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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Eating tomatoes with just feta cheese and olives is something else.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Even with only lime juice and salt, they are like crack to me.
Or buffalo mozarella and balsamico
Stop, I can only get so erect.
Plot twist. The local farmers market dealer is also a crack dealer. The tomatoes have a light layer of crack on them.
Sprinkle some crack on 'em, and let’s get out of here!
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?
Okay let’s test it: Do you like licorice? I hate it, but the comment you replied to was talking about bliss
Red or black?
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
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.
Yuck! I hate olives. ;)
Black or green?
I like a nice salad of tomatoes and cucumbers with french dressing and a little pepper. Some feta would make it even better!