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grow your own in the summer or buy from a neighboring farmer...
its like the red "delicious" apple....omg...like cardboard...awful...tasteless...but it was bred so it would be easy to ship....easy to pack...uniform....
but its only uniform to me is its horrible taste.....
The bland, sterile, and cardboard-tasting tomato is the result of what happens when well-meaning people tries to improve something.
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Toughened up for shipping and appearance, I’ll bet.
(cue) “Red Rubber Ball”
Nothing better than a Jersey tomato!
Until their last few years my parents always had a garden.
I don’t know the exact reason but home grown vegetables are way, way better than commercial ones.
Excellent article...Thx for posting...
It’s an interesting story.
One of the reasons American vegetables are not as tasty is that American consumers don’t care enough to select sweet ones.
In countries like Japan and France, where the culinary tastes of consumers is more demanding, the fruits/vegetables are better.
So it’s all in our collective power to change the situation. Maybe this is another problem Trump can help us solve!
I have a quiz that I will answer to when I get a few responses.
There is a sure fire way to tell if a tomato is sweet or not (short of tasting it or cutting into it). What is that method?
Fruit: In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants formed from the ovary after flowering.
Nothing about sweetness in there. A zucchini is a fruit too.
They used to eat tomatoes with sugar because they were sour.
1st, someone needs a grammar lesson and 2nd, even the hybrid tomatoes are great but only if they truly ripen on the vine.
This will tell you what happened to the tomato.
http://www.ritterfarms.com/graingercountytomato.html
My favorite variety is Japanese tomatoes, which are very tasty. They're more pink than red. A vendor at my local farmer's market used to sell them.
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These so-called "love apples" are a waste of money......and useless as a part of one's regular produce purchases....as they used to be in the good old days.
I don't buy them anymore. I haven't had a decent tomato, home-grown or store-bought since relocating years ago from Illinois (where I grew luscious Beefsteaks in my garden) to Florida.
(sigh....)
Leni
Save your BBQ ash if you are a hardwood BBQer that is
How to sweeten tomatoes
Tomato plants do well in slightly acidic soil, but once the fruits start ripening, you can increase the alkalinity of the soil for sweeter tomatoes. Wood ash is the preferred agent for raising pH levels because it supplies potassium too, a mineral known to increase the production of sugars and their transport to fruits. It can also increase the production of lycopene, the carotenoid behind the antioxidant power of tomatoes.
Another option is the application of limestone/dolomite which also adds calcium and magnesium to the soil. Home gardeners often use baking soda as a quick fix solution to reduce the tartness of tomatoes.
I live adjacent to a 200 acre tomato farm that grows romas for the grocery stores. They pick them green and ship to one chain’s mega warehouse where they are refrigerated then gassed to turn them red at a later date.
The pickers toss the red ones on the ground and we can take as many red ones off the bushes as we want but we don’t because they are they have zero flavor.
Peaches used to be soft, sweet and delicious. Now all the best go into cans while the seconds go to the grocery store - hard bitter and generally inedible.
There was an article a year or so back about how your body processes food. If a food ‘smells right’ your body utilizes it best, If not right, then the food is not properly digested. A tomato, a peach should smell like a tomato or a peach. Now days what you find in the store barely has any scent.
Meanwhile, the fish counter smells strongly because of improper display and storage of fish & shellfish. With fresh fish & shellfish, there should be only a very faint salty ocean smell, else it is decaying/rotting.
KNOWLEDGE IS KNOWING THAT A TOMATO IS A FRUIT
WISDOM IS NOT PUTTING IT IN A FRUIT SALAD
PHILOSPHY IS WONDERING WHETHER THAT MEANS KETCHUP IS A SMOOTHIE