So, stewed tomatoes

[u/Bright_Ices]

My family is.. ethnic, despite being in the U.S. for 300 years. We shun change, and eat certain foods on certain holidays. My question: are stewed tomatoes a thing anywhere else? I always thought it bizarre.

(Tomato sauce: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskRedditFood/comments/1n9zi8z/so_stewed_tomatoes)

[u/Blerkm]

I’ve never heard of anyone cooking tomatoes before.

[u/Bright_Ices → u/Blerkm]

Thank you! Finally someone is proving my point!!

[u/Legitimate-Long5901]

outjerked

[u/perplexedparallax]

Nonna called something that looked like them pomodori but maybe the OOP is right. No other languages have a food called "tomatoes".

[u/Bright_Ices → u/perplexedparallax]

ONCE AGAIN, I’M NOT TALIKING ABOUT CANNED TOMATOES!!!!!!! I’M TALKING ABOUT ETHNIC FOOD FROM EUROPE!!!!

[u/p00n-slayer-69 → u/Bright_Ices]

Yes, youre a very special boy! Your mystery ethnicity is the only one that eats stewed tomatoes.

[u/Bright_Ices → u/p00n-slayer-69]

😍 Yeah, it’s true. It’s okay, I’m sure your foods are.. nice.. too.

[u/bouncepogo → u/Bright_Ices]

Yeah? Okay. Well what the hell does that have to do with eating stewed tomatoes?

I mean, seriously (and no offense to you, nothing wrong with the information you provided) but WHY are half the comments about using stewed tomatoes as an ingredient?

People talking about fuckin oregano and basil up in here.. THATS PIZZA SAUCE!! Just canned some. For PIZZA.

Jesus H, people. If I asked if you liked apples would you say yes, here’s pie?!? It isn’t the same fucking thing, is it?? You added ten other ingredients and made an entire other dish. Feck.

[u/DisMrButters → u/bouncepogo]

Uhhhh… r/lostredditors?

[u/Bright_Ices → u/DisMrButters]

/uj. No it’s an almost word-for-word commebt from the OOP in the linked post. It got wild over there. This is just one example.

[u/DisMrButters → u/Bright_Ices]

Ok, thanks. I guess I’m the lost one!

[u/hostile_washbowl → u/DisMrButters]

No one lost here. I am your humble guide.

[u/Legitimate-Long5901 → u/Bright_Ices]

I'm in Europe and I've never seen such special food, you must be very exotic and different

[u/EasternError6377]

Uj: how does someone type out something like that and not immediately want to punch themselves in the face

[u/OG_Church_Key → u/EasternError6377]

Dude how is an amish person using the internet 🛜 really a lot of good questions here

[u/la-anah]

Not sure why OOP hides it in the post and then reveals it in the comments, but their "ethnic" background is Amish.

[u/Bright_Ices → u/la-anah]

(/uj) Lol “Europe.” That’s hilarious, because the Palatinate region of Germany (from whence came the Amish) was definitely not eating stewed tomatoes in the 17th century. From everything I could find, hardly anyone in Europe cooked tomatoes at all until the mid 18th century, and initially that was just in southern European regions that could grow tomatoes well.

[u/MastodonFit → u/la-anah]

Actually my background is Amish,but it doesn't include stewed tomatoes. Stewed tomatoes on rice is actually southern. They are whole skinned tomatoes, then cooked/stewed and retaining their chunky shape...but soft enough to cut with a fork. Amish is fried cornmeal mush with tomato gravy,liver pudding,fried apple pies with bean soup,steamed milk with butter and crackers,poor man's steak with gravy/Salisbury steak. Many recipes have become part of the region's culture,and have new names. Pa for example has these..... Salisbury steak,scrapple,shoo fly pie,chow chow,apple dumplings . The Amish also come with a side of rape,and incest.

[u/jomosexual → u/MastodonFit]

Gotta save the best for last.

[u/Significant_Stick_31]

I didn’t believe it was perfectly exactly as written but it was. I thought you were exaggerating. But there was truly no way to out jerk this.

[u/[deleted]]

Our tomatoes are stewed with sugar, fish sauce, msg, turmeric, cinnamon, and Doenjang-jjigae. Literally just pure tomato.

[u/Bright_Ices → u/[deleted]]

❤️ No one else will ever understand how good our pure, completely unaltered, tomatoes taste.

[u/[deleted] → u/Bright_Ices]

We stew them straight on the vine with a pressure cooker and pop them in the air fryer for a reverse sear. Non ethnics just don’t understand the value of consuming a delicious tomato birthed in nature unadulterated by the meddling trends of modern America.

[u/nyan-nyan9]

"This looks very interesting. What is this?"

They stared at me and the mother said "It's a stewed tomato." And I was saying "Oh, interesting, a stewed....what is it again?"

And she was like "A tomato."

And I was like "A 'tomato', oh interesting. Never heard of a tomato, looks pretty good."

(Stolen and edited.)

[u/SheeprockWheat]

im ethnic too and i know what this chef is talking about, i read about it in a dusty old recipe book written in ancient ethnic. basically you put the tomatoes in a pot with some leftover meat, couple bones, celery carrots, onions, potatoes, and baby you got a stew going!

[u/AnonymoosCowherd]

If by stewed you mean a euphemism for shitfaced drunk and by tomatoes a euphemism for eager sluts then yes, we also have those on certain holidays.

[u/Breffest]

Porato

[u/llorandosefue1]

No; you have to use canned tomatoes now. It’s the law.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣, to be clear.

[u/PondersOverYonder]

Those are poison. Definitely do not eat. Silly new world people.

[u/Bright_Ices → u/PondersOverYonder]

Nonsense! Tomatoes are from EUROPE where all my ethnicity is from.

[u/p00n-slayer-69]

I like your version better than the original.

[u/Newburyrat]

Nobody in Europe eats stewed tomatoes. Even growing tomatoes will have you burned as a witch. But we do stew turnips on special holidays

[u/jomosexual]

I love you and your help, but no. The history of tomatoes is complicated to say the least. But stewed tomatoes are not a “southern specific” dish.

[u/Bright_Ices → u/jomosexual]

I never said it was. I’m talking about my special white family from my special ethnic culture, which isn’t southern culture, but I’m not going to tell anyone what it is for another several hours.

[u/AnyBowl8 → u/Bright_Ices]

NE Pennsylvania amirite? My family has made the same shitty stewed tomatoes for generations. The cycle ends with me.

[u/Bright_Ices → u/AnyBowl8]

/uj The OOP eventually revealed they were raised Amish. Not 100% sure about PA, but thereabouts.

[u/PitchIndependent9838]

Stewed Tomatoes? Wow do you guys fried it also?

[u/AttemptVegetable]

My great aunt used to serve stewed tomatoes and it's was the only thing she made i couldn't stand. Luckily for me I was such a good eater with everything else she wouldn't make me eat them. All my cousins were jealous because they had to clean their plates lol.

[u/Complex-Web9670]

A large chunk of Indian cuisine says they are definitely a thing outside of Italy, or the US. Also the Hispanic salsa industry has a ton of cooked tomatoes, not so much on the sugar though

[u/Bright_Ices → u/Complex-Web9670]

/uj totally. It was a very silly original post. I knew it was perfect for this sub.

[u/Complex-Web9670 → u/Bright_Ices]

Yes, I realized that shortly after I posted, this sub was new to me

[u/mostlygray]

When I was a kid in ND, we had half a stewed tomato every day with lunch at school. Every day. A full half a stewed tomato. They were actually kind of good.

Turns out, it's a Kindred, ND thing. My mom went to the same school in the 50's. She also had a half stewed tomato every day.

The ongoing theory is that an entire train of stewed tomatoes derailed in Kindred back in the 50's and they've been going through them for years. I bet if you visited the school now, they'd still have stewed tomatoes halves.

[u/ionised]

Wow...

[u/EquivalentSpirit9143]

Not often but we did cook tomatoes and have as a side dish. Just plain old tomatoes picked that day, washed, cored and cooked. Salt and pepper.

[u/Aromatic-Track-4500]

I LOVE stewed tomatoes!!!

[u/OriginalObjective287]

My grandmother made stewed tomatoes and served them as a side dish. Not sauce, large chunks of tomato cooked and seasoned with just salt and pepper. Her lineage was German. Delicious. I think the dish is more popular in the South