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Earendil 
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Posted: April 17 2013 at 18:19 |
 Bitterblogger wrote:
Grapes aren't getting any coverage here.
Concords can't be beat, except for the damned seeds 
Grapes are also best eaten frozen, unless you're having ambrosia. |
I haven't had frozen grapes, but frozen blackberries are heavenly. My aunt and uncle have bushes in their back yard, and they freeze pounds of them when they're ripe.
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Posted: April 17 2013 at 18:07 |
Grapes aren't getting any coverage here.
Concords can't be beat, except for the damned seeds
Grapes are also best eaten frozen, unless you're having ambrosia.
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Barbu
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Posted: April 16 2013 at 09:19 |
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Tasty.
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Eria Tarka
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Posted: April 16 2013 at 01:16 |
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Let's just say I'd rather eat other things
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Posted: April 15 2013 at 21:25 |
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I only learned to love tomatoes once I tasted homegrown (first from my father-in-law's garden, now our fledgling one). Supermarket tomatoes are a non-starter.
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Posted: April 15 2013 at 19:01 |
smartpatrol wrote:
DisgruntledPorcupine wrote:
I love both cherry and grape tomatoes. |
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Posted: April 15 2013 at 18:25 |
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I don't care for tomatoes to begin with but sometimes I'll make myself eat them in a salad.
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Posted: April 15 2013 at 16:17 |
Snow Dog wrote:
Triceratopsoil wrote:
Storebought tomatoes are disgusting regardless of the type.
Homegrown tomatoes are ok, the only ones I really care for though are the orange ones.
Ian - cherry tomatoes are the ones that are more spherical, not oblong |
My point is that they are not called that here. They are baby plum tomatoes as far as I can tell.
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Weird, usually we in Canadia follow the Kingdom's naming conventions
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Posted: April 15 2013 at 15:55 |
DisgruntledPorcupine wrote:
I love both cherry and grape tomatoes. |
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Posted: April 15 2013 at 15:52 |
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We grow our own. But I don't completely mind supermarket ones.
Edited by DisgruntledPorcupine - April 15 2013 at 15:52
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Posted: April 15 2013 at 13:35 |
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Option #1: "They are alright". Sour enough for me.
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HemispheresOfXanadu
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Posted: April 15 2013 at 13:21 |
Not a fan of any tomatoes unless they're cooked or in some kind of paste. 
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Posted: April 15 2013 at 13:13 |
Dean wrote:
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I haven't noticed supermarket tomatoes tasting any worse that greengrocer. I never buy in winter because they are awful. The best imo are summer imported from around the med. |
The taste of a tomato is determined more by temperature and smell than where they were bought. Supermarket toms are just as good as grocer-sold or home-grown if you buy ones that smell like tomatoes and serve them at room temperature. The thing to avoid is on-the-vine toms as what you are smelling there is the vine not the tomato.
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I'm not totally sold on vine toms anyway. A great tasting tomato is a rare find I think. My local Greengrocer swears by Dutch tomatoes while I have no time for them.
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Posted: April 15 2013 at 13:11 |
Snow Dog wrote:
I haven't noticed supermarket tomatoes tasting any worse that greengrocer. I never buy in winter because they are awful. The best imo are summer imported from around the med. |
The taste of a tomato is determined more by temperature and smell than where they were bought. Supermarket toms are just as good as grocer-sold or home-grown if you buy ones that smell like tomatoes and serve them at room temperature. The thing to avoid is on-the-vine toms as what you are smelling there is the vine not the tomato.
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Posted: April 15 2013 at 13:03 |
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I haven't noticed supermarket tomatoes tasting any worse that greengrocer. I never buy in winter because they are awful. The best imo are summer imported from around the med.
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Posted: April 15 2013 at 13:00 |
Triceratopsoil wrote:
Storebought tomatoes are disgusting regardless of the type.
Homegrown tomatoes are ok, the only ones I really care for though are the orange ones.
Ian - cherry tomatoes are the ones that are more spherical, not oblong |
My point is that they are not called that here. They are baby plum tomatoes as far as I can tell.
edit. Thanks Dean. Got there first.
Edited by Snow Dog - April 15 2013 at 13:01
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Posted: April 15 2013 at 12:58 |
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So they are like small plum tomatoes? Plum tomatoes are my favourite, so I’m sure I would love the baby variety (I’ve never seen it; I buy ordinary plum tomatoes at the marked whenever they’re available).
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Posted: April 15 2013 at 12:47 |
Triceratopsoil wrote:
Ian - cherry tomatoes are the ones that are more spherical, not oblong |
In the UK these are called cherry plum, baby plum or pomodorino (as plum tomatoes are also known as Pomodoro or Italian Tomatoes, the full Italian name would be Pomodorino del Piennolo).
I know they are a marketting ploy, a trendy fad, terribly kitch and stuplidly overpriced, but I really like Tomberries.
Edited by Dean - April 15 2013 at 12:49
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Posted: April 15 2013 at 12:44 |
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They are good for shutting the dog up and making the front door stick to the outside door.
But then again...I'm not really a tomato guy.
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Posted: April 15 2013 at 12:26 |
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I agree, the supermarket ones do tend to taste like newly cleaned windows.
Not to sidetrack this thread completely, yet here I go anyways..... I remember my childhood bedroom was situated so as my fathers tomato plants would climb inside my window whenever I opened it. The garden literally jumped in with all it's presence. Each summer my room smelled wonderfully fragrant of sun baked tomato.
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