Tomato's have no place in a fruit salad.

Goodness, someone got serious and fast! I will begin with the rebuttal. 1.) First have you tried crab apples on your ice cream? Just curious as to the results. Second I have one drink that will prove you wrong, it is called the Tom Collins, the Gin (a bitter flavor) is used to balance the sweet-tangy taste of the lemon and lime used in sour mix. Yes I have tried it once on a dare and it was the worst thing ever. And just like tomatoes, I'm guessing a majority of people don't use or consume a Tom Collins on a daily basis. 2.) Where do you get your information, Mississippi is the fattest state. -http://calorielab.com...... Sorry I was wrong, but Texas is still a really fat state so my point is still there. Texas actually has at least 4 of the fattest cities in the country, including San Antonio and Houston. 3.) . Since I'm sure by American you mean the states then you would be incorrect, Tomatoes are from South America, it has been reasoned most likely Peru... therefore they are Peruvian. -http://www.landscapeimagery.com...... No I meant America, including the U.S, and everywhere else. 4.) I do not know what attacks you are speaking of in 2 and 3 so I will not bother to address that issue. I will address your issues if you have any. Do you not care about me the way I care about you? :( 5.)Tomatoes are usually rotten when they are thrown (hence the website rotten tomatoes). This is likely due to the fact that people are so disappointed in the performance that they throw the tomatoes, just like how they are disappointed that their delicious fruit went bad. So you have been to a show where they throw tomatoes at people? And you took note at the fact that they were rotten? Do you really think that someone would put rotten tomatoes in their car and risk their new leather to bring rotten tomatoes to a show, and just Top throw them at some poor guy? I would disagree. Not to mention rotten tomatoes could be carrying disease ridden bugs. I don't think it would be legal to risk the spread of bacteria like that. 6.)"There are mentally handicapped Americans who think that tomatoes are a vegetable, and you may risk confusing them." Putting them in fruit salads would help educate these unfortunately misinformed people. No, it would give them a seizure. Americans can be startled and confused very easily. Half of the country suffered minor heart attacks when a black man became president, so don't think they wont drop dead when they find out tomatoes aren't vegetables. 7.)In regards to sol nine, this only exists when tomatoes are green and since tomatoes are eaten while red it isn't a concern. The leaf of the tomato also contains solanine, even if you discarded it the family pet could get into it, oh no! 8.)As far as the "leafy-thing" on the top of tomatoes I believe they would most likely be chopped/diced like the other fruits of a fruit salad and you could therefore remove the green extremity at this point. "I believe" I believe it wouldn't be removed by some method of cutting, so where do we go from here? 9.)That is because the mom is saving the tomatoes for dinner! Unless its in the form of pasta sauce or ketchup, the majority of kids wouldn't eat a raw or cooked tomato with their dinner. 10.) Since it seems you were in a rehab facility or a mental ward (since you hallucinated rocks being served to you as food) we should most likely just strike this (and all other) comment(s) from the record. Agreed? Anyhow since any form of fruit salad would be expensive it is likely not on a prisoners meal plan (on average there total daily meals cost around $2.25). It wasn't a mental ward, it was a prison. And there were these three guys in the cafeteria talking trash about some other inmates. They hatched a plan to kill one of the trash talkers, and they knew it would be easy because he was blind. When they were on cafeteria duty they fixed him up a "fruit salad containing only tomatoes and rocks. He was given a spoon and on the first swallow he chocked and died. I was actually visiting my uncle who was a prison guard, that's how I gained entrance to the cafeteria and saw this all go down. Are you happy now? Now that I was forced to bring up the death of that poor blind man who chocked on rocks and your precious tomatoes? 11. "The inside of a tomato looks like an organ." Which one? The organ looking one. 12.)The second top rated recipe was a lasagna... both crushed tomatoes and tomato paste. You should go back and check it out for yourself. It was called World's Best Lasagna, submitted by Johnchandler on allrecipe's top 20 recipes page that you referenced. We are talking about how tomatoes shouldn't be in fruit salad remember? I don't know why I through that in there in the first place. Now that I'm done with all that I will conclude. Conclusion: Tomatoes are a fruit, but not a fruit worthy to be in a fruit salad. Tomatoes are icky and bitter and would only ruin the sweet sensation that eating a fruit salad delivers which is why there presence in all fruit salads should be cut off. I hope you guys make the right decision and vote pro! Keep tomatoes out of our children's fruit salad!