I love tomatoes. Every summer, I grow a few in my garden, and they are a treat. But even in winter, supermarket ones will do in a pinch. Great stuff!
Yup - it is definitely possible to grow tomatoes in the tropics, IF you have the right varieties. We’re probably going to move to a new house in the same city (Jakarta) and the new house has garden space. I’m going to give it a try - the worst that happens is that I end up with some stalky plants but no fruit. And if I’m lucky and get some tomatoes…mmmmmmmmmm…
This picture of a tomato sammich makes me hungry for summertime.
I love tomatoes. I get the Campari brand tomatoes for snacking all the time, and heirlooms occasionally too, but I find that heirlooms and unusual varieties from the farmer’s market can be very hit and miss.
Between April and August fresh tomatoes are quite possibly my favorite food. Outside of that time zone I tend to avoid them unless they have been cooked.
At the height of summer my wife and I leave a bowl of cherry tomatoes on the counter to just grab as snacks as we pass through a room and eat tomato sandwiches at least twice a week.
Life without tomatoes is not worth living! Period.
The event that ranks right up there with Christmas morning with the kids is the first day I can go to the Farmers’ Market and get a loaf of potato bread from the Amish woman, some locally raised and hickory smoked bacon, and a nice picked that morning tomato and some fresh local lettuce.
The day fresh sweet corn comes in ranks close as well.
Fresh tomatoes from my garden are perfect, by themselves or in a BLT. I take them to work to eat as dessert. And I like processed ones just fine also.
But I can see why people who have only eaten store varieties wondering what the fuss is about.
Tomatoes look like Hitler…I’m just sayin’
I do.
Not just like them, but need them. If I go too long without some form of tomato in my diet I start feeling icky. Hard to explain the feeling, but when I feel it I know some stewed tomatoes or spaghetti will make me feel better.
Supermarket tomatoes with decent to good flavor (a few very good cherry/grape/small varieties) have become more common in recent years. I grow excellent-tasting cherry tomatoes, but I wish there was a reliable way to get really tasty full-sized ones. There must be a perfect combination of soil, fertilizer, water and climate, but i’ve yet to discover it.
This year I am growing Artisan Sunrise Bumble Bee (the Artisan series has really flavorful cherry tomatoes) and Brandywine (which didn’t overly impress me the other time I grew it years ago, but maybe this is the year).
People who complain tomatoes are too “acidic” are wusses.
What does this mean? They taste better when grown on the edge of drought?
fresh tomatoes YES! love ‘em, cut a big ol’ beefsteak (or any tomato other than grape or cherry tomato really0 into wedges, a little salt, maybe a dash of pepper and served with a side of cucumber rounds, mmmmmm, grape tomatoes are a summer time staple in my lunch box. favorite summer weekend snack, several fresh tomato slices, a bit of onion, couple of dill pickle slices and a leaf of lettuce on a sandwich
sigh, ketchup/catsup blech. light on the pizza sauce please! maaaaaybe a small portion of tomato paste in a soup for flavor. nope, don’t really care for cooked/processed tomatoes.
The tomater haters in the other thread can send them my way.
Another month and it’s finally planting time! (happy Snoopy dance)
Oh, yes, I love tomatoes in all forms.
I saw the other thread when it was new, and had to bite my tongue to refrain from declaring there that anyone who hates tomatoes is both genetically and morally inferior.
Love tomatoes, but is there any vegetable sold in grocery stores that is as tasteless? I can’t think of any that differ as much form “the real thing” as supermarket tomatoes. If all I ever had was those, I’d probably think I didn’t like them.
I like fresh tomatoes with/in/on stuff. Salad, sandwiches, fresh tomato pieces scattered over a pizza just out of the oven. Just by themselves, not my thing, but they are a fine addition to appropriate food.
When I was a young-un, I used to always order tomato juice at the Woolworths lunch counter or where ever I could get it. Then one evening, mom served up a tomato aspic with dinner. Might not have been so bad but that she made it with green bell pepper, that vile mutant thing that has made me cringe and gag all my life. That put me off the juice evermore.
Same here. Romas are yummy. My dad used to get annoyed at me when I was younger because he’d buy them and I’d end up eatting them all before he could use them.
This.
I’ll eat supermarket-style tomatoes (or, similarly, fast-food tomato slices on my burgers) if they’re served to me, but not with any enthusiasm, and I rarely buy them myself unless I suspect that they’re better than usual.
OTOH, really ripe tomatoes, from farm stands usually (or a neighbor’s tomato patch) are not in a class at all with supermarket cruft.
The same is true, by the way, of pineapples.
And bananas as I found out in Costa Rica.
OMG Yes! With corn on the cob, cole slaw, potato salad, and something hot and juicy fresh off the grill. Pass them t’maters!