- reaction meaning
- Used in comments to express that something is bad or laughable, though many Facebook users also use it literally for food content.
- comment use
- Appears in food group comments positively ('love tomatoes in this recipe!') or occasionally as disapproval in news comment sections.
- boomer interpretation
- Largely interpreted literally as the vegetable/fruit โ older users rarely pick up on the 'throwing tomatoes' connotation.
- group use
- Common in gardening groups (celebrating homegrown tomatoes), recipe groups, and occasionally in humor groups for the theatrical rejection meme.