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Eating tomatoes with just feta cheese and olives is something else.
Edit: I ment as they are, not a salad! From where I come(wink wink check profile), we do it a lot.
It's a completely reasonable snack! Lol
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
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.
I'm blown away when people say aniseed is similar to licorice. Aniseed is good, licorice is gross.
Nonono, aniseed is amazing; licorice is not. If you mix them you spoil the aniseed of course...
Anyway I love butter, I like yogurt and fish and I'm ambivalent about vinegar, I like it on some things more than others.
I can't think of any other flavors I don't like, I certainly have preferences but I can tolerate most foods I'm not that much into. Only exceptions would be avocado and pineapple which are painful to digest, but their taste is fine.
Red or black?
Let's go for both. Are they too different for you? I like aniseed but not licorice. They taste very different to me and I can't recall enjoying anything labeled as licorice, although where I grew up I didn't have that distinction in color or name for it.
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'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?
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.
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!
Yuck! I hate olives. ;)
Black or green?
Both. I don't like bitter foods, and they're both bitter to me.
Aaaaaa I have very specific use cases for feta, but no thank you by itself. Or in most things.
Tomatoes or olives alone… I’m with ya 100%.