On 20/5/05 8:53, in article , "June
Hughes" wrote:

In message , Sacha
writes
On 18/5/05 2:58 pm, in article NRHie.1405514$6l.1138425@pd7tw2no, "graham"
wrote:


"Harold Walker" wrote in message
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AFAIK thay are tomatoes allowed to ripen naturally, most tomatoes in
the shops are picked green, then artificially ripened when they arrive
in the UK. They certainly do ahve a much nicer taste that the
equivalent loose ones.

Mike
I find this interesting....how long have they been imported this way in
the UK...for many years on the western edges of the big puddle tomatoes
have been shipped from Florida to the north via a lorry filled with
ethylene gas...by the time they arrive up north they too have been
converted from green to red...taste wis would just as soon eat cardboard.
We too now have the 'vine ripened' ones. While better than the lorry
ripened ones they are still far from the local or home grown
jobbies....but not worth the asking price....H


My local supermarket (in Calgary) often has Dutch ones! The cost of flying
them that far must be horrendous!
Graham


And they taste of nothing. I *never* buy Dutch tomatoes!

You must have bought them at some time or other to know they taste of
nothing.

Oh well done, June - a typically useful post. If you want to descend to
that level - I have been given them to eat by others. Okay?
--

Sacha
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