[Magdalen] The worthless tomato.

[Jay Weigel]

They may be "worthless" but they are damn good! I look forward to tomato
season every year. This year the Kroger store in Harrisonburg has been
carrying Grainger County, TN, tomatoes, and I am in heaven! For those
unfamiliar, Grainger County tomatoes are to the true tomato aficionado what
the Vidalia is to an onion lover.....absolute perfection! It is thought to
be a combination of breeding just the right stock, plus the red clay soil
and the climate. Grainger County is just on the other side of Cherokee Lake
(the dammed-up Holston River) from where I lived for 35 years and the dirt
and climate are basically the same. Virginia, eat your heart out.....the
much-touted Hanover tomatoes just aren't in it!

On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 2:25 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> In a message dated 8/19/2016 1:38:47 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> scottknitter at gmail.com writes:
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> And they  make my skin flare up with hives, so they're less than
> worthless in my  case! (Unless cooked...so there's value in their
> flavor in that  case.)>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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> If you have a flat-out allergy to tomatoes, that must be really  difficult,
> because there are insidious tomatoes in just about everything.
> Another hard ones are peanut allergy or chocolate allergy.
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> David S.
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