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Janet Bostwick Janet Bostwick is offline
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Default What's up with "Tomatos on the Vine"?

notbob wrote:
> On 2008-04-08, Steve Pope > wrote:
>
>> pull of the stems and leave them there, taking only the caps.
>> Now that's slimeball.

>
> Yeah, that's pretty snarky. OTOH, with the creeping meatballism of
> markets, these days, I'm getting ready to fight back. You seen what
> they're calling broccoli crowns, lately? I don't know about you, but
> I'm seeing an awful lot of stalk on those crowns. And normal
> broccoli ...chrystonacrutch!.... starting to look like tree trunks
> with some brocs at the top.
>
> nb


I wish I had access to your broccoli. I hate the tops but love the stalks.
Janet