tomatoes..
@chicksdigscars (5483)
September 21, 2011 8:07am CST
Tomatoes. Or tomatos. However you like it spelt.
What is the deal with tomatoes? They are everywhere. I mean don’t get my wrong, I’m partial to a sundried, or a little ketchup.. and a nice spicy tomato spaghetti sauce. But that’s, I think, where it ends. Oh well maybe some tomato soup too.
But why, oh why, OH WHY, must deli’s and shops insist on sticking these manky, moisture creating THINGS into all sandwiches and baguettes? Why? I mean if it say’s chicken salad, I can safely assume there is a tomato or two in it. And if it says “ham, cheese and tomato” clearly the same applies.. but it’s when they are HIDDEN!!
I just had, a southern fried chicken wrap, from good old Tesco express for all those UK and Irish ones out there. Southern Fried chicken wrap with a red pepper mayo. Sounds lovely? Yes. It did. that was until after 4 bites I realised the whole thing was laced with tomato! Making it soggy and horrible!
And not even a big honk of tomato that I could have easily removed? No! finely chopped up crappy little bits of tomato.
I was sorely disappointed.
So what do you think about this? And tomatoes in general if you fancy that for a topic haha.
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8 responses
@wmraul (2552)
• Bucharest, Romania
21 Sep 11
Geee .. To a point, I more than agree with you.
I mean I also do not think tomatos slices should not be in any sandwiches, no matter the topping or the content.
Tomato slices are quickly to fade / wither and specially after they were cold and start warming back, have a horrible taste which will ruin the sandwich flavor.
But FRESH tomatos and some other vegetable salad .. yummi yummi !
Yes, I talk about made-and-eat, not made-and-save-it in fridge for later use.
@chicksdigscars (5483)
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21 Sep 11
if it was a fresh sandwich, that i ordered and someone made infront of me, and i was partial to tomatoes.. then ok.
but adding them into pre-packed sandwiches where they just go.. manky.. is not good :(
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@wmraul (2552)
• Bucharest, Romania
21 Sep 11
Exactly.
In fact almost nothing keep it's original taste once packed and sitting in a pile ..
Butter become yellow, sausages become darker on edges (as most of the meat also), green salad become wither, onion become soft and elastic ..
In fact I avoid to eat almost anything is pre-packed.
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@chicksdigscars (5483)
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22 Sep 11
as do i generally.. but this was a needs must day, and it looked lovely.. and because it was only chicken with mayo in a wrap i thought.. what could possibly be withered and horrible in that.. boy was i wrong haha!!
@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
21 Sep 11
Ironically, when I was younger, I hated tomatoes, but as I get older, I find I really like them. I still can't eat them plain, unless it is a yellow pear tomato, but I love a good tomato on my salad, cheeseburger, chili, tacos. etc...
As for you, I wonder if you can order this chicken wrap without tomato? Most restaurants will do this if you ask them to.
@carmelanirel (20942)
• United States
22 Sep 11
Ugh, yeah if it was prepackaged, then you're stuck with the tomatoes I's afraid..But the wrap sounds delicious, I am staving right now..
@chicksdigscars (5483)
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22 Sep 11
i actually think i liked them more when i was older and i now have some sort of hatred for them lol!
it was a prepacked wrap :( i should have known better lol! but it didn't say southern fried chicken and tomato so i thought i was in the clear :( lol.. that'll teach me!
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@chicksdigscars (5483)
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26 Sep 11
i know so am i.. everytime i come back to this discussion i keep thinking.. oh sod the tomatoes i'd love one haha!
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@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
8 Nov 11
I love tomatoes, but not the plastic ones you buy at supermarkets. I´m sure those are the ones you have tasted. I love the tomatoes that get ripe in the plant, that you pick and eat as a fruit, that are clean of pesticides and sweet.
I like tomatoes (my kind) in many ways and dishes. Raw and cooked, fried and made into sauces and chutneys, green and ripe. I´m looking forward for the tomatoes this year. YUMMY!!!
@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
11 Nov 11
I don´t buy tomatoes except for some occations when I buy a couple to add colour (not flavour as they don´t have any). But I love my home grown tomatoes and eat them raw, in soups, main dishes of all kinds and freeze sauces and plain cooked paste to make soups during the year. I also make some jam and now I have learnt to use the green tomatoes
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.@chicksdigscars (5483)
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9 Nov 11
well now i will agree with you there! because despite my loathe of tomatoes, my dad used to have a green-house where he grew his own little cherry tomatoes, and i used to eat those like little sweets :)
@chiwasaki (4695)
• Philippines
22 Sep 11
Tomato is not a vegetable but a fruit. I just recently learned that after all of these years 
. I love eating tomatoes and also tomato juice. And discussion about tomatoes is quite interesting.
In most sandwiches that I've eaten, tomatoes are always present. Tomatoes motto "Attendance is a must" haha.
. I love eating tomatoes and also tomato juice. And discussion about tomatoes is quite interesting.
In most sandwiches that I've eaten, tomatoes are always present. Tomatoes motto "Attendance is a must" haha.
@chicksdigscars (5483)
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22 Sep 11
oh my god you're right! a tomato is a fruit and not a vegetable lol! rookie mistake haha!! .. i actually like tomato juice in a bloody mary haha!! but maybe thats just the vodka talking haha!
@oldchem1 (8132)
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22 Sep 11
This is one of the reasons that I prefer to get my sandwiches from a deli or Subway then you can choose exactly what you want on it! I don't mind tomatoes on sandwiches myself, but not when they've stood around for a day or so and made everything else go soggy!! My main complaint with pre packed sandwiches is the insistence to put mayonnaise on almost everyone! As I follow a low fat diet I find this really annoying - NO ONE seem to be able to offer just tuna or prawns on their own, the're always laced with oodles of fat ridden mayonnaise - the same goes with jacket potatoes!!
@chicksdigscars (5483)
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22 Sep 11
oh i don't share your hatred because i am a mayo queen haha i adore mayo on everythingg!!!!!!! :) :)
subway are amazing.. because even the days i maybe do fancy a tomato in my sandwich, i know they are lovely and fresh.. and subway offer a low fat mayo too :)
@thatgirl13 (7294)
• South Korea
22 Sep 11
I don't like tomatoes. Cooked ones are ok but there's something about the smell of raw tomatoes that I don't like 
and I don't like the taste of raw tomatoes too!!
and I don't like the taste of raw tomatoes too!! @chicksdigscars (5483)
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22 Sep 11
see, i like cooked tomato's.. if you saute them in a little oil and fry them with some garlic they are great with crusty bread.. but it's when they are raw that i can't stand them either!
@koperty3 (1876)
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21 Sep 11
Well I know many ways to use tomatoes. I use them in salads, in souse, soup, baked chicken, pizza, snacks. I can eat them just without anything. It seams that you don't like them very much. Some of them tatse like wet paper and that is why before I buy them in Asda for example I have to smell them. If they smell ( Like fresh tomatoes should smell) then I buy them. If they don't have smell I don't. ( I know that I'm weird so don't tell me this 
). If you don't like them ask staff to don't put it in your sandwiches.
). If you don't like them ask staff to don't put it in your sandwiches.@chicksdigscars (5483)
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22 Sep 11
see this was in tescos.. so it was a prepacked sanwich. usually when i am buying a sandwich and getting it made, i ask them not to put it in it.
and i dont usually buy pre-packed sandwiches but i saw the guy putting them out that morning so i knew they were quite fresh AND i didn't realise they had tomatoes in them, or matos as i call them haha :)
