Just came back from the grocery store. Emeril heirloom tomatoes.
$2.99/lb. The tomatoes actually looked pretty good, but ... no
thanks. I'll go to the farmstand for my 'maters.

TammyM, nothing surprises me anymore

On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 22:45:59 +0000, TammyM wrote:

> Just came back from the grocery store. Emeril heirloom tomatoes.
> $2.99/lb. The tomatoes actually looked pretty good, but ... no
> thanks. I'll go to the farmstand for my 'maters.
>
> TammyM, nothing surprises me anymore

But.. doesn't the sticker have a picture of OLE Emiril? Now that is
worth.. well..???

TammyM, after taking an infinite amount of time, finally, on 27 Aug 2006,
typed out:

> Just came back from the grocery store. Emeril heirloom tomatoes.
> $2.99/lb. The tomatoes actually looked pretty good, but ... no
> thanks. I'll go to the farmstand for my 'maters.
>
> TammyM, nothing surprises me anymore


Support your local produce stands at all cost!

Andy

> > Just came back from the grocery store. Emeril heirloom tomatoes.
> > $2.99/lb. The tomatoes actually looked pretty good, but ... no
> > thanks. I'll go to the farmstand for my 'maters.
> >
> > TammyM, nothing surprises me anymore
>
> But.. doesn't the sticker have a picture of OLE Emiril? Now that is
> worth.. well..???
>

I "might" buy them if they appeared locally. So far I have not seen any
heirloom tomatoes (either in the grocery store or our local farmers market),
but I do have a friend who buys them at a chi-chi grocery store in Potomac,
MD for $7.99/lb.... way too rich for my blood.

Chris

On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:19:57 -0500, Andy <q> wrote:

>TammyM, after taking an infinite amount of time, finally, on 27 Aug 2006,
>typed out:
>
>> Just came back from the grocery store. Emeril heirloom tomatoes.
>> $2.99/lb. The tomatoes actually looked pretty good, but ... no
>> thanks. I'll go to the farmstand for my 'maters.
>>
>> TammyM, nothing surprises me anymore
>
>
>Support your local produce stands at all cost!

My sentiments indeed, Andrew.

TammyM

TammyM wrote on Sunday, August 27, 2006 :

> Just came back from the grocery store. Emeril heirloom tomatoes.
> $2.99/lb. The tomatoes actually looked pretty good, but ... no
> thanks. I'll go to the farmstand for my 'maters.

I saw some tomatoes with an Emeril label several years ago at a market
(Fred Meyer)
in Portland, OR. It was February or March. I don't think they caught on.

TammyM > wrote:
>Just came back from the grocery store. Emeril heirloom tomatoes.
>$2.99/lb. The tomatoes actually looked pretty good, but ... no
>thanks. I'll go to the farmstand for my 'maters.

Heirlooms are completely overrated.

Ripe romas have more flavor, and cost $1.29/lb on average.

--Blair

Blair P. Houghton > wrote in
m:

> TammyM > wrote:
>>Just came back from the grocery store. Emeril heirloom
>>tomatoes. $2.99/lb. The tomatoes actually looked pretty
>>good, but ... no thanks. I'll go to the farmstand for my
>>'maters.
>
> Heirlooms are completely overrated.

that's a pretty broad brush you're painting with there!
exactly *which*, of several hundred varieties, of heirloom
tomatoes are you speaking of?
i'm growing only 27 varieties this year, because i'm still
trialling which i like best. if, for instance, your experience
with "heirloom" varieties has been Brandywines (especially the
seed from Parks/Burpee), yeah, i can sorta see your point. but
if you haven't *tried* Transparents, or Pineapple, or Summer
Garden Peach, how can you say they're overrated?
>
> Ripe romas have more flavor, and cost $1.29/lb on average.

San Marzanos are way better than Romas. Romas taste like
sawdust. anything bred to be picked green & shipped is bound
to be inferior.
lee
--
Question with boldness even the existence of god; because if
there be
one, he must more approve the homage of reason than that of
blindfolded
fear. - Thomas Jefferson

"TammyM" > wrote in message
...
> On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:19:57 -0500, Andy <q> wrote:
>
> >TammyM, after taking an infinite amount of time, finally, on 27 Aug 2006,
> >typed out:
> >
> >> Just came back from the grocery store. Emeril heirloom tomatoes.
> >> $2.99/lb. The tomatoes actually looked pretty good, but ... no
> >> thanks. I'll go to the farmstand for my 'maters.
> >>
> >> TammyM, nothing surprises me anymore
> >
> >
> >Support your local produce stands at all cost!
>
> My sentiments indeed, Andrew.
>
> TammyM

Mine, too! We only buy our produce at our local farm stand; so much cheaper
and so much better!

kili

On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:20:56 +0000, Chris Marksberry wrote:


>> But.. doesn't the sticker have a picture of OLE Emiril? Now that is
>> worth.. well..???
>>
>
> I "might" buy them if they appeared locally. So far I have not seen any
> heirloom tomatoes (either in the grocery store or our local farmers market),
> but I do have a friend who buys them at a chi-chi grocery store in Potomac,
> MD for $7.99/lb.... way too rich for my blood.
>
> Chris

I tasted one of those at the Central Market (HEB) in Austin and it was not
any better than the typical homegrown variety...and most of them look to
be nearly rotten..guess at those prices they are slow movers.

KevinS wrote:
> TammyM wrote on Sunday, August 27, 2006 :
>
> > Just came back from the grocery store. Emeril heirloom tomatoes.
> > $2.99/lb. The tomatoes actually looked pretty good, but ... no
> > thanks. I'll go to the farmstand for my 'maters.
>
> I saw some tomatoes with an Emeril label several years ago at a market
> (Fred Meyer)
> in Portland, OR. It was February or March. I don't think they caught on.

A few days ago was my first trip to Sam's Club/Warehouse/whatever, the
one in Kingston, NY. There I saw hermetically sealed packages of
chicken-apple sausage with Emeril's mug on the label... $6/lb... who in
their right mind is gonna pay that much for [mystery] chicken n' apple
tube steak. Btw, I won't be returning, there are no bargains there (in
fact stuff costs substantially more than at regular stupidmarkets) and
how many folks have a fork lift in their kitchen.

Sheldon Calculator

In article >, says...
> Just came back from the grocery store. Emeril heirloom tomatoes.
> $2.99/lb. The tomatoes actually looked pretty good, but ... no
> thanks. I'll go to the farmstand for my 'maters.
>
> TammyM, nothing surprises me anymore
>


I've been talking to the produce manager in my local supermarket. He was
telling me that daily they pitch a couple hundred pounds of produce
because it won't sell at the prices posted.

He explained that it's cheaper to just write off the loss than to sell
at a loss.

Interesting.

enigma > wrote:
> San Marzanos are way better than Romas. Romas taste like

I've always considered SM's to be Romas. A localized
variety of Romas at most. Are they a different breed
of tomato?

--Blair

Blair P. Houghton > wrote in news:d3OIg.718542
:

> enigma > wrote:
>> San Marzanos are way better than Romas. Romas taste like
>
> I've always considered SM's to be Romas. A localized
> variety of Romas at most. Are they a different breed
> of tomato?

Romas are sauce tomatoes, as are San Marzanos... so, they are
the same *type*, but not the same thing. there are even yellow
sauce tomatoes (but they make unattractive catsup).
sauce tomatoes are different from slicing tomatoes (the big,
juicy BLT types), salad tomatoes (the smaller slicing type)
or cherry tomatoes.
have you ever had a white tomato? really odd if you're used
to the red or yellow types, but they taste pretty good. the
transparents are... different. they feel like gummy bears when
they're ripe & they really are translucent. again, they taste
very tomato-y. too juicy to try to cook down for sauce though.
lee


--
Question with boldness even the existence of god; because if
there be
one, he must more approve the homage of reason than that of
blindfolded
fear. - Thomas Jefferson

enigma > wrote:
>Blair P. Houghton > wrote:
>> I've always considered SM's to be Romas. A localized
>> variety of Romas at most. Are they a different breed
>> of tomato?
>
> Romas are sauce tomatoes, as are San Marzanos... so, they are
>the same *type*, but not the same thing. there are even yellow
>sauce tomatoes (but they make unattractive catsup).
> sauce tomatoes are different from slicing tomatoes (the big,
>juicy BLT types), salad tomatoes (the smaller slicing type)
>or cherry tomatoes.

I like romas sliced.

I almost never buy anything else.

But when buying canned, I get San Marzanos. They're about
50% more expensive, but they do just a little better in
sauces.

--Blair