# Fried Green Tomatoes - Which variety makes the best?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fried-green-tomatoes-which-variety-makes-the-best/831100>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 13, 2019, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fried-green-tomatoes-which-variety-makes-the-best/831100 "2019-03-13T23:17:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2019, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fried-green-tomatoes-which-variety-makes-the-best/831100/1 "2019-03-13T23:17:19Z")

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It’s getting onto Springtime, and the garden is calling. I know I’m going to be planting several varieties of tomato this year, and I know the wife loves her some fried green tomatoes. So I asked the Teeming Millions - which variety of tomato is the best in its green state? I’m willing to commit a pot to tomatoes that we never let ripen. It’s not like I’m lacking space.

Any help?

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fried-green-tomatoes-which-variety-makes-the-best/831100/2 "2019-03-14T19:19:26Z")

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Bump.

Anybody?

Bueller?

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**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2019, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fried-green-tomatoes-which-variety-makes-the-best/831100/3 "2019-03-14T20:13:56Z")

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Bradley Pink tomatoes make good fried ones. I grow Arkansas girls and Early girls and have fried many of them. They’re all good. You need a tomato that’s large even when green, IMO.

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**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2019, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fried-green-tomatoes-which-variety-makes-the-best/831100/4 "2019-03-15T02:07:05Z")

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Since green tomotoes, being unripe, don’t really have much, if any, flavor anyway, go for whatever will be the size you’re looking for.