A store-bought rose, by any other name, these days ........

[treeguy64]

would still smell nothing like a rose! The same theme goes for the taste of grocery peaches and tomatoes.

What marketing geniuses decided that the public values shipping hardiness over the very qualities that made the shipped items near and dear to countless millions of people?

I stopped buying all three of the above, long ago. Then, Whole Foods, founded and headquartered in Austin, my hometown, started offering heirloom tomatoes that tasted like tomatoes. Wow!

Still, I can't believe how people have come to accept tasteless, odorless produce and flowers. I guess if you give the masses no choice, they will, in time, accept what's foisted onto them.

Sad.

 

[hollydolly]

I agree.!! I wish we could have tomatoes that taste of tomatoes again....

When I travel to Cyprus or Greece, the tomatoes there are always so sweet they almost taste like strawberries...but here and even now in Spain where the vast majority of tomatoes are imported from, they taste of nothing!!

I used to grow tomatoes myself, but we just had too much for just 2 of us so I stopped a couple of years ago..

I don't buy store bought roses, I grow my own roses, and they smell divine... but I take your point!!

 

[Ruthanne]

I know what you mean. I think they should let us taste it first. I bought some vine ripened tomatoes and they were awful! Tried some Roma tomatoes after that and they were good. I buy berries all the time and they are tasty about half of the time. I often don't bother with other fruit any more. I can eat card board anytime!