I hate you!

[Kogarashi]

It's mostly his eyes reacting,

I completely sympathize. My sensitivity to cutting onions has gone up since I stopped wearing contact lenses (Hubby and I have found that for us, at least, wearing contacts helps with the sting). The type of onion does definitely have an effect, though, as well as refrigeration. There are days I can cut several onions and not react at all, and others where the first cut has me setting the knife down because my eyes just won't stay open.

Yet for all other fruit I much prefer fresh. In fact I thought I hated pineapple for years because I only had canned and it has an odd texture.

With the exception of the pineapple, YES. I do like canned pineapple about equally with fresh.

[wolfie]

Can't have bananas, as I'm allergic.

Sounds like $Diety is monkeying with your metabolism.

[dalesys]

Sounds like $Diety is monkeying with your metabolism.

$Diety | Murphy

Universe operations & maintenance have been outsourced...

Which explains a lot.

[WishfulSpirit]

I guess I'm not up on my food trends. Had no idea sweet spuds and red velvet were trending. No thanks on red velvet. But I do like sweet potatoes.

[BeeMused]

I deeply detest raw tomatoes, it's the taste and the texture --> YUCK. I like them cooked, though, as a soup or sauce.
I'm always willing to try out new foods, but tomatoes are off the table.

[Nunavut Pants]

Heh, that's my wife. Hates raw tomatoes. Loves ketchup, various tomato-based sauces (pizza, pasta, etc.), and even salsa.

[notalwaysright]

I guess I'm not up on my food trends. Had no idea sweet spuds and red velvet were trending. No thanks on red velvet. But I do like sweet potatoes.

So far this week (Tuesday) we have had red velvet items in the break room twice. Cake one day and cookies another. I generally think of them as "food dyed red."

I think the tomato thing is pretty common, Beemused. I'm the exact same as you. Though every few years I will try some tomatoes, just to see. My tastes have changed drastically since childhood, so I'm always hopeful that I will like them. As a kid I didn't even like red sauce, and now I do. I didn't like mustard, and now I looove it. Same with ginger and a lot of Thai and Indian food which has coconut and/or lemongrass. Used to hate now love. So maybe someday I will like everything.

[Racket_Man]

I deeply detest raw tomatoes, it's the taste and the texture --> YUCK. I like them cooked, though, as a soup or sauce.
I'm always willing to try out new foods, but tomatoes are off the table.

I think this short bit from the late George Carlin sums it up best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou_94cHnHBo

[MoonCat]

Bitter melon. I thought it was celery and picked it up for my lunch while working at a buffet restaurant, but I was so wrong.

Also, Campbell's vegetable soup. Yuck! There was just something in it that made a can of it taste sour.

But now I stick with Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup. Yum!

OMG Campbell's Veg soup is probably my second favorite food in the world (after spaghetti!) I don't eat it much anymore because too many carbs, but I still love it. It's one of the things I ate often when I was a kid, now it's almost comfort food
We don't eat processed stuff much anymore.

[WishfulSpirit]

No accounting for taste, but I still go every time someone says they don't like fresh tomatoes. I wait all year for the farmer's markets to get the ones that actually taste like something. A real, vine-ripe tomato has to be one of my absolute favorite foods. I think I like them even more than Colorado Palisade peaches. Maybe it's just that the store-bought ones when they're not in season taste a lot like cardboard? I have to roast them or something to get them to have some flavor.

[Nunavut Pants]

I used to call the winter tomatoes we would get in the midwest "mashed-potato tomatoes". Because that was roughly what they tasted like and their texture was--red-tinted mashed potatoes.

I had some fresh Roma tomatoes my mom was growing (many years later, not in the midwest, and not in winter!) and they were just amazing... "Oh, this is what a tomato actually tastes like!!"

[HotelMinion]

I think this short bit from the late George Carlin sums it up best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou_94cHnHBo

Lolz even though I love raw ripe tomatoes and cooked tomatoes that was so funny "oooolllooough!"

No accounting for taste, but I still go every time someone says they don't like fresh tomatoes. I wait all year for the farmer's markets to get the ones that actually taste like something. A real, vine-ripe tomato has to be one of my absolute favorite foods. I think I like them even more than Colorado Palisade peaches. Maybe it's just that the store-bought ones when they're not in season taste a lot like cardboard? I have to roast them or something to get them to have some flavor.

Ikr? I could eat them till I pop. They have to be "perfect" though...no bruises, no holes, ripe and red. Those with those things taste nasty. My bro once ate one with a worm in it and it put him off for years. Still everyone's got their taste.

The only fruit that I've tried and don't really like is papaya. My parents made me drink a smoothie of it when I was young and I gagged. I asked what it was and thought they said Popeye. Lol

[Thana]

I don't like roasted edamame. I dunno what the roasting process does to edamame but it makes it feel rubbery and extra dry to me. I love fresh edamame and steamed edamame....but not roasted.

Tomatoes... I love eating them but unless I have a tomato slicer... I hate prepping them. I once had to prep 8 pans of tomatoes....and our tomato slicer was busted...which meant I had to slice as evenly as I could, 64 effing tomatoes by hand. Greatly improved my knife skills...but forever made tomatoes my enemy.

[WishfulSpirit]

A serrated knife helps cut tomatoes evenly Thana. Gets through the skin.

[wolfie]

If a regular knife won't cut a tomato properly, it's not sharp enough.