Tasteless supermarket tomatoes - Let's campaign!

Lotus-eater

Teahfc wrote: »

The supermarkets use long life varieties fo tomatoes,the best non Spanish long life are from Italy or France. As a supplier to the trade we have to split grade tomatoes so they fit 4 slices on a standard piece of bread ..just how the stores want them predictable and boring.
Vine tomatoes are only nice because we think they are all to do with marketing, dress something up eye catching and it will sel to the mug shopper !

I've always thought vine tomatoes tasted better tbh and my taste buds are pretty active. I'm suprised they are the same.
I expect it depends alot on where you buy them and what they are.

Lotus-eater

Zazen999 wrote: »

Agreed - my favourites are purple ones straight off the Vine from the garden or greenhouse. Grushovka is the type. Lovely.

So why did you send me Purple Ukraine seeds instead then? :rotfl:

Can I humbly ask for the Grush things for next year please?

anudeglory

Is this problem solely confined to the UK? It seems to me like it is but I cannot understand why?

I've just returned from California where the strawberries were the size of large UK-style tomatoes, if not bigger, and the tomatoes were the size of oranges.

We also went to one supermarket and it was so much unlike anything any UK supermarket has to offer. It was so much better. Other than everything being stacked bizarrely, the potatoes etc were neatly stacked into pyramids, the range and shapes and sizes of vegetables and fruits was so much better.

I also lived for a while in Singapore and remember that Mangoes actually have a smell and generally if there were no Durians (which smell like the sewer) about then that would be all you could smell in the fruit section of the supermarkets there, here they have no smell whatsoever. The supermarkets in Singapore are very reminiscent of those in America.

Other posts in this thread seem to suggest that European supermarkets aren't the same as here in the UK and don't subscribe to this almost 'prototypic design' of all fruits and vegetables.

It can't be all cost factor either, I know California has great weather so most of the produce will be local but the UK has also the weather needed to produce good food for the right crops but we just don't seem to be given the opportunity to buy it in supermarkets.

It is something that needs to change but how?

Zazen999

Lotus-eater wrote: »

So why did you send me Purple Ukraine seeds instead then? :rotfl:

Can I humbly ask for the Grush things for next year please?

Purple Ukraines are delicious as well

I'll be having loads more to swap later - don't worry. :j

Penelope_Penguin

Primrose wrote: »

Anybody else feel the same way and want to join in? We had some vine tomatoes from Sainsburys the other day which tasted like liquid water.

As this isn't about growing your own, I'll move it to the Grocery Shopping board

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stephen77

go up a tier in tomato qulaity. there are more exspensive ones that have more taste.

Ben84

I know I keep saying this, but try your local market or greengrocer. I find the stuff so much fresher with more flavor and texture, vegetables are crisp and crunchy. It keeps longer and better too from being fresher, and I find the markets generally cheaper.

Most supermarkets are great for things like packets of washing powder or bags of flour, but fruit and vegetables are better bought elsewhere.

VanyaHargreeves

"tasted like liquid water"
surely water is liquid anyway....?

KimYeovil

I got banned from a Tesco for sequentially taking back tomatoes. The British consumers don't care. They buy tasteless trash. Most of the scum probably don't know what food tastes like anyway. Too much money being doled out to the underclasses - their buying power is too high.

If everyone returned unripe, flavourless rubbish to the shop then there might be a change. But most people who do care abandon supermarkets which just leaves behind a greater percentage of passionless idiots who make things even worse.

Zazen999

KimYeovil wrote: »

I got banned from a Tesco for sequentially taking back tomatoes. The British consumers don't care. They buy tasteless trash. Most of the scum probably don't know what food tastes like anyway. Too much money being doled out to the underclasses - their buying power is too high.

If everyone returned unripe, flavourless rubbish to the shop then there might be a change. But most people who do care abandon supermarkets which just leaves behind a greater percentage of passionless idiots who make things even worse.

Perhaps the passionless idiot scum who don't care can't taste anything because drinking and smoking completely bu66ers up their taste buds?