’m with ya 100%.