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Dean 
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 Posted: April 15 2013 at 13:11 |
 Snow Dog wrote:
I haven't noticed supermarket tomatoes tasting any worse that greengrocer. I never buy in winter because they are awful. The best imo are summer imported from around the med. |
The taste of a tomato is determined more by temperature and smell than where they were bought. Supermarket toms are just as good as grocer-sold or home-grown if you buy ones that smell like tomatoes and serve them at room temperature. The thing to avoid is on-the-vine toms as what you are smelling there is the vine not the tomato.
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Snow Dog
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Posted: April 15 2013 at 13:13 |
Dean wrote:
Snow Dog wrote:
I haven't noticed supermarket tomatoes tasting any worse that greengrocer. I never buy in winter because they are awful. The best imo are summer imported from around the med. |
The taste of a tomato is determined more by temperature and smell than where they were bought. Supermarket toms are just as good as grocer-sold or home-grown if you buy ones that smell like tomatoes and serve them at room temperature. The thing to avoid is on-the-vine toms as what you are smelling there is the vine not the tomato.
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I'm not totally sold on vine toms anyway. A great tasting tomato is a rare find I think. My local Greengrocer swears by Dutch tomatoes while I have no time for them.
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HemispheresOfXanadu
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Posted: April 15 2013 at 13:21 |
Not a fan of any tomatoes unless they're cooked or in some kind of paste. 
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Dayvenkirq
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Posted: April 15 2013 at 13:35 |
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Option #1: "They are alright". Sour enough for me.
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DisgruntledPorcupine
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Posted: April 15 2013 at 15:52 |
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We grow our own. But I don't completely mind supermarket ones.
Edited by DisgruntledPorcupine - April 15 2013 at 15:52
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smartpatrol
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Posted: April 15 2013 at 15:55 |
DisgruntledPorcupine wrote:
I love both cherry and grape tomatoes. |
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Triceratopsoil
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Posted: April 15 2013 at 16:17 |
Snow Dog wrote:
Triceratopsoil wrote:
Storebought tomatoes are disgusting regardless of the type.
Homegrown tomatoes are ok, the only ones I really care for though are the orange ones.
Ian - cherry tomatoes are the ones that are more spherical, not oblong |
My point is that they are not called that here. They are baby plum tomatoes as far as I can tell.
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Weird, usually we in Canadia follow the Kingdom's naming conventions
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zappaholic
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Posted: April 15 2013 at 18:25 |
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I don't care for tomatoes to begin with but sometimes I'll make myself eat them in a salad.
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zeqexes
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Posted: April 15 2013 at 19:01 |
smartpatrol wrote:
DisgruntledPorcupine wrote:
I love both cherry and grape tomatoes. |
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Padraic
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Posted: April 15 2013 at 21:25 |
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I only learned to love tomatoes once I tasted homegrown (first from my father-in-law's garden, now our fledgling one). Supermarket tomatoes are a non-starter.
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Eria Tarka
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Posted: April 16 2013 at 01:16 |
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Let's just say I'd rather eat other things
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Barbu
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Posted: April 16 2013 at 09:19 |
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Tasty.
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Bitterblogger
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Posted: April 17 2013 at 18:07 |
Grapes aren't getting any coverage here. Concords can't be beat, except for the damned seeds  Grapes are also best eaten frozen, unless you're having ambrosia.
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Earendil
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Posted: April 17 2013 at 18:19 |
Bitterblogger wrote:
Grapes aren't getting any coverage here.
Concords can't be beat, except for the damned seeds
Grapes are also best eaten frozen, unless you're having ambrosia. |
I haven't had frozen grapes, but frozen blackberries are heavenly. My aunt and uncle have bushes in their back yard, and they freeze pounds of them when they're ripe.
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