Kid was right. That tomato didn't rot. Something was up with it
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2025
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Þe kid clearly needs chemical treatment if he rotted quicker þan þe tomato
Haha, what a delight, my first wild spotting of the thorn (þ) character! I watched a YouTube video by a language nerd who'd love to see it resurrected :)
Yup! I've decided to be þe change I want to ſee :-) Alſo it would be ſuper cool for Engliſh to have its own addition to þe Latin alphabet like oþer languages have!
Oh, that's strange! I used to hate that Spanish (my first language) had all these extra additions to the base Latin alphabet as a kid and thought English looked more elegant for that reason. So for someone to actively want that feels strange.
I mean, now I know better having learned a bit of linguistics, but it's still trippy for someone like me coming from the other side having grown up with these preconceived ideas.
I really like the alternative spelling, though. I think it could be useful for teaching English pronunciation.
Eating tomatoes with just feta cheese and olives is something else.
Edit: I ment as they are, not a salad! From where I come(wink wink check profile), we do it a lot.
I know taste is subjective, but as far as I'm concerned, those are three gigantic nopes. 😝
I wonder how many people dislike the same groups of things?
Okay let's test it: Do you like licorice? I hate it, but the comment you replied to was talking about bliss
Absolutely love liquorice - well at least the British version of it which is like 50% aniseed. Not so much a fan of the Nordic version which tastes saltier than salt.
Other often-contentious dislikes of mine:
- Butter (ish - I have a really low tolerance before it tastes like it's gone rancid)
- Yogurt
- Fish (fish that doesn't really taste of anything, e.g. cod, is ok)
- Vinegar
I share a good number of these. I don't like tomato, olives, or anything fishy tasting. I do like anise flavored things such as black licorice.
The remaining stuff our tastes differ on.
I'm blown away when people say aniseed is similar to licorice. Aniseed is good, licorice is gross.
Nonono, aniseed is amazing; licorice is not. If you mix them you spoil the aniseed of course...
Anyway I love butter, I like yogurt and fish and I'm ambivalent about vinegar, I like it on some things more than others.
I can't think of any other flavors I don't like, I certainly have preferences but I can tolerate most foods I'm not that much into. Only exceptions would be avocado and pineapple which are painful to digest, but their taste is fine.
Red or black?
Let's go for both. Are they too different for you? I like aniseed but not licorice. They taste very different to me and I can't recall enjoying anything labeled as licorice, although where I grew up I didn't have that distinction in color or name for it.
It's a completely reasonable snack! Lol
Or just decent heirloom tomatoes, not the mealy garbage spread across half of the grocery. There are so many varieties with an abundance of unique flavors, and all relatively easy to grow yourself. Heirloom roma tomatoes are hearty, delicious, and culinarily versatile, so they’ve been my pick for ages. Haven’t lucked into an unpleasant variety yet!
I'm always sad when tomatoes season ends. IMO tomatoes are the singular item with the biggest difference between grocery store and local heirloom ones. It's like night and day.
Tomatoes for selling are hardier varieties to hold up to the impacts of shipping, they are also picked unripe and ripen in transit.
The only way to get good tomatoes is grow them yourself or hit up a farmers market.
I live in a farming area and there are no real farmer's markets here. The supposed farmer's market is mostly low-grade Etsy crafts and maybe two tables reselling grocery store produce at 300% markup.
That sucks, even our local grocery store sells farm direct for a few select items. This is in a LARGE city.
What kind of farming community doesn’t have a market for them to sell privately?
I didn't know heirlooms would be just as easy to grow. I might give it a go... I love their taste, unfortunately the price is a bit on the ridiculous sometimes.
If you’ve ever managed to keep a plant alive for a week, they’re almost certainly within your capacity! They are ridiculously hard to unintentionally kill.
Even with only lime juice and salt, they are like crack to me.
Or buffalo mozarella and balsamico
Stop, I can only get so erect.
Plot twist. The local farmers market dealer is also a crack dealer. The tomatoes have a light layer of crack on them.
Sprinkle some crack on 'em, and let's get out of here!
Yuck! I hate olives. ;)
Black or green?
Both. I don't like bitter foods, and they're both bitter to me.
I like a nice salad of tomatoes and cucumbers with french dressing and a little pepper. Some feta would make it even better!
Aaaaaa I have very specific use cases for feta, but no thank you by itself. Or in most things.
Tomatoes or olives alone… I’m with ya 100%.
xD
It's such a strange concept. "Here kid, eat this food you hate or I'm going to starve you!" You wouldn't do this to an adult, and we'd all hate to be in the position of having food we hate force on us. So why do we do it to our kids? Sure, maybe we need them to eat something other than hot dogs and candy; but, we can do better than just, "this is why I bought so you will eat it!"
I think it'd be more fun if in the last frame the tomato had flourished into a healthy tomato plant.
I thought determination was supposed to be a good trait!
“Stripped of all flesh, your bones bleach in the sun. It fills you with determination.”
Stripped of all flesh? Could I keep at least a little of the flesh? Cuz the flesh is what makes the bones worth having.
Well, okay. But you gain 1d4 less determination per round than usual, unless you pass a WIS check.
Fair enough. [looks for d20]
Tomatoes are ingredients, not food. :)
Yeah fuck tomatoes
I've always struggled to like raw tomatoes. They are warm and pungent, like opening a garbage receptical in the summer heat.
Grape or cherry tomatoes washed and wrapped in fresh baby spinach. Perfect healthy snacking!
i thought they were siblings? this comic is playing very fast and loose with its characters...
What indicates that they're not here?
just got the vibe that she's his mom in this one
Siblings treat each other like this all the time.