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”
Toughened up for shipping and appearance, I’ll bet.
Pretty much, yes. When farm workers started going on strike, research was started to find a tomato that could withstand machine picking (actually more like machine shaking the plant until the tomatoes fell off). Alas, the tomato that resulted lost a lot of its flavor.