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by: anonymousSaturday | October 17, 1998 00:00 ESTarchive

Tomatoes are the most revolting thing ever grown. They are alright if you smash them and cook them until there is no longer any way of knowing it was a tomato. eg pizza or spaghetti sauce. Anyone who eats tomatoes with salt raw has rocks in their head and aren't very bright anyway. This is just my personal opinion. Very refreshing web site.

by: anonymousThursday | October 15, 1998 15:23 ESTarchive

I hate tomatoes too. But I hate oranges, apples, cucumbers, bananas...every GREEN things. I EAT MEAT. ONLY MEAT. KILL ALL GREEN FOOD. Greetings from Santander (SPAIN). <BR>Afro

by: anonymousTuesday | October 13, 1998 23:52 ESTarchive

This is from the Columbia Encyclopedia: "Though the fruit was described as a salad ingredient before 1600, it was commonly regarded as poisonous, and only within the last century has it become recognized as a valuable food. Indeed, all parts of the plant but the fruit are toxic." <BR>Dan

by: anonymousTuesday | October 13, 1998 13:51 ESTarchive

Dear miserable human being, you do not really enjoy the life by simply rejecting a tomato salad dressed with olive oil, lemon juice and a pinch of thyme. So sorry for you. <BR>Meric Caliskan

by: anonymousFriday | October 9, 1998 20:00 ESTarchive

I also hate tomatoes as much as you do! There was this one time when I went to this restaurant and accidentally BIT into one. Now I don't go there anymore cause of that. I think someone should also make an anti-Onion site. That would really be cool.

by: anonymousThursday | October 8, 1998 11:34 ESTarchive

It is my firm belief that the City of Leamington, Ontario, Canada is the base of operations for one of the largest conspiracies man has known. This city is the tomato capital of Canada if not the world. Their entire existence revolves around the tomato. They have a huge tomato in the center of town where they lure unsuspecting tourists and passers by, to dole out there tomato propaganda. Once a year they have a tomato festival to celebrate the birth and continued prosperity of this demonic fruit. Lastly, they process tomatoes and make many products such as ketchup and soups for world distribution to spread this blight. I ask you, what kind of monsters are these people!? If you ever come to this part of the globe I BEG you, please avoid entering Leamington. I have been there several times and barely escaped with my life and my sanity. Thankfully I lived to tell the tale. Please anyone who reads this head my WARNING!!!!! <BR>TBOW

by: anonymousTuesday | October 6, 1998 11:31 ESTarchive

HA HA HA, i'm laughing out loud, I just love your site. I too, HATE tomatoes!! YUCK!!!! <BR>Denise

by: anonymousMonday | October 5, 1998 16:57 ESTarchive

Finally, tomato haters of the world have a voice. The last time I had a tomato I gagged and I'm quite sure if I hadn't spit it out I'd be dead by now. The odour simply makes me feel like vomiting. This web site is so true!!!

by: anonymousMonday | October 5, 1998 11:11 ESTarchive

Oh man! I hate tomatoes. I can't even cut them up. I can eat ketchup, spaghetti sauce and pizza, but raw tomatoes make me wretch! Your site is a hoot!

by: anonymousFriday | October 2, 1998 13:16 ESTarchive

You're fucked up. Without tomatoes there's no pizza, pasta, ketchup, V8, tomato sauce, no BLT's. Where would Italian food be without the wonderful tomato. What you need is a fuckin' shrink. You fuckin' tomato freak. You probably look like a tomato. Did your parents molest you with tomatoes??? And what about Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. You're Fucked. Yours truly, Tom A. Towe & All the Tomato lovers of the world & All the Italians of the world (And Greeks, Mexicans, Spanish ...) PS Don't be surprised if your eye pops. PSS What about the forestry industry in New Mexico?????(You can email this weirdo by clicking here!)

by: anonymousFriday | October 2, 1998 11:31 ESTarchive

You are obviously the devil incarnate. Worse yet, you are a TWIT. Any tomato red blooded American (or Italian) knows tomatoes were sent to us, directly from God, to make summer an even more enjoyable season of the year. If you assume that most of your meager 117 hits on this sinful website are tomato haters, it becomes obvious that you have little support for your misguided opinion. I shall pray for your and your fellow TWITS. Remember, God will forgive if you seek his forgiveness and redemption. <BR>Spedeeray (a tomato lover)

by: anonymousWednesday | September 16, 1998 13:05 ESTarchive

Tomatoes are the evil fruit. ADAM and EVE did not get thrown out of the Garden of Eden because of a red apple. It was a red-ripe tomato. That is why tomatoes are acidic and apples are not! The Vatican is suppressing this fact, because the Vatican is in Italy, and Italians use tomatoes as a common food. They do not use apples at every meal. It's nothing but a church cover-up. Tomatoes are the culprit here. Bad fruit! Bad!

by: anonymousMonday | September 14, 1998 11:53 ESTarchive

Dear Tomato hater, <BR>I found this page when I started to write an article about eating habits - not anything connected with science or cooking for housewives. I just had to make an article about "crazy eaters" or as you wish - alternative people. I have NEVER in my life met a tomato-hater. I do not believe that we have somehow different tomatoes here in Estonia, so it seems weird that so far I haven't met a real tomato-hater. I can understand your disgust of tomatoes, for they might really seem to be a real and mistake of the nature. But to me the worst thing is caviar - how on earth someone can tell it's delicious? Lucky me - this crap usually costs a lot so they do not put it everywhere. But tomatoes I like. Maybe I have a little pervert in me? Anyway - I support you tomato-hating by adding the link of your site to my article which will be printed in Estonian street-magazine KesKus in October, 1998. I hope that all the Estonian tomato haters will soon join you. <BR>Best regards,

by: anonymousSaturday | September 12, 1998 17:55 ESTarchive

I Hate tomatoes; they are the grossest thing since... well... I can't think of anything as nasty and putrid. I hope the tomato population becomes extinct.

by: anonymousTuesday | September 1, 1998 08:07 ESTarchive

Hey, I checked out your site again. While I still hold the technical and artistic merit in high regard, I'm with the Aztecs. I love tomatoes. I won't cram them down the gullet of tomato haters, or for that matter even make a big case about it. If the movement was successful and tomatoes and all of their by-products disappeared from the store shelves, I'd simply resort to growing small patches in the woods. (Small patches are necessary to avoid satellite detection.) It might actually turn out to be a good thing since in such an environment I could ring up some decent jingle as a small time supplier to the Tomato black market that would certainly arise. Who knows, if I got far enough ahead to afford a decent mouthpiece, I could even go big time pushing processed Tomatoes in ever larger regions. At that point you have to drop the fresh stuff and leave the nickel and dime to the local suppliers. Once you're big enough to hire local Tomato pushers the law can never catch up. Sure they might know who I am and what I'm doing. They might even catch me at it now and then. So what. Once you're big the fines can't come close to the profit. Even if I have to do a little time I can still run the syndicate from the joint. One excellent point about your Web site and this everyone (Tomato hater and lovers alike) agrees on is Jo is a babe. We want more JO!! How about a Jo shot of the month to keep us all coming back? In the meantime good luck on the crusade. I'd love the challenge of setting up the Tomato Syndicate. <BR>Walt

by: anonymousMonday | August 31, 1998 18:29 ESTarchive

I HATE THEM TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! blach!!!!!!!

by: anonymousTuesday | August 25, 1998 03:23 ESTarchive

You make me check a website daily! You could at least update the letters. What a loser I am checking a site daily... about... TOMATOES ...and no new letters. Damn it, you wanna waste eveyone's time on this crap at least maintain your website. I tried tomatoes but I didn't inhale!!!!! <BR>Truly yours, Roscor (...in a super marinara sauce!)

by: anonymousWednesday | August 5, 1998 17:21 ESTarchive

Hiya! Tomatoes ruined my life! OMG! I was born into a Tomato loving family & was forced to choke down these monsters! Then when I hit the ripe old age of 13. I took a stand and admitted my loathing of tomatoes! My family was enraged by my statement that they sent me to a children's home where I could receive immediate help! They still haven't took me back but I live in a different state with my new family who has a fetish of cucumbers which is another evil being of this world! What am I to do? My life will never be the same! pleeeeeease believe me this is not a joke ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. My life was ruined by those infamous tomatoes. And now I live with a cucumber obsessed family.

by: anonymousTuesday | August 4, 1998 17:19 ESTarchive

I started off little, you know a little pizza sauce, some salsa with my chips. Then like a madman I tried Ragu. Well one thing led to another and now I'm too far gone. Farmers markets, growing my own, even SLOPPY JOES!! What can i do? There in everything! I'm drinking V-8 juice right now! Oh sure I order the grilled cheese but it's the tomato soup I want. I'm so ashamed! Please help. Gotta go now gespacho is chilling.

by: anonymousFriday | July 31, 1998 14:30 ESTarchive

I agree with your views on tomatoes, but i will not sit here and listen to you badmouth a fine condiment like ketchup!! How dare you! Don't you know that ketchup is what separates us from the inferior countries. Why its more americanthan apple pie! The reason mexican food sucks is NO KETCHUP! how in the hell are you gonna eat meat loaf (also american) without ketchup! Or maybe you don't like meat loaf either you commie bastard!(You can email this weirdo by clicking here!)