I remember summers when I made whole meals of tomatoes on toast with lots of mayo, salt and pepper. We didn’t have much access to avocados then, but even in the grocery store you could get wonderful tomatoes.
Now, you have to have a friend with a garden ;-)
(When my FIL was alive, he would pack up his first tomatoes each year and mail them to us in a box from Pennsylvania. They almost always arrived in perfect condition. He was very proud of both his eating tomatoes and the ones he grew for sauce.)
-JT
Our tomatoes are just starting to ripen now. Husband planted 70 of them. Whew!