My husband taught me a long time ago about the difference between "tomatoes" and "maters!" Tomatoes are those cardboard, pale pink, tasteless things they sell in the grocery store. Maters are home grown or local grown on real farms and are beautiful, tasty, colorful, juicy, and full of good flavor. You can NOT buy a "mater" in a store...and a MATER is the only thing that belongs on a sandwich, especially a MATER sandwich!! Last summer, I grew alot of my own (and not from store bought seeds, but from seeds taken from other heirloom maters!) We had mater heaven all summer long...it was awesome...sigh... On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Carolyn Bruce <cdhbruce@cox.net> wrote: > They don't taste like tomatoes and they haven't the same color, smell, > or consistency of tomatoes, Kat. I think they should call them something > else so people don't start to think that these tasteless things are what > tomatoes are! I call them "ersatz" tomatoes, 'cause they're poor > imitations of real tomatoes, like during WWII, chicory was a poor > substitute for coffee, and "oleo" was a poor substitute for butter. > > Carolyn > > 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 >