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It's like bursting little tumors in your mouth with each bite.
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Some people don't hate tomatoes, it may surprise you to know they even like them maybe even LOVE them. I'd say they're the cherry on top of a salad similar to cherries on a sundae >

It’s not the taste. It’s the frustratingly spherical shape. >

I always slice em at least in half for this reason >

Mmm. Halved and lightly seasoned before adding to the salad. A little salt brings out the best qualities of the tomato. >

My SO likes salted tomato. I hate it. Love salt, love tomato. But in my opinion it does the opposite of what you say. The tomato brings out the worst qualities of salt. Like the acid from the tomato just makes every grain of salt feel like its burning a hole in your mouth.  
Maybe I just have a sensitive mouth, idk. >

Totally fair and to each their own. I tend to like salty food in the first place and I also like dishes with variation in flavor and texture from bite to bite. Unless I'm using a strong vinegrette there aren't a lot of things with this quality that I'd usually put on a salad so for me it's a good option. >

I hate it when I stab it with a fork and pick it up and bite it in half and it explodes, splattering tomato juice and seeds on my date. Now I cut them in half with a knife first. >

The absolute WORST!! >

I ate a salad friday, stabbed cherry tomato with fork, and it shot tomato guts straight vertical directly into my eyeball.  Fuck cherry tomatos. >

The occasional oddly satisfying pop when you bite into one Is worth it though >

Whole cherry tomatoes do not belong on a salad.  They need to be dredged through hummus and popped into your mouth.
Sorry, that still doesn’t get rid of that awkward spherical shape, but at least now it’s finger food and doesn’t slid off the fork or squirt acid tomato juice in your eye when you attempt to pierce it with your fork. >

It’s much easier to pick them up with my fingers instead of the 40 attempts to stab them with my fork! I love the suggestion, hummus for life