Post about your hatred of this most vile of vegetables here!
Posted by MLLASH on :
The tomato is actually a fruit.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
You see what kind of vile lies the anti-tomato mob is capable of!?
Posted by MLLASH on :
The true vilest vegetable is beets.
Beets taste like Hitler's crap.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
The U.S. Supreme Court declared the tomato a vegetable in 1893.
Posted by disaster boy on :
i actually do not like tomatoes.
i worked in tomato fields one summer in high school:
....the smell in the fields of still green tomatoes being harvested, smashed, and rotting, mixed with dust, and bugs...has to be the most gawd aweful smell i have ever encountered.
it beats the smell of day old crap and vomit. Posted by MLLASH on :
That's a myth, not unlike the snuffaluffagus and the edibility of beets.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
quote:Originally posted by disaster boy: it beats the smell of day old crap and vomit.
Even Hitler's day old crap and vomit?
Posted by disaster boy on :
yes EVEN hitler's. by far...
and you must realize all the smashed up ones that are not suitable for the grocery stores....go in the ketchup!!!!
ewwwww:(
tomatoes are icky.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Don't like them and they don't like me. Mutual hatred that works.
Posted by MLLASH on :
Let me tell you all about how fried green tomatoes saved me from starving myself to death after my awful "divorce" back in 1996.
Long story short, I was devestated, forced to move back home at age 28, and refused to eat, or leave my room except to go to work.
Then one day I smelled that smell wafting through the house.
It began a long love-affair with the delicious entree that shares its name with a wonderful Kathy Bates/Jessica Tandy film!
Posted by Tamper Lad on :
Victorians considered tomatoes to be poisonous.
Posted by Brainiac 5 on :
I think the most important question is this: How does LASH know what Hitler's crap tastes like?
Posted by Star Boy on :
Alexander Luthor's Afro IS the Anti-Tomato!!!
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
"Attack of the Killer Tomatoes"
No more needs to be said.
Posted by disaster boy on :
"Without tomatoes, there would be no "Reasons to fit wheels to a tomato" thread!"
---MLLASH
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
I would like to make it clear that I have nothing against tomatoes, per se, as long as they are put to use for non-eating purposes such as those that derive from fitting wheels to them.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Pasta sauce without tomatoes? That's just unnatural, man.
Thst site makes tofu dogs and soy-meats seem sensible in comparison.
The depths that zeolots will go to defend an undefendable cause... zheesh.
Posted by Caliente on :
MEL!!! Ohmigod... that was so awesome. Hee! I aboslutely it!! Posted by Reboot on :
Eh, nuts nuts, you're all crackers.
Posted by ActorLad on :
Crackers don't matter!!!
Posted by Outdoor Miner on :
Have we strolled into Don Imus territory?
Posted by MLLASH on :
quote:Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester: Post about your hatred of this most vile of vegetables here!
This proves my long-held theory that Eryk Davis Ester is some sort of fruit and veggies oracle!
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
quote:Originally posted by MLLASH:
quote:Originally posted by Eryk Davis Ester: Post about your hatred of this most vile of vegetables here!
This proves my long-held theory that Eryk Davis Ester is some sort of fruit and veggies oracle!
So his prediction about the asteroid crashing into Memphis can be ignored?
Posted by MLLASH on :
He's no Nura Nal when it comes to asteroid strike-zones.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Does that mean I should be worried up here in Boston?
Posted by MLLASH on :
Only if you've eaten tomatoes recently (and I *know* you haven't...)
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
You're not going to believe this, but I have a medical condition that means I have to seriously limit the amount of tomatos I can eat!*
Which means, I've kind of been drafted by the anti-tomatoes team after years of nuetrality!
*I'm actually serious, but I don't feel like getting into it. Posted by Arm Fall Off Boy on :
I never liked them, 'cause the texture is so disgusting-raw, boiled, stewed, you name it.
Posted by Fat Cramer on :
I would join an anti-grocery store tomatoes group, because they're so tasteless.
I must defend the home-grown tomato, however.
Does anyone remember the Flavr Savr Tomato? It was the first genetically modified food to be sold commercially. People said you could throw it against a wall like a tennis ball and it would not bread. It failed, indicating that, at least at that time, people still had some sense of good food.
Posted by Lard Lad on :
Hmmm...perhaps the very anti-tomatoans who started this thread are reponsible for this current public defamation of my beloved tomatoes!
I will be keeping a watchful eye on you! Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
I agree, Lardy. It's just the sort of trick we can expect of that ilk!
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
We don't need to resort to such trickery.
*hide airline ticket from Mexico and Texas*
Posted by Ram Boy on :
The Tomato Haters won't stop once they've destroyed the tomato's plump and juicy reputation. No, my fellow Tomato-Heads, they'll move on to the next vegetable that doesn't meet their exacting standards. Word on the farm is that the innocent and lovable zucchini is next on their "hit" list.
If we don't take a stand now, then pretty soon when we order salad at a restaurant all they'll bring us is a bowl of dressing! And technically that's just cold soup! Grrrr.
edit - yes, it's really a fruit, but until Kool-Aid makes it a drink flavor...
[ June 11, 2008, 03:16 PM: Message edited by: Ram Boy ]
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
AW! You could have had a V-8 tm!!!
Posted by Saturn Girl on :
Did anyone read the Kim Harrison books where the back story is that the world of the not so distant future was altered by the humble tomato. Basically in her books tomatoes suddenly started not just making people sick, but actually killing them. Soon a third of the entire population died off. Only those who had a genetic predisposition to magick survived and blossomed in health and in magickal skills. then the mortal (normal) human survivors of course banned and destroyed all tomatoes, plants and seeds and began a witch hunt (literally) and separated the cities into two zones, one normal and one for all the witches and such. Anyway, interesting that the tomato is villified yet again. Historically during the Middle Ages in Europe they were thought to be poisonious, and in Puritan America the Native peoples had a hard time convincing the pilgrims that tomatoes weren't bad for them.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
They were also known as Love Apples when they were thought to be poisonous. Lovers would eat them in a suicide pact.
Posted by antacidlass on :
I'm quite against tomatoes at this time. Supposedly all the tomatoes that have been brought into town are salmonellous (yes, its my word now!). Not knowing this, I ate at Taco Time, had extra tomatoes on my salad, and was disastrously ill! Blasted tomatoes!
Posted by Saturn Girl on :
At Taco Bell, or at Kentucky Fried Chicken, at Wendy's and most of the other 'fast food' places it's not the tomatoes that will get you but the monosodiumglutamate (msg).....
Posted by Fat Cramer on :
quote:Originally posted by Quislet, Esq.: They were also known as Love Apples when they were thought to be poisonous. Lovers would eat them in a suicide pact.
I wonder what they did when they didn't die? Or if they were eating them and thinking, "Wow! this is delicious! Now I have a reason for living..."
quote:Originally posted by antacidlass: I'm quite against tomatoes at this time. Supposedly all the tomatoes that have been brought into town are salmonellous (yes, its my word now!). Not knowing this, I ate at Taco Time, had extra tomatoes on my salad, and was disastrously ill! Blasted tomatoes!
If I got that sick from tomatoes, I'd be in the anti-tomato camp as well. I got food poisoning from something on a pizza once, and it was years before I could eat pizza again.
Of course, you can always hope that, having survived the salmonellousness of tomatoes, this proves you have the magic gene that Saturn Girl mentioned....
Posted by Ram Boy on :
quote:Originally posted by Quislet, Esq.: They were also known as Love Apples when they were thought to be poisonous. Lovers would eat them in a suicide pact.
I would imagine that after eating the Love Apples, the lovers would sit around for a few minutes being all dramaticy and then just burp.
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