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When I saw this picture[0] I instinctively reacted with: "Ew. What's wrong with their tomatoes?" Then I remembered that that's how all tomatoes used to look or
by desdiv 11y ago
When I saw this picture[0] I instinctively reacted with: "Ew. What's wrong with their tomatoes?"
Then I remembered that that's how all tomatoes used to look originally[1], and that their tomatoes probably taste way better than the neon-red freaks that I buy at the supermarket.
[0] https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*yVBQ_1SeMOk4kcib-qBNTA.jpeg https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*yVBQ_1SeMOk4kcib-q...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato#Modern_commercial_varieties https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato#Modern_commercial_varie...
- m_mueller 11y agoNot sure about the choice you typically get in a US supermarket, but speaking from experience living in Europe, it's really best to turn your intuitions upside down. Most vegetables and fruit just taste way better, the further they are from their common variant, since there was less chance to select taste out of them. So, for example with tomatoes go dark, yellow, oval shaped, 'deformed' ('oxen hearts' a.k.a. cuoro di bue). With carrots go yellow or dark.