I hate tomatoes with no taste. The heirloom tomatoes are pretty good. Most tomatoes in restaurants are tomato shaped objects - totally undeserving of classification as tomatoes. They are bred for durability and taste suffers.
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I hate tomatoes with no taste. The heirloom tomatoes are pretty good. Most tomatoes in restaurants are tomato shaped objects - totally undeserving of classification as tomatoes. They are bred for durability and taste suffers.
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Tomato shaped objects - well said.Originally Posted by Shawn Pixley
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I like mine sliced with mayo between 2 slices of bread, add salt and pepper. Glass of iced tea is optional but preferred.
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When it comes to store- or restaurant-bought tomatoes, I eat 'em. Home-grown? I enjoy eating them. Still picking them out of our garden, too--we had a great crop this year, plus our church has a huge community garden, so we had even more varieties. Grape, pear, cherry, roma, early bird, yellow girl, and a bunch of others I don't recall.
Now, do we need to start another thread on hot peppers? Wooooooo! Blblblblblblblblb!
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Romas are my favorite
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The most popular crop growing in home gardens is tomatoes and has been for years.Tomatoes are the only reason I grow a garden. This year I tried a couple heirloom varieties and wasn't impressed. Purple Cherokee were sweeter than I like, prone to cracking, and just not that great of a tomato for my taste.
My wife likes the sweet ones. This year we have the Purple Cherokee and it is one that is all hers.
I have a yellow cherry that I thought was Gold Nugget, but it seems a bit different this year since it doesn't crack as much and the flavor is a bit better imo.
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I love tomatoes but can't remember the last time I had a good one. We have to buy ours from the store but even the stuff they say is home grown here in Missouri isn't good--no flavor. I'm from Ohio and I remember, like somebody else said, they didn't always make it to the kitchen from the garden.
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