Why????
Cause we’re talkin’ QUALITY ‘maters...Not cheapies....
“...Not cheapies...”
If a product is purchased all over the world, and in the US by more than the combination of everyone else’s product, then someone must think it is good enough to consume. And since the product is listed in the DOW and S&P and according to the SF Chronicle, it is poised to go up, your Tennessee growers must be doing something wrong when the accumulate less than 3% of the total market. Appears to me the market is establishing which tomatoes are in demand. And California has been growing tomatoes for about 500 years from when they were brought up from Mexico by the Spaniards and the natives. Must be doing something right. And California doesn’t have to sell their product by saying they are better than everyone else’s. They are no better than, just more consumed than.
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