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Would you rather eat a totato (potato that tastes like a tomato) or a pomato (tomato that tastes like a potato)?
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Tomacco
Look homer that idea has already been tried.
totato fries with pomato ketchup sounds like a great way to convince someone their having a stroke
Totato
Totato, tomato taste without the weird gross tomato texture.
What's the texture situations on these?
I imagined one is like a potato and the other a tomato, just with the flavours swapped.
Ok then I'm definitely going for the pomato. That's basically like a mashed potato in a nice skin to help keep it's shape.
Nah, that would be like watery soupy mashed potato. Plus I guess it would taste like raw potato
Neo, why can't you let me have my to-go mashed potatoes head cannon?! What did I ever do to you?!?!
Totato. I like the flavor, but not the texture, of tomatoes.
i was gonna comment the same exact thing lol
Can I make pomato fries? Do they need ketchup?
"What this tomato needs is some tomato sauce."
Pomato sauce
"Eureka! I have invented the self-ketchuping french fry!"
Could you imagine if this was a thing? Foods with flavor profiles switched with texture profiles of other foods?
Think about it:
We could actually achieve…. STEAK fries.
This would be amazing.
Ok so stay with me, when I was sick and couldn't eat solid food for two weeks my friend put a double bacon cheeseburger in her blender with milk then microwaved it for me. Once I got used to the flavor and temperature of a burger coming from a milkshake texture it was like one of the best meals I've ever had.
Any kind of mindfuckery with food should be tried bc why the hell not? 😂💜🍻
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Fried green pomato.
Also like ever bite into a raw potato? Even if it tasted like tomato that is a hard no.
Totato for sure, potatoes taste gross 😂
This triggered me. Please don't speak ill of potatoes. Are you even okay!?
It depends on raw or cooked.
If both options are cooked and line up so
A Totato has the texture of a coooked potato with the flavor of a cooked tomato, I'm 100% down
Pomato though... Idk. I'm imaging a pomato sauce and I think it would just be mixed mashed potatoes and spaghetti ya know? Not repulsive, but not desirable.
And if we're talking eating it raw? Totato without question. Rough texture sure, but I'd get through it .
look, if you need to deep fry or smother something in butter for it too taste good...it doesn't taste good
Then literally nothing tastes good.
Haahaha 😂 sorry
To me it's obviously the potato that tastes like tomato. I use tomatoes in so many dishes. Potatoes don't taste nearly as good as a tomato. Heck, even fried potatoes need tomato: fries with ketchup!
Absolutely. There's no real use for the opposite.
It would be just a shitty watery potato
I’m allergic to tomatoes and am in the middle of a brutal hay fever attack from eating crap salsa, so I’m gonna go with the totato
Pomato
There is a right answer, it's the totato.
Totato fries, with ketchup?
... Mayonnaise
I'll have a potomatato
What a wonderful phrase!
Dice 'em both, cook 'em together and eat them both.
Tomato and potato work together, so I figure that totato and pomato should too.
Neither. If I want to taste a tomato, I'll eat a tomato.
Tomato for sure. Made into fries would be excellent
That wasn't an option. Also tomato fries sound horrid.
Totato. I add tomato flavoring to potato a lot, but never the other way around.
Is the pomato cooked first? If not, then I'd rather have the totato.
Can we cook them? If not, I want the tomato that tastes like potato. If we can cook them, switch that.
Absolutely.
pomato hands down.
Potato flavored tomato? A bland tomato? I already eat those fried with egg wash and cornmeal. (One large tomato is enough for 1-2 people, don’t repeat my mistake. We ate fried green tomatoes for days in multiple forms.)
A tomato flavored potato? That’ll condense some of my recipes and ruin others. But also a yes.
disagree
No.
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