content: Man talk about sensitive taste buds! I was a lot like that until I got older.  Tomatos were bitter, shitty, gritty, dirt vegetable.  I could never understand the commotion.  Then I got older and realized that they're not supposed to be their own profound flavor(even though that's how everyone treats them), they're meant to balance flavors and bring down the outrageousness of stronger tastes, and highlight more subtle flavors.  Eating a tomato on it's own is still gross unless it's paired with something.