Is the tomato really a fruit? Hell no!@!!!!

 

   It must be a case of what you are used to or grew up with, because I have tasted the european and middle east grown tomatos, and they are really awful,  Tough, woody and seedy.  The tomato you are referring to from NA could be of the Hydroponic type.  Pale, tasteless with weak meat. The field grown Jersey tomato[rutgers, beefmaster etc.] is superior to any grown anywhere including  elsewhere in the us. [biased?] of course I am, but accurate also.

 

BTW- early colonists called them love apples and thought them poisonous

 

    The logistics could be worked out.  If they can ship live maine lobsters to germany we can ship tomatos just about anywhere. The rub is, field grown jerseys won't be available until late june early july.  I'm up for it just the same.

Why did you put a link that is only that same picture.

Obviously this is another attack from the liberal agenda to make people believe in what they call "the truth." I am not saying that tomatoes do not exsist "per say." I am only saying that the real tomato is not the fruit(vegtable, alien etc.) but the tomato in our hearts. ANd that is what i am trying to let everyone know.

---Also those pictures...they..just offend me as an American.

I think Gyadu has the tomato red fever

I hope you know that you and me are the only ones that tick each other off about tomatoes.

--Any way i think i am responsible for this tomato monster

Originally posted by Ponce de Leon I hope you know that you and me are the only ones that tick each other off about tomatoes. --Any way i think i am responsible for this tomato monster

 

          Five pages and [I think] ninety posts! On tomatoes! We -------

       need to find lives?                            

The article is really long.

I Say Tomayto, You Say Tomahto...

Sam Cox
December, 2000

The United States Congress passed the Tariff Act of 1883, a rather innocuous piece of legislation requiring a 10% tax on imported vegetables, in response to growing international trade. Just a few short years later, a tomato importer evaluated the law closely, and decided to challenge it on the botanical grounds that a tomato was in fact technically a fruit, not a vegetable, and should therefore be exempt from said tax. John Nix's case posed merit enough to land the case before the Supreme Court in 1893. In Nix vs Hedden, 149 U.S. 304 (1893), Justice Gray wrote, "Botanically speaking, tomatoes are fruits of a vine, just as are cucumbers, squashes, beans, and peas. But in the common language of the people...all these are vegetables, which are grown in kitchen gardens, and which, whether eaten cooked or raw, are, like potatoes, carrots, parsnips, turnips, beets, cauliflower, cabbage, celery and lettuce, usually served at dinner in, with or after the soup, fish or meats which constitute the principal part of the repast, and not, like fruits generally, as dessert [1]." The court rejected the botanical truth that the tomato is in fact a monstrously sized berry, and deferred to the culinary vernacular of vegetable to describe it. Thus is tax yet paid on imported tomatoes.

http://lamar.colostate.edu/~samcox/Tomato.html

Originally posted by red clay         Sigh! Shakespeare might have been right.  Get a bunch of lawyers fooling around with something they little understand and look what you get!

Hi dude you forgot to mention the golden errr.....tomato WORD.

TOMATO

 

 

This thread is about Tomatoes...remember....