Posted on 07/22/2025 10:24:12 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
No reason for us to have ever imported tomatoes from Mexico.
Does this mean we might get store tomatoes that actually tast like tomatoes? I haven’t had one in decades...
Are they going to do avocados too? Or has California destroyed their avocado industry?
please grow and sell an actual tomato
what they sell in the stores is fraud
pink tasteless crap
Unlikely, probably still the same watery taste with the mere hint of tomato flavor
I grow and can my own.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/us-withdraws-tomatoes-agreement-with-mexico-2025-07-14/
Unlike many other tariffs the markup on tomatoes is not very great and they are a perishable product... so the the tariff will be passed on to consumers almost immediately. My wife and I do not eat a lot of tomatoes so don't have any skin in this game. But I still am not sure that this increase in taxation on consumers is a good thing.
“”please grow and sell an actual tomato
what they sell in the stores is fraud
pink tasteless crap””
And it’s not even the tasteless part that so bad. It’s the “texture”. Sometimes almost rubbery. Yuk.
When my father in law was alive, he’d send us a box of his first tomatoes every year. I doubt I’ll ever taste one like those again.
Buy it from a farmer. It’s not that complicated.
I grow mine from seed. Much cheaper than buying plants and I get to choose the varieties. I grow mostly yellow and low acid tomatoes. The higher acid tomatoes may have a slightly better taste but the trade off is stomach acid reflux from ingestion of them. I mix and match.
That’s right. We can gas unripe American tomatoes with ethylene to turn them red flavorless lumps just as well, if not better, than it can be done with Mexican tomatoes!
“...the tariff will be passed on to consumers almost immediately...”
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I did not click on the article,
but even just the excerpt disagrees with you.
I do prefer home grown fruits and vegetables. But unless you are canning them which is getting to be a lost art... you can't have fresh fruits and vegetables very much of the time in most parts of the country unless they came from some other area.
As far as taste goes... you are just dating yourself. The older I get the less I can taste anything. I was a finicky kid, but now I can eat just about everything. Most oldsters who claim to have a refined pallet can't tell the taste of any fresh vegetables apart, let alone tomatoes from Mexico vs tomatoes from Arizona, or even tomatoes from Aunt Bee's garden when she has them.
I grow my own in containers on the patio, cucumbers too
This time of year simply open back door and pick them fresh
In winter grow them indoors in a container near sunny window
“It’s only been two days now, and we actually have a lot more calls of people having interest in doing business — and the price hasn’t even changed.”
Sure... Let them grow them instead of fixing the market by “paying them not to grow them” and this is absolutely the case.
No, it does not!
And GOUT...
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