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>

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 >

Carolyn, I agree with you 100%.  Those tomato sandwiches with white bread were the best.  My sister and I would do the same as you, take a salt shaker to the garden.  Good memories. Thanks, Ann .......................  ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carolyn Bruce" <cdhbruce@cox.net> To: maryva2005@yahoo.com, vafloyd@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 12:49:20 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: Re: [VAFLOYD] beans 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