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> What's wrong with fresh tomatoes?

They're super bland most of the time (unless you're willing to pay a premium for the more flavourful varieties and those can be hit and miss aswell) - I usually just get canned ones unless I specifically need fresh ones

I do get your point though, making a meal from scratch can be so much better, both taste and health wise, with a bit of practice - not to mention it's relaxing to do the actual chopping & cooking usually

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Beefsteak tomatoes are super bland, as is iceberg lettuce, because they are selected for volume, not taste (it's the best way to make a profit while keeping end-consumer prices low). Same goes for most large varieties of produce.

Try getting some heirloom tomatoes from a farmer's market, or grow your own. You'll be shocked at the difference. Tomatoes (real ones) have a distinctive and delicious taste!

You do realize that if you live in a place and time where tomatoes are super bland, the question of having tomatoes does not even exist. Eat local food :-)

I'm like you : tomates in ca only, cos anything else in my country is not tomato : it's a reddish thing that tastes absolutely nothing.

They could be, as are the tomatoes I can find in Los Angeles, but there are some very tasty kinds (though never remember what what is). Back in Bulgaria, in my father in-law's village house the veggies are always tasty (it could be something else happening in my brain that makes them so, but that's how I started eating more hot peppers, by first trying his own ones, then liking it more and more).

Mine aren't. From the plants in the garden - super tasty, colorful and prodigious. Fill the freezer every summer, use them in cooking all winter.

Spring sucks though - freezer is empty, waiting for the new plants to deliver the first cherry tomatoes.

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