Legion World Forums LEGION OUTPOST Mission Monitor Board Every 10 Years Forum The Anti-Tomatoes Thread!

Have we strolled into Don Imus territory?

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?

He's no Nura Nal when it comes to asteroid strike-zones.

Does that mean I should be worried up here in Boston?

Only if you've eaten tomatoes recently (and I *know* you haven't...)

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.

I never liked them, 'cause the texture is so disgusting-raw, boiled, stewed, you name it.

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.

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!

I agree, Lardy. It's just the sort of trick we can expect of that ilk!

We don't need to resort to such trickery.

*hide airline ticket from Mexico and Texas*

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...

AW! You could have had a V-8 <span style="font-size: 7px;">tm</span>!!!

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.

They were also known as Love Apples when they were thought to be poisonous. Lovers would eat them in a suicide pact.

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!

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).....

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..."

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....

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.

Ahh, sweet love!

And still the tomato menace continues

Tainted tomato outbreak hits Mass.

Call me when it starts raining tomatoes.

For the record, the term "fruit" is actually ambiguous. It can name either a biological category or a culinary category. Tomatoes are biological fruits, but not culinary fruits.

In China tomatoes are considered culinary fruits. I have seen people eat tomatoes like apples. They also taste good when fried with scrambled eggs.

Tomatoes with a little salt are delish.

I normally hate salt, but I like a little bit on tomatoes, hard-boiled eggs and cottage cheese.

Like most vege-fruit-ables, cooking tomatoes completely ruins them. Raw or nothing, baby!