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Big, Red and Tasteless: Why Tomatoes Lost Their Flavor
Live Science ^
| 26JAN17
| Laura Geggel, Senior Writer
Posted on 04/04/2017 4:44:54 PM PDT by vannrox
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To: vannrox
Grow your own, at least for 2-3 months you can eat tasty tomatoes, or is it tomatos :)
To: vannrox
Only two things that money cain’t buy,
That’s true love an home growed tomaters.
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posted on
04/05/2017 7:00:12 AM PDT
by
MileHi
(Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
To: central_va
The PER unit cost of picking fruit/veg is almost nothing.
Apparently the savings were enough to justify the cost of the machines that replaced the pickers. There might also be the time factor as well—the machine might be able to work several fields in one day that the gang of workers it replaced could do in a week. The long-term trend in agriculture going back to the 19th century has been to replace lots of workers with few machines. And we end up with tomatoes that have no flavor.
To: hanamizu
Apparently the savings were enough to justify the cost of the machines that replaced the pickers. Only if you like leather fruit and veggies that are tasteless. They give us no options. Tasteless, tough crappy fruit isn't cheap at any price.
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posted on
04/05/2017 7:58:24 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: central_va
leather fruit and veggies that are tasteless.
I wonder though how much of the flavor and texture has been lost due to changes brought about by disease/pesticide resistance, etc.
And depending on the part of the country you live in, there are still small operations that produce the real deal in vegetables/fruit.
To: Mad Dawgg
You’re right, but I live in an apartment with no ground to plant in
well, there is some, but they put so many chemicals on the lawns, I can’t even grow catnip out there for His Macho Majesty . Gotta go with what Trader Joe and my local, family-owned health market provides.
And hey, Mad Dawgg, don’t forget the exercise part of the equation
get out there, go to the gym, do interval training.
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posted on
04/05/2017 8:59:38 AM PDT
by
Veto!
(Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
To: Rannug
Peanut butrer and tomatoes? That ain’t right.
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posted on
04/05/2017 8:59:55 AM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
To: vannrox
I believe the Texas Democrat Jim Hightower published a book called Hard Tomatoes, Hard Times in the 1970s, about how tomatoes were being altered to increase corporations' profit margins, but at the expense of the quality of the tomatoes.
To: Veto!
'Youre right, but I live in an apartment with no ground to plant in
well, there is some, but they put so many chemicals on the lawns, I cant even grow catnip out there for His Macho Majesty ."I also live in an apartment building I have no yard whatsoever but a kind old lady I met on the internets showed me the way. I use a sytem called "grow Buckets" or "Earth Buckets" and homemade carts to move them in and out of the warehouse part of our building. (Local ordinance says I can leave stuff on sidewalk during day as long as people can walk past them easily but sidewalks must be cleared at night)
If you have a balcony or porch that is open to the sun you just need the buckets.
Here is how to make them: DIY Hydro Grow Buckets
BTW I get around 40 lbs (or more) of tomatoes per bucket and the sidewalk they are on is on the west side of the building so I don't get a full days worth of direct sunlight.
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posted on
04/05/2017 9:21:21 AM PDT
by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
To: Bigg Red
Peanut butrer and tomatoes? That aint right.
Come one, man up and try it.
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posted on
04/05/2017 12:42:39 PM PDT
by
Rannug
(When you're dead, you're dead. Until then fight with everything you have.)
To: HotHunt
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posted on
04/05/2017 3:32:16 PM PDT
by
Williams
(Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
To: Mad Dawgg
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posted on
04/05/2017 3:49:27 PM PDT
by
Zirondelle
("disce aut discede")
To: Rannug
I can’t man up; I’m a woman. :)
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posted on
04/05/2017 4:14:24 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
To: Bigg Red
But aren’t you superior to us, the weaker sex?
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posted on
04/05/2017 9:03:07 PM PDT
by
Rannug
(When you're dead, you're dead. Until then fight with everything you have.)
To: Zirondelle
Heirloom beefsteak this year (the same type that are pictured) and also have some seeds from a local guy who claims they are a variety called red hearts that cannot be purchased any more. (He said the seed company catalog that he used to buy them out of quit selling them back in the 90s.) He said when he has tried to buy “red hearts “ from other seed companies they never turned out the same and looked and tasted totally different.
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posted on
04/05/2017 10:37:59 PM PDT
by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
To: Rannug
This gal does not subscribe to that nonsense. I think men are great, and I believe in the traditional roles for men and women. But I am an old lady, so I guess my vote doesn’t count in most quarters.
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posted on
04/06/2017 5:52:22 AM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
To: vannrox
To: greeneyes
To: acapesket
I grow Heirlooms only.
Same here!
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posted on
04/08/2017 1:52:54 PM PDT
by
painter
( Isaiah: �Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
To: vannrox
I grew several varieties of tomatoes last year and although they did not get enough sun (we have and will cut a few more trees), they were so tasty compared to anything in the store. They were older varieites, can’t remember what though.
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posted on
04/08/2017 3:13:42 PM PDT
by
little jeremiah
(Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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