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2007-06-27 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Oh the horror - gene-modified tomatoes taste better

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Posted by lotp 2007-06-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Pleaaaaaaaase! The people who tasted the tomatoes were Americans. Given how vegetables in America are comerecialized (supermarket chains buying not to producers or even to local non-retial salers but tio nationwide chains, Americans have no chance at all to know how a tomato tastes.

I will take the study seriously when the sam:ple is formed of Italians or Spaniards. Preferrrently when it is formed of peoplle from small cities in tomazto producing regions.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-06-27 04:39|| 2007-06-27 04:39|| Front Page Top

#2 A great many people here grow their own tomatoes, JFM, precisely because the Holland-grown hothouse ones are so dreadful. There's no dearth of Americans who are very clear about what tomatoes are supposed to taste like.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-06-27 05:01|| 2007-06-27 05:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Heck, when I was stationed in Greece, I had friends who swore up and down they had always hated tomatoes... and then they came to Greece, and got to taste real tomatoes, and then it was a different story.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2007-06-27 08:04|| www.ncobrief.com]">[www.ncobrief.com] 2007-06-27 08:04|| Front Page Top

#4 We used to grow heritage varieties, a few plants each year. Baskets of tomatoes. Couldn't possibly transport them more than a few miles to market, but oh were they sweet and delicious!

I have seeds that are viable, just no time this year to have a garden. Next year, tho ...

Posted by lotp 2007-06-27 08:38|| 2007-06-27 08:38|| Front Page Top

#5 It's the same with carrots, there are crossbreeds that taste great, but the supermarkets don't handle them. Shop at the farm markets.

Posted by wxjames 2007-06-27 09:29|| 2007-06-27 09:29|| Front Page Top

#6 The farmer's market is the best way to go for good tasting veggies. Oletha corn.... Best in the world.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-06-27 10:34|| 2007-06-27 10:34|| Front Page Top

#7 Cross tomatoes with cucumbers.

Posted by KBK 2007-06-27 10:55|| 2007-06-27 10:55|| Front Page Top

#8 Surely that's haram, KBK.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-06-27 12:03|| 2007-06-27 12:03|| Front Page Top

#9 Cross tomatoes with cucumbers.

It has been already done in Holland. They look like tomatoes but taste like cucumbers.

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-06-27 12:32|| 2007-06-27 12:32|| Front Page Top

#10 This smacks of fixing past broken seed stock.

We grow stickily heirlooms. Screw the perfect hybrid's. I could care less if the tomatoes have spots and legs, just as long as they are real and not some poor tasting perfect skinned hollow shells.

Posted by Icerigger 2007-06-27 14:15|| 2007-06-27 14:15|| Front Page Top

#11 #9 JFM - When they invent a crossbreed that looks like a cucumber but tastes like a tomato, get back to me. ;-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-06-27 20:16|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2007-06-27 20:16|| Front Page Top

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