Sun dried tomatoes are an abomination

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Take an upvote from someone who just meal prepped 3 spinach and sun dried tomato omelettes.

Laughs with mouth full of sun dried tomatoes

Solid unpopular opinion sun dried tomatoes are peak tomato, here’s an upvote.

Although I have no idea what “marry me chicken” is most social media food trends are awful.

Tomato raisins are the best

Goat cheese stands up to it in flavor. Upvoted for being unpopular

It's all about sun dried tomato pesto.

Give them all to me

C'mon people, matters of taste are never unpopular. In german we say "You cant fight over taste", if you don't have a saying like that in your language, adopt it and stop discussing taste.

to be clear: I don't mean talk about art and different oppinions/povs in general but in the sense of "mine is better than yours", "how can you like THAT" or anything along these lines. It's ridiculous.

Blasphemy. 

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As someone who adores fresh tomatoes those sun dried things are disgusting

Damn I feel the exact opposite way. Tomatoes have ok flavor but the texture is an abomination, sun dried concentrate the flavor and deal with the fresh tomato texture problem. Also the drafting off tomato’s popularity and divorce you chicken is hilarious.

As a Mediterranean, I agree that your opinion is unpopular. We use them in pesto, other pasta sauces, platters, chicken dishes, sandwiches....can't get enough of them! We pair them with olives, capers, goats cheese, gorgonzola, feta...and herbs like garlic, rosemary and basil. It seems you either don't know how to cook with sun-dried tomatoes or they're simply not to your taste.

This opinion is an abomination

Well yeah all the water is gone, all that's left is tomatiness

SILENCE!!!

Dem fighting words!

I just know you put pineapple on pizza but now you have taken things too far!

I'm on my anti-pineapple on pizza/bigotry towards sun-dried tomatoes hill so I'll meet you up here! Prepare to die as I have!

Here are some extra exclamation marks in case they are needed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

Fresh tomatoes are heavenly, sun dried tomatoes are the devil's dried boogers.

This reminds me that I should make some tomato chips.

Until the advent of refrigeration, sun dried was the most common way to eat tomatoes. As anyone who has ever tried to store half a sliced tomato in the 'fridge knows, tomatoes do not keep well!

Photo: Fields of tomatoes drying in the sun in Italy. 

I like them

Why do people take being a picky eater as a point of pride? It's nothing to be proud of whatsoever.

Tomatoes are the devils testicles.

Nah theyre good. Normal tomato texture is disgusting

Some can be a little too dried in my opinion but other than that I love them.

I remember an English comedian ranting about them once – "'Sun dried'!? When I was a child we'd have called them shrivelled!" (Can't remember which comedian sadly!)

They’re actually the only tomato I’ll eat

Seriously! They're so gross!!!

A true unpopular opinion.

More sun dried tomatoes for me 🤷🏻‍♂️

They are like the only tomato I will eat outside of sauce.

I’m made some (in the oven) from tomatoes in my garden last year and they were so good!

Thank you, sir/mam.

Blasphemer!

How dare you! 🤣

I make a chicken orzo meal with fried tomatoes and I have no idea what you’re talking about

Finally, some good fucking unpopular opinions

They do great in dishes with cream.

Replace with onions and I would full agree

Sounds like you’ve had some really shitty sundried tomatoes

Pff!

Just like olives. I agree.

There is a Friends episode about sun-dried tomatoes, lol

Now THIS is an unpopular opinion!

Truly unpopular and wrong

I like the flavor of sun-dried tomatoes, but I can't stand the texture. Especially if it's in pasta dish where the noodles have a slight chew and the tomatoes are like little bits of jerky that take 10x the effort to chew.

THANK YOU! Fucking disgusting. Any one element of a dish that completely overpowers the other flavors, I’m looking at you cilantro, is a garbage ingredient.

I hate tomatoes. I could never eat something that smells like my balls.

Roasted tomatoes are far tastier.

HAHA I just made a pasta with sun-dried tomato pesto and a whole jar of sun-dried tomatoes and thought to myself while eating it - "goddamn it I wish I put more sun-dried tomatoes in this". Take my upvote

i feel ya, i hate them too

Actually unpopular opinion. Didn’t read the body just the title. Got all I needed from that.

I feel this way about cilantro.

I couldn’t agree more. Sundried tomatoes are complete ass. The texture of a raisin with the taste of an old tomato. The fuck outta here with that nastiness

I hate them too. The taste is fine, but the texture is ungodly to me. Ugh.

To me they taste like soap. I don't like sun dried tomatoes either.

I like them but yes, use sparingly.

They can absolutely drown out every other flavor in 1 bite.

Not as bad as fresh tomatoes

Best pound for pound fruit/vegetable? Hell nah

I hate regular tomatoes but I love sun dried tomatoes. They are like ketchup in solid form. Last night I ate a whole bunch of them when I woke up at 2am.

This is so true

Meh, some are much better than others. And if they are marinated in a bunch of herbs n shit, yes, they probably will overpower. But a basic ass sun dried tomato is delicious.

Regular tomatoes are not even healthy

I despise regular tomatoes, but the sundried ones are absolutely delicious.

I agree with ya buddy

Fantastic take

You’re telling me my son dried these tomatoes?

Take your upvote because you're entirely wrong. Especially in the winter when you can't get good tomatoes. We dried all the ones we couldn't eat from our garden and they help so much.

I don't know, whenever I have something with this I usually also clearly taste salt, garlic,black pepper, and basil or thyme.

I hate regular tomatoes but i love sun dried tomatoes in stuff

Chicken Bryan from Carrabba's is my favorite

Sin dried tomatoes are more like jerky where it's done for storage, less for flavor. Some people just really learn to like the taste (in the same fashion as jerky).

I think they're good but most recipes call for way too much. I love just a little bit ground up in a cream cheese and spinach spread. But it's got to be a LITTLE bit.

Oh man. Sometimes it makes the pasta dish!

I love sun dried tomatoes in oil. It's a shame they're so expensive.

they need to cook on a low flame for an hour or so. if the texture is gummy, you cooked them wrong. as for their strong flavor, well yeah. they’re supposed to be the star of any dish they’re in.

We need to get you a Netflix special

i think they’re yummy 🤭

Definitely incorrect, take my upvote

Shun dried tomatoes

I agree, roasted tomatoes are better

Sun dried tomatoes and pesto are a HIT wth are u talking about? Put some on your grilled cheese

Love them. Great to use blended up in a dressing, or to add a real umami punch to a pasta dish. I like food processing them with fresh oregano, basil and garlic and making a sundried tomato pesto.

Unlike some dried items, the flavors of a tomato only intensify for the better when dried out a bit

They taste like stomach acid to me.

They’re a total deal breaker for me.

Man this makes me want a hamburger with a fried egg and sun dried tomatoes on it. So good.

Definitely unpopular. I just made that dish two days ago and everyone loved it

I appreciate your gusto about this topic

You’ve got it twisted.

raw tomatoes are an abomination.

Sun dried tomatoes are little nuggets of deliciousness.

I agree with you if they are preserved in oil. It's all you taste and not a good taste.

The ones stored in air are great though. I grew my own Principa Bourghese tomatoes this spring and have a batch in my dehydrator right now.

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“CORRECT” in Uncle Roger’s voice. 😆

Good unpopular opinion OP, these comments are juicy.

I dunno, this seems like a fact to me.

If this opinion is unpopular, then let's be unpopular together. I loathe sundried tomatoes. They're like the raisins of tomatoes. The same way raisins are way, way worse than grapes, sundried tomatoes are worse than the non-shrivelled-up-and-ruined variety of tomato.

They were obviously some bozo's mistake, like he had some lovely tomatoes and then left them out in the sun too long, and when he got back to them he was like "Damn it! I was supposed to take those tomatoes to market! What am I gonna do now?" Then he got the bright idea to take them to market anyway, and pretend like he let them dry out on purpose, and sell them to the sort of epicure that, ironically, lacks taste.

Anyway, I am in hard, rock-solid agreement with you on this point. Sundried tomatoes suck and are a mistake.

This reminds me, I need to put sun dried tomatoes on my grocery list

They are exquisite, but to each one their own, I guess.

Dice them finely and use sparingly.

Cheddar, oil-marinated sdt and sweet pickle chips on savory crackers. Absolutely don't drown out the other flavors, but it's true that a small to medium-sized piece will do.

I think they're ok but I wouldn't go out of my way to buy some.

Same argument goes for regular tomatoes

Luckily sun dried tomatoes died out in the 1990s….

I’d say the thing about sausages or an unlimited number of other foods. It’s preference. I like em on pizza, but I cut them up real small and add only a few. The cheese is salty enough.

Also, I hope you’re not eating un-pickled ones. That’s a form of self punishment.

I don’t like them either! Same for pepperocinis.

I wholeheartedly agree. Every time they’re in a salad, cream sauce or soup it’s like a giant, oily raisin that trumps all other flavor.

Sun dried tomatoes in pesto are lovely. On their own, less so.

Agree. They are absolutely disgusting, and I love tomatoes........

Yeah i get it. Its a strong flavour and are hard to work around and balance correctly. I tend to pair with goats cheese and spinach as the three all have very strong flavours which compete with each other but end up mirroring

I really like bruschetta tho! Is it in that? Bcuz if it is, I like it

So so true! I love tomatoes in every other form except ruined by the sun.

I feel this way about olives and peppers.

Lmaaaooo upvoted because I giggled at the extreme hatred

Yea I'll upvote cause I snack on sun dried tomatoes.

Yea, you're trippin lol. To each their own though.

I tolerate fresh tomatoes, abhor sun dried. Just as op says. Overpowering and ruin everything.

sun dried tomatoes, capers, olives

pretty much only three foods I don't like

They are the worst food known to man. The other one I hate is roasted red peppers. Sundried tomato’s are worse tho by a lot

I find they are ok on the right sort of pizzas, but not so great on other food.

Send em here

The trick is to cut slithers of sundried tomatoes (very thin) into a salad. That way, you get bursts of soft sweetness amongst crunchiness.

This and caramelized onions for me. If my tomatoes and onions don’t taste like tomatoes nor onions, my brain says it’s wrong.

Agreed. I don't want gummi raisins in my cookies. I don't want gummi sun dried tomatoes in my other food. The texture just doesn't do it for me.

ALL tomatoes are an abomination 

I respect them because they taste edible, unlike raw tomatoes