Davio McDavitt wrote:

> The quality of supermarket organic food according to my taste buds
> appears to be deteriorating. I find that the once-noticable
> differential in many of the organic products are no longer so obvious
> to me. It could be that I am losing my sense of tase with all the
> chillies I eat these days.


You are confusing "organic" with "vine ripened". The organic tomatoes
are probably picked green and ripened with ethylene as they are shipped
just like any other supermarket tomato. (Organic ethylene from an
overripe pineapple, perhaps.)

Bob