Sqwertz wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:49:24 -0700 (PDT), 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.
>
> Heirloom tomato doesn't mean "good". It just means "expensive". What
> you just had is a typical home-grown tomato. And now you know you
> know why people who were raised on home-grown tomatoes bitch about
> supermarket tomatoes.

Although... A few years ago when my tomatoes actually grew... They were no
better than the Supermarket ones. I was sadly disappointed.