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[theinevitable]

oh, wow. Ew.

hell of Oedipal. Gross. For some reason this reminds me of when I figured out, by smell, that my ex-girlfriend used the same shampoo as my mom.

... if I remember correctly, I made her change shampoos.

[Choop]

Dude, everybody uses Pantene

[littlefallsmets]

I'm gonna side with the couple of minority views on this one:

Tomatoes, tasty in theory, but the texture of slices or whole tomatoes is weird and off-putting.

Ground-up beyond recognition or in very small chunks, I am definitely pro-tomato.

Ditto for oranges. Great taste but chewing on it makes me think I'm chewing on the insides of my mouth.

[Choop]

You know you're supposed to peel the orange before you eat it, right?

[Carlos del Vaca]

Go to your local grocery store now and buy a box of clementines.  Hell of tasty, seedless, they peel up really nice, and they are small enough that they have little to no texture issues like oranges sometimes do.

[linnea]

Go to your local grocery store now and buy a box of clementines.  Hell of tasty, seedless, they peel up really nice, and they are small enough that they have little to no texture issues like oranges sometimes do.

oh jesus clementines are the fuck*ng win.

I had an ex who used Pantene. It smells nice, but I'm a niche perfume snob now who uses Aveda shampoo and thinks about fragrance too goddamn much.

And yes, it took me a while to learn to like regular tomatoes. I used to only buy Roma tomatoes and rinse away all the nasty goo, and only eat the solid tomato parts. Once you slice a ripe tomato and throw on some crispy sea salt and delicious, rich balsamic vinegar and some fresh buffalo mozzarella... trust me, you won't care anymore. The flavor is incomparable.

Nabu... you are right. Out here tomatoes are about $8.00 a pound. No joke. Sometimes we get good ones, though. They have a hothouse nursery in Anchorage that sends us "vine-ripened" tomatoes.

[Nabubrush]

I just remember tomatoes being the veritable definition of mealy. I fuck*ng hate mealy.

[theinevitable]

no, I mean, the worst part about the shampoo thing was that it was some bizarre, really specific shampoo.

[jough]

I think you need to eat good and fresh tomatoes to not get the mealy or god-forbid slimy texture.

Slimy is what happens when tomatoes start to rot.  Stay away.

Mealy is what happens when they're grown too quickly with chemicals.  Stay away.

Maybe I was spoiled by living next to New Jersey where they grow great tomatoes, because I haven't found a decent tomato out here in Chicago yet, but they do exist.

[Choop]

Somebody nice, add some basil and you've got an insalata caprese, a fine Italian salad - you can seriously just sprinkle on dried basil and it counts.


Also: New Jersey! The Garden State! It's not what you'd expect... from New Jersey!

[linnea]

Somebody nice, add some basil and you've got an insalata caprese, a fine Italian salad - you can seriously just sprinkle on dried basil and it counts.


Also: New Jersey! The Garden State! It's not what you'd expect... from New Jersey!

Oh man... I might have to bust open my piggy bank and go buy some tomatoes at the store, if they've got any. Jeeeeez, that sounds delicious.

Also, completely unrelated: I had a really weird dream last night about jough! We were in Philadelphia and it was very cold. We were waiting for a plane, I think. I don't remember much else, unfortunately. Pretend people from the intarwub showing up in dreams -- does this happen to anyone else?

[theinevitable]

I had a dream once about Paul killing himself in front of all of us. It was really ambiguous whether it was purposeful or an accident. And the way that he did it (perfect backflip, his head hit a perfect 90-degree angle on this cliff) reminded me of the thing where Roast Beef wanted kids to throw gutterballs at his funeral.

and of course, as it happened we suddenly were all posting about it on the board. Despite it happening literally in front of us.

[AugustWest]

I was lucky enough to meet and spend time with Paul last year.  Paul strikes me as the person least likely to commit suicide I know.  I'm not criticizing your dream, I'm just sayin'.

[side_show]

Sub_T - seriously, do you not like pizza, or lasagna or... anything.  I hated tomatoes as a kid, but now I like 'em.  It's really about getting them fresh from the garden.  Tomatoes from the grocery store are bad news.

Inev - I was just watching a documentary about smell, and they were talking about about how daughters are programmed to instinctively dislike the smell of their fathers.  They did not say anything about sons though.  That is hell a creepy in my books.  If my SO started wearing Old Spice I would probably cry.  That is a fatherly smell if there ever was one.

[jaydub]

... about how daughters are programmed to instinctively dislike the smell of their fathers.  They did not say anything about sons though.

There's a reason Oedipus Rex is considered a classic.

Also, when my daughter was tiny I found I could get her to sleep more soundly if I put one of my shirts in her crib.  Even now (she's 4) I'm the one she throws up on when she comes in to our room feeling poorly.

Maybe it changes around puberty.  I won't be looking forward to that change if so.