Tomato Juice

Like it or hate it?

I like it. Love a Bloody Mary too.

I like it, but rarely drink it. Prefer tomatoes. I use it in stews and gazpacho....

I know people who like tomatoes but hate tomato juice. I find that odd.

...like it but don't love it...

I like it but rarely drink it. More often on flights.

I make home canned tomato juice every fall... I love it!

OK with Chile of some description added-a bit heavy on the sodium usually.

We have no-salt tomato juice here.

I like it with vodka and tabasco sauce.

Canned tomato juice needs something salty, spicy or acidic, as others have posted above, in order to alleviate its canniness. I prefer V-8 Juice, which has some complexity.
Salt free tomato juice might make me blurk.

Thick tomato juice is OK but not watery for me and maybe only during traveling time when I have no other choice to take vegetables.

Tomato soup or tomato sauce yes!

I am with #9 on this one.

Yes, but you can't have any vodka. ;-)

love it. thick...with a dash of tobasco

Trust me.

Your quality of life will not be further enhanced by ascertaining my, or any other person's opinion on tomato juice.

#15 don't worry, its not a permanent thing!

Why does flying in an airplane induce people who otherwise don't drink tomato juice to ask for it?

Shilgia, that´s not my case...

Not really mine either, but it's true that on a plane there are always people who order tomato juice, right? Almost to the point that I'm tempted to drink tomato juice myself to see if it does something special in the air.

My sister worked for a catering firm for a while, and she said tomato juice was always the #1 non-alcoholic drink at parties thrown by banks and insurance companies. At other functions hardly anyone asked for it.
This suggests one possible explanation for the plane riddle: perhaps these people are all bankers and insurance people.

Hate it

I love tomatoes in all forms of appearance and ways of preparation except for juice.

I like tomato juice but for unknown reasons don't drink it too often.

Shilgia, or they may just like to have something different, given that choice.

I like tomato but prefer V-8. It's got a nice savory quality. Low sodium only. Believe me, it's still plenty salty.

Tomato Juice on an airplane is your body's craving for it's natural blood thinning properties. Since you're sitting on a plane for a long time, blood tends to clot (you've all heard the stories). I would only drink tomato juice on an airplane even as a youngster...after doing some research, your body is telling you what it needs. If you've never tried tomato juice while flying, trust me. Once you have it, you'll crave it every time you fly. Now if my body would only stop craving methamphetamines!

I'm another V-8 person. I drink tomato juice on planes, though. It's when I know I need something liquid, and the alternatives are soft drinks with sugar and/or caffeine, coffee, terrible tea, or booze (which you have to pay for). The orange juice is often canned or otherwise not very tasty. The tomato juice is a more healthful drink and is more filling than other options. That can be important on those flights where the only food you get is a package containing three half-crushed pretzels.

your body's craving for it's natural blood thinning properties.

There's very little data on this. One study found that tomato juice acts as a blood thinner. It was a preliminary study with only 20 participants. And, the study was done with diabetics, so may not apply to all. Participants drank tomato juice every day for three weeks. There is no evidence that a single glass will do anything, but drinking tomato juice on a regular basis may be beneficial to long haul flyers.

The V-8 Juice sold in Mexico is thinner in body, and slightly spicier than U.S. V-8. There are new variations, one with "limón", that are tasty.
We buy it by the dozen at Costco.

Ice
Tomato Juice
Worsteresesesshire Sauce
Garlic Salt
Black Pepper
dollop of sinus clearing horseradish
pickled asparagus spear
Liberal amount of medicinal vodka

voila

or booze (which you have to pay for)

This is why I hate USA-based airlines (and European discount airlines, though I'm more OK with the European short-haul ones).

Here in Asia, they wouldn't dream of charging you for booze, at least not on an international flight. Cathay Pacific? JAL? Evergreen Group? They can't get me mile-high drunk fast enough! Then I fly to New York on AA and whiskey is suddenly $5.

I had a whinge about it to my folks after a particularly bad Tokyo-NY flight and they didn't believe me that the other international airlines still provide it as a complimentary beverage.

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Ice
Tomato Juice
Worsteresesesshire Sauce
Garlic Salt
Black Pepper
dollop of sinus clearing horseradish
pickled asparagus spear
Liberal amount of medicinal vodka

voila

Where does the pickled asparagus spear go, for that special, "Pick-me-up"?

Stir it up, Anonimo. Stir it up.

{quote:title=cardamom wrote:}OK with Chile of some description added-a bit heavy on the sodium usually. {quote}

You mean like sangrita ?

I can't believe this thread has been here for 3 months and I am just reading it now.

#33 = Bob Marley?

Tomato juice is the pits...waste of good tomatoes...

Who invented a Bloody Mary? Mary, Queen of Scots? (Probably a relative of Tonya - says it all)

"Oh look! I have some vodka so I'll add loads of tomato juice to it" - and ruin it!