In article , Mike Lyle mike_lyle_uk@REMO
VETHISyahoo.co.uk writes
I detest the idea that tomatoes should be sweet: sugar is not
flavour. But I did once experimentally make a sweet pie with tomatoes
and sugar, as one might with apples or plums etc, just to see what
it'd be like. It was horrible.

I agree with that. There's a trend towards sweetness in lots of
foodstuffs, both grown and manufactured, mostly quite unnecessary and
spoiling the true flavour. If some sweetness is required either for
personal taste, or because the dish is too sharp, sugar can help, but we
tend to use honey in cases like that.
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Alan & Joan Gould - North Lincs.