On 8/31/2011 4:49 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.

I don't even bother with the bred for transport picked green and force
colored by exposure to ethylene gas versions in the store.

I grow some heirloom varieties and there is a local farm that has a nice
selection of heirloom varieties. What incredible flavor. The rest of the
year I pass. For a while we could buy vine ripened grape and cherry
tomatoes in the winter from Amish farmers. But for some reason the
cherry and grape are now the flavorless force colored versions.