"barry in indy" > wrote in message
m...
> "Coas****cher" > wrote in message
> ...
> > No no no! These are the same people who insist on eating a
> bunch of
> > grapes before buying, poking holes in melons, and sqeezing the
> tomatoes
> > till they are mush. We pay for this! If you can't figure out
> what is
> > best, ask for help. The next step, which I expect soon, will
> be all
> > produce packaged in plastic and not be able to be examined till
> we've
> > bought it and gotten it home. I don't want that do you?
> >
> I used to shop at a market where they prepackaged their tomatoes.
> When I would get home and open the package, invariably there
> would be one or two "unacceptable" tomatoes on the bottom. I
> would take them back to the store and they would give me a
> refund. After I did this for about six weeks in a row, they
> stopped prepackaging them. I like to think I am partially
> responsible for their decision.
>
> This reminds me of the outdoor produce markets overseas. When you
> selected your fruit or whatever, you placed it in a paper bag,
> always trying to be slightly over the weight you wanted. If you
> were underweight, like, say, slightly under a kilo, the merchant
> would throw in a bruised, rotten, or otherwise unacceptable piece
> of fruit, which he kept near the scales for that very purpose.
> (Of course, this was in the days before electronic scales.)

i would take a rotton bruised tomato that was grown in an actual garden from
a real seed over the genetically modified tasteless crap they sell as
tomatoes in the US any day.

randy