Let’s clarify something here that I didn’t think need clarifying.
Just because you like or dislike something doesn’t mean that you automatically feel the same way about that thing every single time it is placed in front of your cake hole.
I hate tomatoes. (Slight Digression: The Tomato Experiment? Ended – or paused, let’s say paused, that makes it seem more open-ended – after three tries. I just couldn’t do it after three, Internet.) But that does not mean that I hate tomato sauce. I mean, it needs to be totally 100% chunk free (we’re talking Hunt’s Tomato Sauce level smooth here), but if it is? I am more than happy to scarf down some pizza or chili or spaghetti with tomato-based sauce.
Nor does my tomato-hatred mean I hate ketchup, which bears no real resemblance to tomatoes ANYWAY. Nor do I hate salsa, as long as it’s smooth. (If it’s not smooth, I will dunk rather than scoop.)
On the other hand, I adore mushrooms. But my adoration extends only to cooked mushrooms. If you try to sneak a raw mushroom into my salad or crudités platter I will sneak it right back out.
I’m sure – SURE – I’m not the only person who feels this way. I mean, cooked broccoli and raw broccoli might as well be two completely different vegetables as far as I’m concerned.
Yet it seems that this PERFECTLY NORMAL hypocrisy is a total shock to some people.
But come on.
Saying that a person who likes tomatoes should, ipso facto, also like ketchup and also sundried tomatoes and also salsa is like saying that if you like showers, you must automatically like hot and cold showers equally. Or that if you like Taylor Kitsch in Friday Night Lights, you must therefore like him in Savages and John Carter. (I like looking at Taylor Kitsch, no matter what, that’s for sure.)
I can’t believe I’m having to spell this out but apparently it is not true for everyone. Apparently some people just like a food, in all its forms. It’s black and white for them: like or hate. Rather than having a billion shades of likeage grey.
Hardboiled eggs are not the same as eggs over easy are not the same as scrambled eggs.
Right on sista! When I could still eat, semi-normally (now, I’m 99% tube fed & never ate normally even when I ate), I was the same way! A tomato? Not a chance in HEXX! My dad tried to pay my brother & me $150 (each) to eat a small slice of tomato! He put $150 in front of both of us & well, he put it back in his pocket; neither one of us could get it passed our lips after, forever (picture the commercial of the child & the table whose Mom said, “You can’t leave the table until you eat your vegetables” & there he still sits as an old man)! Tomato sauce, ketchup, salsa, sure! My brother even drank Bloody Mary’s (virgin & loaded)! And mushrooms???? A 2 the MEN for both of us! Mushrooms, oh how I love them & miss being able to eat them (cooked, grilled bring em on)! RAW, I think; dirty, smelly feet! I can go on w/ examples forever! I, like you, don’t understand the people who don’t understand us! Happy Monday!
Its all about texture. I totally get that. I have a friend who is the exact same way about tomatoes. I have to strain the spaghetti sauce for him whenever he comes over for homemade sauce.
Some people do love a food in all of it’s forms, but that is pretty rare in my experience. I hate most vegetables raw. I don’t like when they are crunchy. A raw carrot is not passing my lips. I hate when they shred them on my salad because then I have to either take the effort to pick them out, struggle to eat around them, or just not eat the damn thing.
I have just learned to eat raw mushrooms. They have to be very thin so as not to have too much texture. I also have to actively tell myself that I like how they taste even raw. Sometimes it doesn’t work. Same with raw peppers.
Cooking a food changes it almost completely so it makes sense that you might not like it in its new form. I get it!
Agreed. I like cooked broccoli but not raw. Raw carrots but not cooked. It’s a texture thing. Haters gonna hate.
I totally agree. In fact, I find bananas to be fabulous in one state of ripeness and abhorrent a day later.
I 100% agree.
I was almost going to watch John Carter just for Taylor Kitsch, but was warned off by just about everyone/every review ever. I started rewatching FNL from the beginning a while ago and … I’m scared he’s actually not that great an actor. Or maybe he should just stick to Riggins-esque roles.
To be fair, though, from what I hear of John Carter it maybe wasn’t the best role.
Good to see you back
I dunk for chunky too! Unless its fresh salsa with only chunks I like.. Like peppers. Hi fellow all star.
I eat an egg almost every morning for breakfast. I love eggs! And yet if you give me a COLD egg, or even a regular-temperature hard-boiled egg, chopped up and almost hidden in what would otherwise have been a lovely tuna melt, I will be too traumatized to ever eat in your restaurant again. So. I understand.
I can’t even believe there is a question with someone regarding this. Clearly, you are right. 100%