On Aug 31, 8:20*pm, projectile vomit chick
> wrote:
> 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.

I researched a little bit on heirloom tomatoes. Apparantly they are
not one specific type. They are basically tomatoes that have had
their seeds brought down generation by generation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heirloom_tomato