On Aug 31, 3:49*pm, A Moose in Love >
wrote:
> I had lunch today at a friends place. *Nothing fancy. *Processed
> cheese slices with tomato on a light rye. *Grilled a little bit in a
> pan using no fat. *Also fried cauliflower. *That was it. *However, I
> haven't tasted such a tomato ever I think. *I'm used to the store
> bought stuff. *Kind of I don't know, kind of blah. *However his tomato
> I had today was packed full of flavour. *My friend got the tomatoes
> from her neighbours garden. *These toms must have been some kind of
> heirloom tomato. *I never thought I'd be praising the tomato, but
> there it is. *We don't get many heirloom tomatoes here in the
> markets. *I've only seen them once in the supermarket, and they were
> expensive. *I believe $3.99. *But if they taste anything like my
> friends toms, they might just be worth it.

Home grown tomatoes are unbeatable. I don't know what the hell
"heirloom" tomatoes are, I just grow and eat the damn things.