>Europeans complain that the tomatoes from greenhouses don't taste very tomatoey This has more to do with the varietal of tomato than the growing location. The

>Europeans complain that the tomatoes from greenhouses don't taste very tomatoey This has more to do with the varietal of tomato than the growing location. The most commercially viable tomatoes - the sort that grow fast, ripen quickly, can stand a bit of rough treatment and are hardy enough to last for a while on store shelves just generally don't taste that great. Heirloom tomatoes and other varieties that aren't optimized for industrialized food supply chains taste just fine, even grown in a greenhouse.