Heirloom Tomatoes

Got some heirloom tomatoes today from the Whole Foods across Hampden where I live. Pretty tasty. Hadn't had 'heirloom tomatoes' before. They just looked funny. But I had heard they taste good because they are pre-industrial or something. There old seeds and they have more flavor because they haven't been hybridized or something. I think I get the idea. I can often taste the difference between organic and non organic apples. And red delicious apples seem to be the white bread of apples these days, and I imagine that lack of flavor came from some business decision to make the apples hold better in travel, not offend anyone with an easily offended palate or something. Of course, with heirlooms, the issue is they aren't even the nice tomato shape. I got a couple that were close though. Some of them looked really asymmetrical, and were not colors I associate with tomatoes - yellow, green (not unripe green I don't think, just green.)

Anyhow, to sum up, they were pretty tasty.