I agree Carolyn, it would be wonderful to have one of those sandwichs of white bread, mayo, and half inch thick old-fashion mater!!!! -----Original Message----- >From: Kat Fulcher <kfulcher55@gmail.com> >Sent: May 25, 2010 1:53 PM >To: vafloyd@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [VAFLOYD] beans > >Carolyn, wish we could transport you out here to the Farmer's market!! Last >couple of years, they have had all sorts of WONDERFUL, local grown, heirloom >"maters!" There were yellow ones, pink ones, red ones, and even beautiful >purple ones! I'm with you--I can not hardly STAND to eat a "store bought" >tomato any more. They don't even taste like maters! > >On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Carolyn Bruce <cdhbruce@cox.net> wrote: > >> Even though we have a "farmers market" in Virginia Beach, I haven't >> found a palatable fresh tomato in decades. 8~( Sorry, Mary Anne, but I >> have all but shunned fresh "tomatoes" entirely. >> >> What I'd love to have is a sandwich... white bread, mayonnaise, and a >> half-inch thick slice of a real old-fashioned Beefsteak tomato. My >> favorite sandwich in the whole world... now extinct. I just hate those >> pinkish red, white-hearted tomatoes that have been hybridized to be >> picked without bruising by machines traveling through the fields at five >> miles an hour. I'm not picky, just old enough to remember when tomatoes >> were solid red, juicy, thin-skinned warm globes that were never out from >> under the sun or stars until my sister and I took a salt shaker to the >> garden and picked and ate 'em! >> >> The real thing, they were. >> >> Carolyn HALE BRUCE >> Virginia Beach, VA >> >> Mary A. Sutphin wrote: >> > You all are forgetting to add diced fresh tomatoes to the beans, >> cornbread and onion. <snip> >> To contact Listowner: >> Rena Worthen doreatr@rbnet.com >> View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> VAFLOYD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > To contact Listowner: >Rena Worthen doreatr@rbnet.com >View the Floyd County Virginia Website at: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafloyd/floyd.htm >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VAFLOYD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message bye