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The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website to The Onion@midwest.socialEnglish · 1 year ago

Italian Immigrants Shopping In U.S. Grocery Stores Announce These Tomatoes No Good

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Italian Immigrants Shopping In U.S. Grocery Stores Announce These Tomatoes No Good

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The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website to The Onion@midwest.socialEnglish · 1 year ago
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NEW YORK—Having scoffed in astonishment as they picked up the produce and examined it, Italian immigrants shopping in U.S. grocery stores issued a statement Thursday claiming these tomatoes, they no good. “A tomato supposed to be red—what this supposed to be?” said Gianfranco Padovani, who arrived in the United States…
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  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    Everyone who has ever eaten a homegrown tomato knows that the shit they sell at grocery stores and fast food chains are paltry imitations, not even worthy of the tomato name.

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social
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      That’s what happens when you breed and grow tomatoes to survive industrial processing and shipping instead of flavor and texture.

      I don’t even like tomatoes and I agree that homegrown ones at least taste like something

      • Retrograde@lemmy.world
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        You guys are really making me want to start growing some tomatoes

  • JoYo@lemmy.ml
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    I’ve resorted to canned tomatoes for shit like salads lately, the fresh stuff is that bad.

    • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world
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      Well tomatoe season is over but yea. Grow em in a greenhouse of ya can

  • distantsounds@lemmy.world
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    Straight up tasting like pumpkin sometimes

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      That sounds delicious, maybe I need to look at tomatoes again.

      • Soku@lemmy.world
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        Oh, just buy pumpkin then. At least you’ll get what you paid for

  • It's A Faaaahhkeah!@lemmus.org
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    Looks like the onion has decided to just tell facts instead of making satire.

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