I love tomatoes. I love sandwiches. I love burgers. But who in the love of god thought it would be a good idea to combine these two and make your burger mushy, whet and disgusting.
A club sandwich without tomatoes is 10 times better.
There is simply no benefit to having this terrible slab of moist on your crispy burger.
Tomatoes should be cut, cooked and made into a sauce.
And yes i have been to italy where tomatoes taste like heaven. This does not change my opinion on a burger with tomato. ( i have no problem with onions, pickles or other items on a burger)
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I couldn’t agree more
Take one bite and the whole thing slides out, trying to drag its neighboring sandwich fixings with it. 😤
Crispy burger?
I will never understand why tomatoes/pickles/raw onions are a staple on burgers in the first place. They just seem so out of place and unnecessary to me. Cant upvote though because i wholeheartedly agree lol.
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I do like a tomato in a ham sandwich, but I have to dry that tomato out first then try to protect the bread from becoming moist with the ham.
For sandwiches I disagree, burgers I agree ,I have ham , cheese and tomato sandwiches for my lunch a lot and the,times that I havnt got any tomato’s it’s tastes bad because there’s not enough mixtures of flavour
I literally can’t stand tomato outside of reductions (sauces) or in sandwiches… I watched a dude eat one like an apple once and the very thought still keeps me awake some nights…
I finally feel seen, except about liking tomatoes, or at least raw ones
Yes!!! Thank you for saying it out loud!
Tomatoes on burgers I totally get because they just slide off on the first bite because of the skin. I personally like them on burgers but I can definitely see why people dont. BUT tomatoes on a sandwich? Heavenly. If you slice the rounds in half and lay them on a long sub style sandwich with a little salt on top it’s perfect. No sliding and you get the lovely freshness and little tang of acidity. If you’re worried about making stuff soggy, roma tomatoes are a great go-to. The have more flesh and less pulp than big slicing tomatoes so no sogginess
When I make sandwiches with tomato, I use a sharp knife to cut the wet, seeded portions out of the slice before putting it on the sandwich. Using only the fleshy part gives the sandwich tomato flavor without the excess moisture.
That does say a lot about the quality of the tomatoes you are using. They should not taste like a slap of water at all.
I love tomatoes on sandwiches and burgers.
i dont think ive ever met someone else else who dislikes tomatoes on sandwiches, i dislike most tomato products, but raw tomatoes on anything absolutely ruins it for me.
eta: its the most annoying thing too because theyre on absolutely everything, any time i order a new sandwich type item i ask because 95% of the time they come with tomatoes
Generally agree. But you are eating shit tomatoes….get home grown and heirloom…..BLT is next level.
You’re absolutely on point with this
I’m with you, and we need to replace all tomatoes with onions.
This thread is full of absolute psychopaths.
Part of what makes this sub enjoyable, I guess! Keep it up, weird friends!
Agreed, Tomato is the most useless of all the sandwich and burger toppings. That’s nothing, makes the bread soggy, and it comes out in one piece because it’s not easily bitten.
You may not enjoy a BLT, but removing the T would objectively make that sandwich worse, if not destroy it completely
Food preferences are not an unpopular opinion. They never have been.
Im sure you have a few more unpopular opinions you could’ve posted. But you had to choose the low effort one.
A BLT is a top tier sandwich. Preparation is the key. After slicing them, season them with salt and pepper. You need to wait a bit and then use a paper towel to soak up the extra moisture. At the end you get a firm , relatively dry tomato. It essentially gets rid of all of your complaints.
Does it matter if the tomato is paper thin, I don’t like the fat slices because they make the sandwiches wet , but the thin slices make me wet
That’s just like, your opinion man.
I’m gonna to take a wild guess here. Your mommy cut the crust off your PBJ, didn’t she.
I agree, but I feel like most people will disagree, so upvoted.
What sort of burgers are crispy?
Agree, I had a BL no T for dinner
Upvote because i couldn’t agree less.
The big differentiator here is; quality of tomatoes. 99% of places shove in disgusting, mass produced, pale, lifeless, tasteless tomatoes that would taste awful in anything. I love tomato on burgers but I always asked for burgers without it.
If you can get your hands on a real San Marzano or Brandywine tomato (or the best you can get at a farmers market), take the skin off (makes it easier to eat in the burger), lightly kiss it to the grill on both sides and have that with your burg.
spoken like a person that never had a good tomato. I agree tomatoes in this country are pure shit, but trust me when I say the tomatoes I ate when I was a kid in Italy would make you eat every single word you wrote and also the sandwich.
As a server I have noticed “No tomato” is the most common modification on our burgers/sandwiches.
Three simple words – no tomato please. Or just remove them?
But I love tomatoes, so you’re on your own with this one haha
I could never eat something that smells like my balls.
I’m more concerned about structural integrity, tomatoes just makes the whole thing slide apart.
It is one of the best sandwiches – bread, butter, slice of tomatoes, salt.
Usually I’d agree, but they’re so good in in-n-out burgers though. Something about the bun and sauce with the tomato is great.
I like tomato taste but not texture. If I wasn’t lazy, I’d use a mandolin to veerrryyyy thinly cut a tomato, like paper thin. And throw a few slices on a smash burger after it comes off the grill.
Season your tomatoes with salt and black pepper – then they make anything ten times better.
A true unpopular opinion
>crispy burger.
To me burgers are soft, not crispy.
You might like what they do in Austria, they do schnitzel burgers, which means breaded mince/chicken/porkchop/steak inside a softer burger.
Me? I open up burgers to put in more tomatoes.
But thank you, I honestly never thought of burgers as something that might be good crispy. They don’t really do that around here, I’ll have to try that out.
I dunno, a BLT just wouldn’t be right
Food is really really subjective, no need to use this sub for that
Dry then out with a kitchen towel and add salt and pepper. Done.
What kind of donut, does not use a firm tomato cut and seasoned? There bitter bites help compliment the array of flavors and not being able to evade the sogginess is a technical skill problem or personal taste problem…
This argument is similar to people who say they hate certain pasta because it’s mushy, food is mushy because you choose to prepare it that way.
Lol
You got my downvote. I love a good vine ripened slice of beefsteak tomato on my burger. Sadly, no burger joint has such a thing. And no ketchup. Tomato adds flavor and moisture to the bite. Having hands hold the burger correctly, nothing slides out if it’s also built correctly.
Pickles? You mean pickles..
Deseed it / remove the mush. Use a nice heirloom tomato. I think its a great addition. Do you like BLTs? Love a good tomato.