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Default Buying Tomatoes that have good taste?

On Fri, 30 Nov 2012 07:18:29 -0500, William >
wrote:

>I was visiting my daughter last winter in south Florida and noticed a
>field of tomatoes with a big sign inviting me to pick my own. These
>were big beautiful looking ripe tomatoes. As soon as I got back to the
>house, I wanted to make a tomato sandwich. I sliced the tomatoes and
>piled them on the sandwich and took a bite. NO TASTE. They had no
>flavor or taste They were pretty to the eyes but had no taste! Later,
>someone told me that the Florida department of agriculture had
>developed hybrid tomato seeds to grow perfect looking tomatoes but
>they have no flavor.
>
>Does anybody have a fail safe method of selecting tasty tomatoes at
>the supermarket?
>
>William


I read somewhere that via selective breeding of tomatoes that redden
evenly and completelty superficially ripen (appearence-wise)
geneticallly, that these particular genetically selected tomatoes also
have little to no flavor.

Form over substance. That's the Amnerican Way! :-(

John Kuthe...