>"kilikini" writes:
>
>>"SportKite1" wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > The cost of having a nice tomato & lettuce salad/sandwich,has gone
>> >way up.
>>
>> Perhaps the price of having a BLT has gone up, but having a NICE tomato is
>> nonexistent. They are the worse tasting pieces of drek I've seen in
>>years....at ANY price.
>
>I agree, they're orange instead of red and they're always hard. Good luck
>finding vine ripened these days.

Vine ripened is a myth... those I pick a couple of days early and allow to
ripen on the kitchen counter are actually as good or better than those picked
fully ripe, certainly better than 'drops', those that fully ripen and drop
off... they quite edible and very tasty but are then better suited for cooking,
for by the time they are fully vine ripened their texture suffers for slicing.

Even those sold "on-the-vine" ('bout 4-5 still attached to a vine) are lousy,
they are bright red and look perfect, perhaps too perfect (perhaps genetically
engineered)... but they are watery rather than juicy (slice one open and lots
of clear fluid gushes out), the flesh has a weird texture, gelatinous-chalky
(kinda like tofu), and they have no flavor whatsoever (again, like tofu). And
the "on-the-vine" tomatoes are kinda expensive ($3.99/lb), save your money.
When I can't have my own home growns or locally grown from farm stands I don't
eat tomatoes, other than canned. Stupidmarket tomatoes are strains specifcally
developed to withstand shipping/storage, not eating/enjoying. I've even seen
square tomatoes, cube shaped with flat sides, horticulturally engineered
nightmares so that more will fit into a crate, but flavorless and even more
cardboard-like than the typical stupidmarket specimens.

Anyone wants good tomatoes they really need to grow their own.


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