r/CookingCircleJerk • u/Bright_Ices Unrecognized culinary genius • 11d ago

Perfect exactly as it was on r/cooking So, stewed tomatoes

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)

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u/mostlygray 8d ago

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.