Dawn ,'Beneath You'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Some buffista with the Cooking-Thing is scannning this portion of the thread and concocting a Perfect Bufistas Recipe.
Good luck. Just from the last 12 hours or so, I'd think that would be as difficult as the Perfect Buffista Artist search in Music some time back.
Interesting idea. An American Beefsteak t'mater is what I cut.
t adds several varieties of tomato to shopping list, because of the AR/OC thing
Oh, and the Israeli tomatoes are supposed to be great (according to, well, whomever actually likes the vile things), so it's definitely a 'me' thing.
Yeah, so you probably wouldn't mind most US tomatoes -- they have no smell, no flavor, and a completely different texture.
There are a lot of things I don't/can't eat because I don't like the smell, so I understand that, Nilly.
Attention!
Today is Mardi Gras/Fat Tuesday/Shrove Tuesday/the day before Ash Wednesday! Go get yourself a Paczki or two. Mmmmmm.
I always vaguely wondered, seeing them in grocery stores, if someone was trying to pull my leg, selling weeds as food.
Well, they're ferns not weeds. Or ARE ferns weeds?
Anything growing where you don't want it to is a weed, no?
Yeah, so you probably wouldn't mind most US tomatoes -- they have no smell, no flavor, and a completely different texture.
Maybe your city tomatoes are like that, but out here in tomato farm country tomatoes are all about the flavor.
From Steph's link...
"We're not even Polish," owner Mena Castriciano said.
BWAH!
erika, it's the flavor, too. There are a few things in the world that can get such a strong response from me like an innocent raw tomato.
so you probably wouldn't mind most US tomatoes -- they have no smell, no flavor, and a completely different texture
IIRC, I didn't come into any close encounter with a tomato when I was in the USA, so I couldn't check that. Next time, then.