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Default Buying Tomatoes that have good taste?

Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> Not just tomatoes. Many fruits in the supermarket are really poor
> quality compared to a local farm. Citrus can be good, but peaches
> and the like are pretty sad even in season. Those big strawberries
> make nice presentation, but taste like cardboard.


The peaches and nectarines that were in the regular markets were
awful this year. Luckily, the ramshackle farm stand that I go to
sells fruit that they grow, which is one reason why I started
going there.