100 simple things we take for granted: #10 Tomatoes
#10 Tomatoes
The world can be divided into two types of people by many things and one of those is tomatoes. Weird, I know, but I’m pretty sure it is the only fruit that can unite people in a unified voice of hatred which could rival the epic heights of even The Twilight Saga hate club. I was expressing my hatred at dinner one day when my sister, a fellow tomato hater said wisely, “Hey don’t knock tomatoes, how would you make pasta sauce.” And so I started thinking, she was right!!
Tomatoes are important!!
1.They are used in many pasta sauces, including my favorite, spaghetti bolognese.
2.They are essential in Italian cuisine, a fail safe dinner choice to impress women, either making it yourself or dining out.
3.They are an important ingredient in Bloody Mary’s (although personally I think this is a waste of good vodka)
4. They are used to make REAL tomato sauce, which is a million trillion times better than ketchup.
5.They are very like people, they come in different colors, shapes and sizes, but the supermarkets only show you the ones that fit their image of "good".
6.They have historically been used as entertainment, where people would pass time by throwing rotten tomatoes at prisoners.
7.They were also used in this manner to encourage bad actors and performers to leave the stage, to make way for something more entertaining.
8.There is now an annual tomato throwing festival in Spain which attracts over 40000 tourists every year to the small town of Bunol, general population 9000.
and MOST awesomely...
9.They have a whole website dedicated to hating them, www.tomatoesareevil.com, which gives them immediate celebrity status.
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