I HATE tomatoes. I don’t know why we allow them in grocery stores. I don’t want to see them sitting there next to good green vegetables like cucumbers, bell peppers, celery, avocados, and spinach. I don’t want them contaminating my salads, sandwiches, or hamburgers. I don’t want them stealing the jobs from good green vegetables. Look, lettuce and avocado can do the job for any salad, sandwich, or hamburger.

Tomatoes are confusing too. Are they a fruit or a vegetable? I mean google says they are a fruit and then the grocers put them with the vegetables. Why can’t they just pick one?

Honestly, I don’t want them sitting next to the cucumbers and lettuce in the grocery aisle. I don’t know what it is but when I see a tomato sitting next to the cucumbers and lettuce I just get angry. I know they’re taking away from other vegetables getting the opportunity to shine. They are defiling my tacos and salads on a regular basis. Furthermore, I know they don’t belong with the other vegetables, they’re a fruit after all, and I have a solution.

Let’s ban tomatoes.

We’ll be just fine without them.

I don’t want to hear you whine about how you love tomatoes or need tomatoes. You’re misled. Tomatoes don’t deserve our money.

Sure, I enjoy a good pizza sauce, restaurant-style salsa, spaghetti sauce, ketchup, or chili as much as anyone else. However, allowing tomatoes to overtake our grocery aisles, sandwiches, and salads is just too high a price to pay for a few delicious food items. There’s corn salsa, guacamole, green salsa, white sauce, Alfredo, and white chili ready to make our pizza, spaghetti, salsa, chips, and chili great again.

Let’s empty the grocery stores, fields, and restaurants of tomatoes! We’ll send those on the shelves and those in restaurants back to wherever they were grown. Let them deal with all those tomatoes.

I know banning tomatoes means sacrificing all the good things like salsa, red sauce, pizza sauce, and something others love at the altar of hate and hostility.

Banning tomatoes means something others love at the altar of hate and hostility.

Banning tomatoes means sacrificing at the altar of hate and hostility.

Hmmm….maybe we shouldn’t ban tomatoes. Maybe I’m throwing the baby out with the bathwater because I have enmity toward tomatoes.

• Galatians 5:20 lists enmities or hostility as the state or feeling of being actively opposed or hostile to someone or something, which is a desire of the flesh that is in opposition to the fruits of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.