"A Moose in Love" > wrote in message
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On Aug 31, 8:20 pm, projectile vomit chick
> wrote:
> On Aug 31, 3:49 pm, A Moose in Love >
> wrote:
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> > 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


take a vacation!
http://www.tomatofest.com/carmel_tomatofest.html