r/autism AuDHD 20h ago

Food TOMATOS DO NOT BELONG IN SOUP UNLESS IT IS TOMATO SOUP

If I get one more weird squishy in my otherwise firm soup, I'm gonna boycott Campbell's

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u/pinko1312 19h ago

That's just like your opinion, man

u/Risky_Bizniss 15h ago

A rug would really tie this post together

u/ZoeyKL_NSFW AuDHD 18h ago

Orrrrr you can just realize it's a comedic post instead of being so autistic /s

wait a minute...

u/pinko1312 18h ago

The dude abides

u/JayDonTea 15h ago

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u/alwayslost71 ASD Moderate Support Needs 9h ago

😄

u/IwasntDrunkThatNight 18h ago

Meh I'm Mexican, tomatoes belong everywhere

u/fractal_frog Autistic Parent of Autistic Children 16h ago

The only soup we make now is "taco soup", and we throw in diced tomatoes, and they're yummy in there!

u/LaughingMonocle Officially diagnosed Feb 2024 19h ago

Hard disagree. Tomatoes and tomato products make nearly everything better. It’s a staple ingredient in nearly all dishes I eat.

u/Number1Bg3Fan Autistic Adult 20h ago

I am not a soup enjoyer except tomato soup. But when my partner makes tomato soup it’s all blended up so we never have any unwanted textures waiting to throw me off guard.

u/ReserveMedium7214 AuDHD 20h ago

Tomatoes should be unrecognizable as tomatoes in anything they’re an ingredient in. Nasty little things.

u/ZoeyKL_NSFW AuDHD 19h ago

tomato is great except when it's a tomato

u/Bazoun Suspecting ASD 20h ago

Yes they purée away to nothing so why inflict that texture on us?? Why??

u/ReserveMedium7214 AuDHD 20h ago

Right?

u/rieldex 19h ago

real, i love the taste but i cannot do the texture or the seeds at all T_T i can even do like roasted cherry tomatoes, just not the normal ones

u/ReserveMedium7214 AuDHD 19h ago

I must admit, I can tolerate sun-dried tomatoes. They don’t look, feel or taste like plain ol tomatoes.

u/rieldex 19h ago

yeah! it's the texture of normal tomatoes and the like weird seed taste that super sets me off. sun-dried is okay, like i'd prefer it as a paste/sauce but it at least doesn't make me hurl

u/sogyaudacitybig_gear Autistic 19h ago

Yeah I have the texture, don’t get me started of those little cherry tomatoes! I don’t really like the taste either

u/puncheonjudy 19h ago

What about Minestrone bro? Topped off with parmesan cheese?

u/demeter1993 AuDHD 37m ago

Exactly what I thought

u/Ill-Stage4131 ASD Level 1 19h ago

I eat tomatoes raw

u/A-Chilean-Cyborg 18h ago

is your opinion, and thats fine, but don't say it like it's an indisputable fact.

u/ZoeyKL_NSFW AuDHD 18h ago

Orrrrr you can just realize it's a comedic post instead of being so autistic /s

wait a minute...

u/Pristine-Confection3 19h ago

It depends on the soup. Yeah; this isn’t true. Soup is never firm due to the fact it’s a liquid.

u/ZoeyKL_NSFW AuDHD 19h ago

liquids can A) freeze B) some soups come as concentrate that require water

u/jcb127 Aspie 19h ago

As an autistic person myself I forward this 👍

u/fractal_frog Autistic Parent of Autistic Children 16h ago

If you're at my house and you're offered homemade soup, decline.

u/Weekly_Jicama_7878 16h ago

similarly, tiny soggy bits of fruit need to stay the hell out of yogurts!

u/MiserableQuit828 Autism Lvl 1-Raising Lvl 1 & 2 20h ago

Cooked tomato chunks in food are an abomination. Make that shit into a sauce/paste before you put it into anything, mince it up small enough it's undetectable, there should be no large slimy hunks of tomato in any meal.

My husband is a straight psycho. So is my dad. These two will actually eat and enjoy cooked chunks of tomato. Pure insanity. /s Kinda. I really hate chunks of cooked tomato lol

u/strawbprincess88 20h ago

agreed!! tomato chunks in food 🤮🤮

u/SammySamSammerson 20h ago

Can I please turn this quote into a poster

u/ZoeyKL_NSFW AuDHD 19h ago

go for it just credit me

u/Wife-and-Mother Autistic Adult 20h ago

As a soup lover I wholeheartedly agree... with one exception which is Mexican soup... But even there, I think they should be blended first.

u/EinsamerZuhausi Autistic 20h ago

Tomato is great as a pasta or sauce, nothing else.

u/BrockenSpecter ASD Level 1 19h ago

Yeah, growing up my mother would just throw a bunch of diced tomatoes in soup she made. I love tomatoes. I eat them by themselves, I also like my mom's soup, but they don't add anything to a soup, and possibly a hot take they don't add anything to burgers, they just slip out of the burger and you now have a partially eaten lukewarm slice of tomato either on your lap or on the plate.

u/Fancy-Plankton9800 19h ago

Hell yeah.

u/Dear_Scientist6710 AuDHD 18h ago

Autism.

u/AstralalphaVT 17h ago

I used to feel that way about onions, I have no idea what happened but now I will pickle red onion, caramelize it for hotdogs, add extra to soups.

u/swirlybat 17h ago

wait what soup has tomatoes but isnt tomato soup, genuinely asking

u/DullMaybe6872 ASD Level 2 + Comorb. 17h ago

Jup,

However: Tomatoes are actually berries, that makes pastasaus a chutney or jam.

So a Jam sandwich and a plate of pasta should be on the same place on the food pyramid

u/idggysbhfdkdge 17h ago

I hate tomato soup but I love tomatoes in soup lol

u/Vin_Dragon 16h ago

I don't eat soup

u/BigE_04 15h ago

I do love me some tomato soup

u/Tsunamiis 15h ago

Firm soup. lol but I do quite agree warm tomato’s are texture nightmare

u/Routine-Bottle-7466 15h ago

I like tomatoes in minestrone soup.

u/AGoodDragon 15h ago

Tomato slices in chicken soup. Flashing in my mind

u/agentfortyfour 14h ago

I love tortilla soup.

u/FondantLong4534 14h ago

If I make soup with tomatoes they get chopped up real fine or puréed. I hate big chunks of tomatoes in my food. Like please don’t do that to me.

u/Pitiful_Flounder_879 14h ago

Tomato must be raw or processed. Hot tomato + peel = evil

u/jynxthechicken 13h ago

You can keep your tomatoes

u/Guerrilheira963 13h ago

What the hell! Tomato goes wherever I want

u/soukenfae AuDHD 13h ago

Tomato soup is so gross tho 😖

u/Leading_Movie9093 12h ago

I second this. I absolutely abhor the texture of tomatoes. Thank you

u/Remarkable-Cloud2673 12h ago

Why???//there are everywhere I no American to eat only tomato soup

u/YOUTUBEFREEKYOYO Asperger’s 12h ago

Ill further this, tomato, unless ketchup or salsa, bad

u/ParParChonkyCat22 ASD Level 2 Moderate Support needs and ADHD 11h ago

Yes

u/Emerish3401 ASD Low Support Needs 10h ago

They’re a great tasting component but very annoying

u/SparxIzLyfe 10h ago

I agree 100%.

u/ericalm_ Autistic 9h ago

Cioppino is very high on my list of comfort foods.

Gazpacho is one of my favorite things. Minestrone, wonderful. Tortilla soup, great. Manhattan clam chowder, second best, but I’ll eat it.

There are many Thai soups with tomato, as well various curry soups.

Campbell’s soup is crap anyways. And their tomato soup is awful. I avoided tomato soup until I was a teen because I though it was all like that.

u/Hashfyre 8h ago

That's a HOT POTATO take. 😅

u/CAPRICIOUS_BIZNATCH 8h ago

NOOOO YOU'RE NOT TAKING BRUNSWICK STEW FROM ME!!! NE V e r !!!

u/Dave_the_Rave_Dinkum 8h ago

Hell yeah they don't

u/imwhateverimis AuDHD 6h ago

I know we're strangers but I'm ending my friendship with you /j

u/Desperate_Owl_594 AuDHD 5h ago

Gives me heart burn sometimes.

u/Archimedes67 Asperger’s 4h ago

Sybau

u/N3koChan21 3h ago

Soup doesn’t belong anywhere near me. Tomato’s especially don’t belong near me.

u/Capri2256 2h ago

Au contraire mon frere.
The acid in the tomatoes brings out the flavor of many soups.

u/Returning_Armageddon 2h ago

I haven’t agreed with an online take this hard in years

u/PetThatKitten Social Communication Disorder 50m ago

I dont like tomatoes on its own, its like eating tomato sauce alone

(btw Shakespeare was the person who invented the word alone)

u/Henrimatronics 30m ago

I really don’t know who in their right mind would put tomatoes in soup. It really doesn’t sound appetizing.

u/JustACroww 1m ago

Well I mean nothing belongs in a soup but soup to me 🧍‍♂️... Apart bread. Gosh I love dipping bread in soup. I love bread.

u/NobleVulpes Suspecting ASD 20h ago

There are very few things I more than tomato chunks in food. Make tomatos into a paste or sauce or whatever and Im fine but just tossing a chunk of tomato into something is horrendous, especially when its squishy like you said. Even in tomato soup tomato chunks have no right to be there. I want my tomato soup to be soup, not soup with chunks in it.

u/Bobarosa 20h ago

I thought that said tattoos and immediately agreed

u/RA1NB0W77 Self-Diagnosed 20h ago

I hate tomatoes in all forms except for ketchup, pasta sauce, salsa and on roasted on top of pizza