- A glossy red, or occasionally yellow, pulpy edible fruit that is typically eaten as a vegetable or in salad.
- The bright red color of a ripe tomato.
A tomato is supposed to be something really good to eat. Supposed to be. Should be. Used to be. Now, only if you grow them yourself. I can't find a good tomato to buy anywhere I've looked.
I love tomatoes. I love tomato sauce. In fact, I would eat cooked tomato sauce like it was soup if I could. A sandwich is not a sandwich to me unless it has a couple of slices of tomato. Whenever I make a salad I put plenty of tomato slices in it. Well, I used to anyway.
Tomatoes used to taste really good. They were soft, juicy, full of flavor and could be added to many dishes. If fact, they were so juicy, they made a mess. Juice ran out everywhere when trying to cut them or slice them. Tomato juice all over my hands when slicing tomatoes. In the past, that is.
They first took our large, juicy tomatoes away and replaced them with cherry tomatoes. Then they downsized to grape tomatoes. Sad.
Now, the large, juicy tomatoes you find at every grocery store taste like cardboard. I saw where the store described as the flesh being "firm". Firm? You could pound nails with the tomatoes in the grocery store. You could wedge them under your car tires and use them instead of jack stands. You could play major league baseball with them. Firm? More like rock hard. Forget the Craftsman hammer, buy a tomato. Cheaper.
The only way to get a good tomato nowadays is to grow them yourself or have someone give you some from their garden.
It shouldn't be this way, but I suspect the growers genetically engineered them to ripen en route to the stores and last a long time in the store's bins. Its just not right, I say.
Sad.
Thanks for looking.
Dennis Mook
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We are sooooooo in agreement!
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