“My Mom (83) still will NOT eat stewed tomatoes - in any form.”
Neither will my daughter. I do not understand it. The only tomato she has ever entirely eaten was grown by my father.
She does eat Spaghetti sauce and use ketchup.
Maybe it’s the acid in the tomatoes? I love tomatoes, but I have one son that doesn’t like raw tomatoes, only cooked ones. He was the only kid I had that wanted butter on spaghetti for the longest time. Turned out that it was the acid in foods that gave him reflux. He’s grown out of that now for the most part, thank goodness.