1y ago

What is something you don't like, that you wish you did like? and why

Could be as trivial as a type of food, a TV show, or something more serious.

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Tomatoes.
Tomatoes are in so many recipes, they're healthy, supposedly can even make good snacks.
ABSOLUTELY disgusting. Flavor, texture, smell, all of the above are just repugnant. I hate that's the case.
- When you cut a tomato and that semi-slimy juice pours out along with pits - DISGUSTING!
  
  Ye, good tomatoes are not supposed to have a lot of that jelly stuff. They have more flesh per tomato, and the jelly stuff inside isn't as slimy. Where I live it's not difficult at all to get my hands on good (and cheap) tomatoes, but I also spent some time in other regions where the tomato situation was dire indeed.
  
  Here they call the good ones coração de boi - they are just flesh, no slime. I eat them raw as salad and they are delicious. Other tomatoes only cooked into nothing in a sauce.
- The trick is narrowing down what is so repugnant. I also can’t stand tomatoes, even preparing them. They feel like some sci-fi horror fleshy grenade thing about to explode and cover us all, and the smell is just rotten food
  But realistically for me it’s the texture. I’m fine with tomatoes being gross because I can enjoy tomato juice, tomato sauce, marinara, etc. I get all the benefits and someone else deals with the gross parts. Enough cooking and adding spices, and they can add a lot to a meal
  
  Enough cooking and adding spices, and they can add a lot to a meal
  Lets be honest, Indian butter chicken is why I don't just outright say I'm allergic to them because that is delicious and apparently tomatoes are a main ingredient with the sauce.
  The texture is a high part, I'll always remember "horror fleshy grenade" about them now, but my dad who hates tomatoes as well found heirloom grape tomatoes and eats them just straight. Okay, I'll try them. Nope... that I don't know how to describe other than tomato taste just was there and awful.
  I can eat marinara and tomato sauce, but if I can have an alternative 10/10 I'll pick something else, ketchup I don't really like, and if it's spicy enough I enjoy salsa as long as it's not chunky, but that's because I find salsa is like butter chicken, the tomato taste isn't there, just a vehicle for the spices.
  But seriously, I'm the guy when everyone is ordering a pizza I know I'll be able to eat it but I'll be "meh" unless there's a white sauce pizza.
  
  Indian butter chicken for the win! Reminds me that I need to pick up spices for it. I’ve tried jarred sauce and it’s not the same as freshly prepared restaurant food. However I haven’t made it from scratch yet because that’s a lot of spices I wouldn’t normally use and may not use up

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