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> But surely, you’ll object, tomatoes grown in small-scale gardens taste better. Not so! Double-blind tasting panels have been unable to pick out the greenhouse
by jmnicolas 11y ago
> But surely, you’ll object, tomatoes grown in small-scale gardens taste better. Not so! Double-blind tasting panels have been unable to pick out the greenhouse tomatoes as lacking in flavour, or tomatoes grown without fertiliser as more tasteful.
Maybe ... but there's a big difference between a store bought tomato that was stored in a fridge for months and a fresh tomato that comes out of the garden of my parents.
One is like eating cardboard with a strange texture, the other is actually an enjoyable experience even for someone that is not big on vegetables (OK fruits if you musts insist).
- squidfood 11y agoYup, this is one case where the "double-blind" takes out the actual variance in the experiment. I don't care about the carefully-controlled studies. The practical effect of including all aspects of the supply chain is that my personal supermarket's tomatoes are bland and mealy; the ones from my local farmers' market aren't.
- mistermann 11y agoHeirloom tomatoes from a farmers market cost 3x as much as grocery store tomatoes, and they're worth every penny.
- cc438 11y agoDid you miss the next sentence? "(T)aste is more dependent on the variety of tomato than on the way it is grown." The grocery store tomato is not the same varietal as the heirloom tomato grown in small scale gardens.
- Oletros 11y ago> but there's a big difference between a store bought tomato that was stored in a fridge for months and a fresh tomato that comes out of the garden of my parents. You're saying exactly the same that the article. It is not the way that it is grown, it tastes differently because they are picked before maturity. Take an organic tomato before it completely maturates and you will have the same insipid tomato.