On Fri, 2 Sep 2011 22:10:14 -0500, 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.

My grandparents were farmers so I grew up on real tomatoes. We are
having the best year ever with our tomatoes and I wish summer would
never end. There's still about 50 on the vines but I doubt they'll
all mature but green fried tomates rock. I'm sure we'll be talking
about that in a few weeks.

Lou