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.


Heirloom is just yuppiespeak for open pollinated varieties. More
specifically it /might/ mean open pollinated home garden varieties, as
opposed to OP canning tomatoes.

This year I grew seeds that I saved last year from Better Boy hybrids.
(BB is a very tasty and high-yielding hybrid tomato) The tomatoes this
year are the best I've ever eaten, although they are not as uniform as
the ones I grew last year. They are perfect. The better flavor
probably has more to do with the weather or something rather than the
second-generation (F2) hybrids, but you never know.

-Bob