Exactly the same experience for me. I can remember my surprise when I bit into a ripe, fresh, yellow heirloom at the instigation of friends that wouldn't shut

Exactly the same experience for me. I can remember my surprise when I bit into a ripe, fresh, yellow heirloom at the instigation of friends that wouldn't shut up about how good they were. I love _that_ sort of tomato, but every time I get some weird artificially delayed/ripened thing in the winter, no matter whether it is "on the vine" or not I am nauseated. I would say there is a faint rotting sea-food odor to them, especially to beef tomatoes.