On Sep 2, 8:10*pm, 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.

No. Heirlooms are open-pollinated, not the F1 hybrids that Burpee,
etc. sold to home gardeners for years. They seldom come resistant to
the various diseases and wilts that plague tomato growers. Early Girl
-- not an heirloom.