Tomato cores - who eats these??

[crustychick]

omg this thread has Opened My Eyes

 

[lizzieloo]

I grew my own this year but I still know what he/she is talking about.

So do I now

 

[Hocus Eye.]

I have never noticed that tomatoes have a core. However of how to core one.

 

[kittyP]

Is there such a thing as a tomato core? Who the hell cores tomatoes?

Oh crapping hell! Not your fault AS but guys guys!

There is blatantly such a thing as a tomato core whether you have eaten one or not.
Even a perfectly ripe cherry tomato has one albeit very edible. The bigger and less ripe a tomato is, the more troubling to eat (for some).

As the OP was talking about, pre packaged sandwiches and sometimes salads use big under ripe tomatoes and the core is yuk!

 

[fractionMan]

^^^ this

that ^^

 

[fractionMan]

What's your opinion on strawberry cores?

weirdo.

 

[dodgepot]

I don't think I've ever heard anyone even refer to tomato cores before.

no, nor have i.

 

[plurker]

This thread is excellent, best thing I've read all week.Tomato cores. Hehehe. Superb work. Heh.

 

[boing!]

I might remove seeds from a tomato if Im going to cook with it, but removing a core, from a tomato thats going to go in a sandwich- that's fucking crazy imho.

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

In Hungary, the word for tomato is Paradicsom (pronounced paradichom). Pradicsom also means paradise. I concur with this concept.

 

[tarannau]

They don't get put much in Hungary

 

[lizzieloo]

they don't get put much in hungary

 

[FabricLiveBaby!]

They do... it's just the tomatoes are better

 

[embree]

every tomato I have ever eaten does not have any kind of woody core...

do you know what a tomato is????

yes, this is what I think

 

[tarannau]

The problem here is that some people cleary don't have the discerning palates of others.

You serve a bit of tomato core in a sandwich in the Ritz's afternoon tea and you'd be out on your ear faster than you can say 'what a precious wanker of a chef'

 

[subversplat]

Well, thread solved then. SoS has to go for sarnies at the Ritz, and leave us all to our plebby normal tomato sandwiches.

 

[kained&able]

cores???

I don't think i have ever referred to a tomato core.


dave

 

[idioteque]

When I was little my grandad told me they were poisonous

 

[oryx]

What's your opinion on strawberry cores?

weirdo.

Dunno about soulfulofsoul but as a fellow tomato core-hater, I find the ones in strawberries just as bad. They have to come out.

 

[strung out]

Dunno about soulfulofsoul but as a fellow tomato core-hater, I find the ones in strawberries just as bad. They have to come out.

you core a fucking strawberry?

 

[bi0boy]

you core a fucking strawberry?

It comes out with the green bit if you're careful.

 

[tarannau]

Dunno about soulfulofsoul but as a fellow tomato core-hater, I find the ones in strawberries just as bad. They have to come out.

Like duh. You don't really core strawberries, but you certainly hull them.

(that's pretty much essential in my book, but you only take as little of the top off as possible, not remove the middle throughout the strawberry)

 

[strung out]

It comes out with the green bit if you're careful.

the whole core? i've never seen a strawberry like that

 

[tarannau]

You must have SO - there's like a little tapered hard top to the strawberry, jut underneath the green bit

 

[Leafster]

You must have SO - there's like a little tapered hard top to the strawberry, jut underneath the green bit

You sure you don't mean "raspberry"?

 

[oryx]

You sure you don't mean "raspberry"?

I can never get the hull out of strawberries - I just chop the ends off them.

 

[strung out]

You must have SO - there's like a little tapered hard top to the strawberry, jut underneath the green bit

surely that's just the stalk?

 

[tarannau]

Nah, there's more to it to it that that. There's definitely a harder, less tasty bit on strawberries too. I can live with it, but they're definitely there.

Fucking fruit eh

 

[strung out]

i don't eat fruit anyway

 

[bi0boy]

At least I don't peel grapes.