Tomatoes
Tomatoes. The very though of the hideous things is too much. Can the rest of humanity not taste what I taste? I'm convinced that it's some sort of coordinated joke at my expense by the rest of mankind. Do people REALLY eat the things? They're just so unutterably rancid I can't even think about it without becoming uneasy and (for some reason) indignant that this abomination exists.

You know those documentaries in which some westerner will go to the Amazonian jungle to live with a tribe…? Mr White-Eye always gets suckered into eating something wriggling and unspeakable for the amusement of the locals? I'm that man. Tomatoes are that squirming filth. The rest of the world are the smirking tribesmen.

I've even come up with a laughable "There's-a-chemical-in-them-that-only-some-people-can-taste-which-is-destroyed-by-heat" argument when challenged about the acceptability of tomato sauce, soup etc.

Length? Crikey, I'm new. Calibration is all wrong.
(yearsofpractice, Tue 15 Apr 2008, 12:52, 3 replies)

It's the seeds, they're all wrong
They're like tiny little snails of death.
( Bert Monkeysex is waiting for the mods to delete him, Tue 15 Apr 2008, 14:52, closed)

I'm like this
I remember trying a tomato when I was little, and covering the greengrocers in a layer of vomit...can't stand the buggers when they're fresh. But put them in anything, relish, soup, sauce, on top of pizzas, roasted...and they're bloody gorgeous!
( Mr.Ons knows you can hear him, Earthmen., Tue 15 Apr 2008, 16:05, closed)

^ This
Detestable little bastards in their natural state. But squished up and cooked and used as a base for sauces, pickles etc - bloody lovely.

I don't like cucumber particularly either, not in the UK anyway. But they taste totally different in Greece. And I love tsatziki.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 15 Apr 2008, 17:03, closed)