Unless tomatoes are in season and I’m in some sort of hipster farm-to-table restaurant, I’ll always hold the tomatoes or put them to the side, and inevitably a companion will ask why I don&#x27;t like tomatoes and I wind up in an argument over whether or not tomatoes are supposed to taste like water.<p>It&#x27;s dismaying. Do Americans think that the flavor of tomato sauce is an additive?<p>Alton Brown had a good layperson-friendly bit about this in Good Eats but I can&#x27;t find the episode on YouTube… anyway it worths.