"Cricket" wrote in message news:Zhm%9.11132$yU6.8550@fe01...
Well, for what it's worth, our Garden Seed Catalog did extensive taste
trials (over 100 varieties) and here is what we came up with. . . .

Best flavor overall

1 Dr. Carolyn (a yellow cherry topped almost every single chart)

2 Eva Purple Ball (a pink extremely blemish free crack resistant variety,
but don't grow in cool moist regions)

3 Mule Team (a red)

4 Reisentraube (a red cherry)

5 Cherokee Purple (though not a beautiful one)

6 Tappy's Finest (a big pink like Brandywine Pink, but scored better in the
trial)

7 Brandywine OTV (a large red heirloom)

Oddly enough, there was one tomato that most folks didn't like but was the
out and out favorite of people that claimed they didn't usually like raw
tomatoes. In fact they liked it so much that they demanded to know what it
was (against the rules of the test until the final tally has been made.) It
was Golden Ponderosa.


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Cricket

"Anne Middleton/Harold Walker" wrote in message
news:ssa_9.90157$rM2.46168@rwcrnsc53...
Like beauty, the best tomato is in the eyes (mouth) of the beholder
(taster). It is easy to determine the best producer and the most desease
resistance etc. etc. ......these can established via trials but
"taste'...entirely a different animal altogether....the very best I can do
regards to taste is to determine what I like and go no further....I will
never say the one I like the best is THE BEST.......those that 'argue'
that
what they like has to be THE BEST leaves me with an opinion that I would
not
grace this site ....... or perhaps disgrace would be a better word.

Comments warmly welcomed on this cold day on Cape Cod

HW.



You know, it's a funny thing about the Cherokee Purple. I have tried
growing them twice. They have been disease prone (septoria mostly) and
not very productive. Also, the taste was okay but not up there with
Black Krim or Black Brandywine. What's funny about it is where I
live, yup, Tennessee, home of the Cherokee Purple.

Lee Hall
Zone 6B - Tennessee