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Halevi
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Topic: Is the tomato really a fruit? Hell no!@!!!! Posted: 23-Mar-2006 at 20:32 |
Tomatoes anywhere outside of Southern Europe or the Middle East SUCK.
(Actually, i bet Mexican tomatoes tase pretty good) ....... i
pity anyone whose only exposure to the amorous fruit has been through
grainy, oversized, tasteless North American varieties. Ponce, i
think maybe thats where youre prejudice is coming from? ...
perhaps?
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red clay
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Posted: 23-Mar-2006 at 20:53 |
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
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Posted: 23-Mar-2006 at 20:57 |
Originally posted by red clay
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 |
We have to orchestrate a taste test. This could prove logistically difficult.
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red clay
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Posted: 23-Mar-2006 at 21:57 |
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.
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Gyadu
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Posted: 24-Mar-2006 at 09:11 |
Originally posted by Ponce de Leon
Oh my goodness you say it is a compliment!!!
--Oh on the contrary, it is a huge lie!! Because remember remember remember remember!!! Tomatoes do not exsist!! they never have! and they never will!! |
I insist Tomatoes exist.One more proof.
http://www.jewschool.com/tomato_camp.gif
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The Canadian Guy
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Posted: 24-Mar-2006 at 09:27 |
Why did you put a link that is only that same picture.
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Gyadu
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Posted: 24-Mar-2006 at 09:36 |
Originally posted by The Canadian Guy
Why did you put a link that is only that same picture.
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Some people suffer from 0.50% Vision.
http://home.swipnet.se/med-humor/Double%20vision.gif
http://www.srcuk.org/images/manysol.JPG
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Ponce de Leon
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Posted: 24-Mar-2006 at 21:51 |
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.
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Posted: 25-Mar-2006 at 13:57 |
I think Gyadu has the tomato red fever
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Gyadu
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Posted: 26-Mar-2006 at 18:51 |
I'm back baby.....
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Posted: 26-Mar-2006 at 18:52 |
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
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Posted: 26-Mar-2006 at 21:33 |
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
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Five pages and [I think] ninety posts! On tomatoes! We -------
need to find lives?
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Posted: 26-Mar-2006 at 21:40 |
Maybe for the entire forum lol
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Posted: 26-Mar-2006 at 22:00 |
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
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Posted: 26-Mar-2006 at 22:17 |
Sigh! Shakespeare might have been right. Get a bunch of lawyers fooling around with something they little understand and look what you get!
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Posted: 26-Mar-2006 at 22:20 |
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!
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Hi dude you forgot to mention the golden errr.....tomato WORD.
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Posted: 26-Mar-2006 at 22:25 |
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Posted: 26-Mar-2006 at 22:28 |
TOMATO
This thread is about Tomatoes...remember....
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