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25 Jul 2020, 11:51 am

Are you scared of tomatoes?



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25 Jul 2020, 12:02 pm

Physically, no.
Emotionally, no.
Mentally, no.
Visually, no.
Tactile, no.
Olfactory, no.

Gustatorial, yes. :eew:


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25 Jul 2020, 12:08 pm

you actively dislike eating tomatoes?

I guess that it takes all kinds.



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25 Jul 2020, 12:13 pm

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25 Jul 2020, 12:37 pm

I was, but a rigorous course of graded exposure therapy dealt with that. I started by looking at pictures of tomatoes, then seeing how long I could stand being in the room with a caged tomato. We progressed to handling a tame tomato, first with gloves on, then without. Before I knew it, I was out swimming with wild tomatoes- even experienced tomatologists can find that nervewracking, as you just never know how the tomato is going to respond to your presence.


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25 Jul 2020, 12:41 pm

Atttack of the Killer Tomatoes!


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25 Jul 2020, 12:46 pm

Only when they’re turned into ketchup, then I want them as far away from me as possible.


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25 Jul 2020, 12:47 pm

PhosphorusDecree wrote:
I was, but a rigorous course of graded exposure therapy dealt with that. I started by looking at pictures of tomatoes, then seeing how long I could stand being in the room with a caged tomato. We progressed to handling a tame tomato, first with gloves on, then without. Before I knew it, I was out swimming with wild tomatoes- even experienced tomatologists can find that nervewracking, as you just never know how the tomato is going to respond to your presence.


I am proud of you!

But..even so. NEVER, EVER, get between a mother tomato plant, and it's baby!



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25 Jul 2020, 12:54 pm

If they get out of hand I make sauce out of them.


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25 Jul 2020, 1:00 pm

An early young George Clooney:



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25 Jul 2020, 1:05 pm

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25 Jul 2020, 1:12 pm

When I was really young I once saw something from a movie or something on TV where big round orange objects were floating through the air making weird alien noises, and I think they were attacking people. I thought they were pumpkins but they might have been The Killer Tomatoes. All I know is that it made me a little scared of pumpkins for a while, and they weren't even carved into jack o lanterns.

Maybe they were UFO's - Unidentified Flying Oranges! :alien:

Anyway, I'm not really scared of tomatoes. I don't really like tomatoes, except for those little tiny ones that are sweet tasting that you can put in salads. And I like spaghetti sauce, which is made from tomatoes. But other than that I don't care for tomatoes but I'm tomatoes.

I once saw clips from a cartoon version of Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. There was a tomato that would sneeze and then turn into a girl wearing red clothes whenever this boy poured pepper on it. It was weird. But not scary.



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25 Jul 2020, 1:19 pm

I first read it as "are you scared of tornadoes?"

No, I would not be scared of a tornado, it is mother earth in motion, it would be interesting sight to see. Even if I was swept up into the tornado, it would be an adventure, I'd land at the other end of the clouds. Then likely die... but death is the only thing curtain in life and really not something to fear, when we die we live in complete internal and external nothingness.

Tomatoes are one of my favourite food, along side chillies.

A little fact: tomatoes are the same family of tobacco and contain small amounts of nicotine in them, as do potatoes, so rather, I am addicted to tomatoes.


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25 Jul 2020, 1:42 pm

nadroJ wrote:
I first read it as "are you scared of tornadoes?"

No, I would not be scared of a tornado, it is mother earth in motion, it would be interesting sight to see. Even if I was swept up into the tornado, it would be an adventure, I'd land at the other end of the clouds. Then likely die... but death is the only thing curtain in life and really not something to fear, when we die we live in complete internal and external nothingness.

Tomatoes are one of my favourite food, along side chillies.

A little fact: tomatoes are the same family of tobacco and contain small amounts of nicotine in them, as do potatoes, so rather, I am addicted to tomatoes.


I started the tread BECAUSE there is already a thread entitled "are you scared of tornados", and kept misreading it as "tomatoes". :D

All three of those crops were domesticated in the New World by the Indians. And were brought to the world by "the Columbian exchange" of plants and animals that occurred after the discovery of America. Didnt realize that they were related botanically as well as geographically.



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25 Jul 2020, 2:23 pm

I thought you might be talking about Dr Steven Gundry and his quack ideas about "plants out to get us" including TOMATOES :roll:. How to Make Tomatoes Safer To Eat

I love tomatoes. I grew some Heirloom Tomatoes this year without knowing anything about what they are like. I got a peach orange colored fruit with a very mild, low acid taste :cherry:.


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25 Jul 2020, 2:28 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
Are you scared of tomatoes?


Hahaha! You beat me to it! I was going to do what you have just done!


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