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"Harold Walker" wrote in message ... wrote in message oups.com... 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 |
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