{"id":11769,"date":"2012-05-30T03:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T08:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=11769"},"modified":"2012-05-30T03:00:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T08:00:59","slug":"its-not-you-its-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11769","title":{"rendered":"It's Not You. It's Me."},"content":{"rendered":"

Taster\u2019s Choice: Why I Hate Raw Tomatoes and You Don\u2019t<\/a><\/p>\n

All my life, I\u2019ve been vaguely ashamed of my dislike, probably because it was such a profound disappointment to my mother, and naturally I craved her approval.<\/p>\n

But no more! I just discovered that I am not alone in the blogosphere when it comes to hating raw tomatoes. Kylee Baumie of Living Green just came out of the closet as a \u201cmater hater.\u201d So did Steve Bender, a.k.a., the Grumpy Gardener, and Chris Tidrick, who blogs at From the Soil. They recently discovered their mutual dislike while at a Garden2Blog event in Arkansas. Like Chris, I, too, carefully remove all bits of tomato from food and leave it on the side of the plate. Solidarity!<\/p>\n

We mater-haters have to stick together. As Grumpy notes, \u201cTelling people you hate fresh tomatoes is like saying you hate giggling babies or that you loathe the prospect of world peace.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Count me in this group. We should have t-shirts made.<\/p>\n

I’m also sensitive to the bitterness in the foods Jennifer mentions, so it may be that I have that gene, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taster\u2019s Choice: Why I Hate Raw Tomatoes and You Don\u2019t All my life, I\u2019ve been vaguely ashamed of my dislike, probably because it was such a profound disappointment to my mother, and naturally I craved her approval. But no more! … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-other-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}