On Sat, 01 Dec 2012 14:56:28 -0700, Janet Bostwick
> wrote:

>On Sat, 1 Dec 2012 13:39:24 -0800 (PST), Robert Miles
> wrote:
>
>>On Friday, November 30, 2012 6:18:29 AM UTC-6, William wrote:
>>[snip]
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>>I've read that most tomates are now a type bred to turn red before they are ripe. To avoid this, you may need to grow your own tomatoes, and if any variety is tasteless, don't plant that variety the next year. The older varieties are more likely to still have taste.
>>
>>Robert Miles
>That's a bit of bull pucky, don't you think? It may be true that
>tomatoes designed to withstand the rigors of shipping to market
>(commercial types) have sacrificed flavor in favor of endurance. But,
>most? I think not.

I've grown too many types of tomatoes to count, never a home grown
vine ripened tomato that didn't have great flavor, all types different
but all very tastey. Most supermarket tomatoes have little flavor and
their texture is dry. If I picked my tomatoes while barely turning
ripe and let them ripen off the plant (which I've done end of season)
they are edible but never taste better than those at the market.