Their colour is so misleading, because red food should be like really tangy and strong. Either sweet like a strawberry or cranberry, or savoury like ketchup. Tomatoes taste like they should be a pale green or yellow, but they’re red. It’s fucked up.

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    tomatoes

    Honestly, grocery store tomatoes are shit. A homegrown tomato is one of my favorite things on the planet. I grow them in my backyard so i can eat them right off the vine. Theres green ones, red ones, pink ones, purple ones, yeller ones, etc.

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        Same, I hated tomatoes before that and now I get giddy thinking about tomato season! My mom happened to grow some grape tomatoes and it wad life changing, the sungold variety are my fave. I am very lucky to live in a place with a lot of local farms so I get the good goods. I suck at growing them lol

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          Its another one of those things that people overlook; a tomato is a tomato is a tomato. Until they have one, and then realize what they’ve been missing out on. My mother grows tomatoes, peppers, and loofa squash every year, and has since i was a baby. I picked it up from her around the time my kiddos were toddlers and maybe my kids will pick it up from me when they get old enough.

          Tomatoes can be finicky. Certain varieties make me wanna stomp on my hat, and other varieties i can just toss in a hole in the sand, forget about them, and theyll just go bonkers producing fruit.

          I usually end up giving about half of them away to a couple from Paraguay who live two doors down and grow maybe six or eight different variety of bananas. Theyve been trying to talk me into canning and preserving what i dont eat, but my mind has decided that it requires actual work, and im not having that shit. I like our current arrangement, i give them tomatoes and they give me bananas.