My sister grows tomatoes for a Farmers Market. The variety she grows are very firm, good looking and tasteless. They were bred to stay tougher and smash less for shipment. They are red and look good but that is all. She gave me some seeds and even grown in the garden are tasteless.
I won’t advertise for a certain brand but we have experimented with several varieties and have found some with great flavor. Never use Romas for tomato sauce. They are tasteless.
Go to a country where they pick and sell fresh pineapple. WOW.
Firm, good looking and tasteless. You hit the nail on the head.
These tomatoes have no taste because they have no smell.
Grocery store hybrids are engineered to withstand rough handling by customer, picking equipment, transportation, etc, etc.
Grocery store hybrids have a high flesh to juice ratio.
Heirloom tomatoes have a high juice to flesh ratio.
Drop and heirloom and you gotta eat it as it will turn to mush.
Grocery store hybrids are not the same as your typical homegrown variety such as your Better Boys.
I, too, am a hobby tomato grower.
During a typical growing season I plant some 50 heirlooms and 50 Better Boy hybrids.
The hybrids carry me into the fall season as most, not all, but most heirlooms are dead
from the bacteria in the soil before the end of the season.