Jeez, really?

Nope, they're currently only offering cherry, grape, and vine-on. (And when I was ordering yesterday, they had run out of both grape and vine-on.)

I can think in the metric system for small quantities, like the sizes we dealt with in science classes, but not for bigger quantities.

I woke up achy all over. My back, my shoulders, my arms, my neck, and achy. Must have slept funny or something.

I has tomatoes.

I went to the public market and bought directly from a farmer, though.

I cannot think in the metric system at all, which is sort of a pain because I think it would be easier to adjust sewing patterns if things were divisible by 10. But I am really good at dividing 1/4's of inches.

We convert back and forth all the time!

Wow, that's such a layer of difficulty - not the converting, of course, but the not-having-intuition-regarding-sizes. I know that I need to convert in my head before I can even begin to imagine how large a whatever-inches-long something is. It's like I need to count in another language - I know the numbers, but I wanna say them in the *right* way (which is, of course, Hebrew).

My mom, after more than 30 years in Israel and in Hebrew, still counts in French.

Someone once commented that if the US ever converts to the metric system the only people who'll be comfortable with it will be scientists and drug dealers.

Hee.

Insert obligatory fresh-tomatoes-are-evil remark here. I hope it at least sends some ~ma Dana's way, because IIRC she is very right in thinking that, too.

Insert obligatory fresh-tomatoes-are-evil remark here.

Oh yeah, you would be thrilled!

Oh yeah, you would be thrilled!

Well, I love it when I have stuff from my salad to joyfully share with everyone I may be eating with, so the existence of tomatoes is not entirely evil in and of itself. But since usually I'm ignorant of the possibility of purchasing - let alone eating - such vile things, I wouldn't notice it if they're completely gone from the markets.

In short, there are plenty of tomatoes here. I wish I could share them with all y'all who miss them.

I can think in the metric system for small quantities, like the sizes we dealt with in science classes, but not for bigger quantities.

Same here. Also, very large ones. I think (warning! science-free speculation ahead!) that we form pretty deeply ingrained notions of the kinds of measures we use from day to day -- I have a gut feeling for what it is to be THIS height, or to walk THAT far, and the labels for those things (not the exact height, but the kind of range people happen in) are something I've known for almost as long as I've known stuff. Whereas something measured in microns? Whatever, call it whatever you want, since it's a step removed anyway; and so the translation from familiar to unfamiliar units isn't part of the process.

I can think in the metric system for small quantities, like the sizes we dealt with in science classes, but not for bigger quantities.

Australia converted to metric not long before I was born, which meant that Imperial measures were still in common usage while I was growing up. As a result I'm fairly comfortable with both systems.

When I went to the farmers' market last week, they had a big sign saying, "None of our tomatoes have even VISITED Florida".