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People feel icky about fresh tomatoes? Really?



Tomatoes are so bitter I'd assume they were poisonous if I didn't know about other people eating them.

I can't think of anything else that's even close to tomatoes. I don't touch beer or coffee with a ten-foot pole either, but tomatoes are worse even than that.

There's a chemical(s) in raw tomatoes that most people just aren't able to taste. Cooking alters it in some way; I like tomato soup and stuff, and was very surprised to learn, at 25, that most people find tomatoes and tomato soup taste similar, when they couldn't be more different to me.

Liking tomatoes is basically like being colour blind, except that they're a majority, which makes the non-colour blind people the weird ones.




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