OH, DEAR GOD, SPARE US!
Message 21214328
For as much of the year as possible, I buy locally grown organic tomatoes (they have taste, a very important thing for me in a tomato).
Yeah. Here in CA, fresh locally grown tomatoes are available a few months of the year. I hate to think what happens in the NE or northern plains states.
In the off-season, I buy hydroponically grown tomatoes that are also local.
Oh. For starters, "hydroponic" = organic? Is she serious????
Sometimes in winter I will also buy tomatoes from Mexico, but they are organic as well, and none of them are GMO tomatoes.
Forget sending Granny to Europe. If she thinks Mexican produce is organically grown, I've got some bridges to sell her.
The problem with modern tomatoes is that the concept that tomatoes should be created for shelf life and nonbruisability takes all the flavor away. Tomatoes--and other produce too--should be grown locally. You should eat what is in season in your neck of the woods for the most part.
In most of the country most of the year, that means you don't eat fruit and vegetables. I hate to think what most Canadians would have to do. Go on the Atkins diet, I guess.
Cooked tomatoes are full of lycopene, which is great for your body. So if you must have tomatoes in the dead of winter, eat canned ones or make spaghetti sauce or something.
Does Granny know that even non-organic yomatoes contain lycopene?
There is absolutely no eventuality when choosing a tomato crossed with a fish gene is a good or necessary thing to do.
Now there is a piece of sheer unsubstantiated speculation that is hard to match.
BUT it gets better!
I don't think it's really true what you say about people wanting to get tomatoes home before they rot, to the extent that they will compromise flavor.
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