Hold the tomato

[Amerigo Vespucci]

I admit it, the stories are getting to me. I just ordered a small #16 at Togo's ("The Italian") and asked them to hold the tomatoes. How about you? Can a BLT be a BLT without the "T?"

[Oeditpus Rex]

1. Tomatoes were eee-vill fucking things

long before they were infested with innards-eatin' virii.

:puke:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. As well as being a member of the deadly nightshade family

I'm guessing that you have THIS site bookmarked:



http://www.tomatoesareevil.com/tomatohistory.htm

"As the tomato arrived in Europe the plant became associated with poisonous members of the Solanceae family, specifically henbane, mandrake and deadly nightshade, to which it bore more than a passing resemblance.
Deadly nightshade is a poisonous plant which has been used as both a hallucinogenic drug and a beauty aid in different parts of Europe. The Latin name "belladonna" means beautiful woman, in the medieval courts of Europe ladies would apply a few drops of nightshade extract to their eyes to dilate their pupils, a look considered most fashionable at the time.
The hallucinogenic properties of the plant, comprised of visions and the sense of flying. This most led to the association of the nightshade family with witchcraft.
German folklore claims that witches used plants like mandrake and nightshade to summon werewolves, a practice known as lycanthropy. The common German name for tomatoes translates to "wolf peach", and because of this it was universally avoided. In the 18th century the tomato species was named Lycopersicon esculentum, which literally means, "edible wolf peach".
Despite it's association with Witches and the Black Arts, early efforts to peddle the tomato were not highly successful. Even in one of America's towns most associated with Witchcraft - the hamlet of Salem, Massachusetts a painter hoping to make a little extra money selling the fruit had difficulty even convincing people to taste the red fruit."

:rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. Nope

I just have a rule: Any foodstuff that makes me wanna puke when it's thrown against a wall is not edible.

[grannylib]

4. Tomatoes are ishy.

:puke:

[edbermac]

5. What about ketchup?

:shrug:

[Rambis]

6. Right now

we can't get tomato on sandwiches in Iowa City Iowa because of a salmonella outbreak- my sub shop will let me know when all is clear. I like the MLT mutton lettuce and tomato sandwiches when the mutton is nice and lean.