Time for Bad Tomatoes... Again.
Friday, 12 June 2009 00:00
I know what you’re thinking. “It’s just about time for luscious, delicious home grown tomatoes.” Well, you’re right, if you’re looking in your backyard at your garden.
If you’re looking in the produce section at the grocery store, that’s not what you’ll see. Nope. Not a chance.
Instead, each year when the good tomatoes are starting to get ripe, our local grocery stores start to stock pinkish styrofoam baseballs advertised as “tomatoes”. They’re not red enough to be red, and not red enough to be even pink. No, they’re just barely red enough to be called “pinkish”. They’re not ripe, they’re hard. The meat isn’t good, it’s the texture of styrofoam, and here’s the real killer: they’ll be expensive.
Yes, just as home gardeners are being overrun with tons of ripe tomatoes looking for a home, the grocery stores will be stocking these nasty, inedible globes of insufficiency, and selling them for top dollar.
Why does this happen each year?
The answer eludes me. If I was in the grocery business, I’d be contracting with local folks to provide fresh, local, red tomatoes, instead of air freighting in these spheres of uselessness. But each year the local groceries fail in this endeavor.
Yes, it’s just about time for bad tomatoes… again.
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