And the cycle of questionable parenting goes on and on. Isn't nature wonderful.
juanelric
Mar 8, 2024 10:35PM
Frog you
Kojiro481
Mar 8, 2024 11:03PM
Leave it to Suletta to find this cute somehow :-P
luinthoron
Mar 9, 2024 3:22AM
Perfect.
nintenplayer
Mar 9, 2024 10:21AM
Oh my god this is so cute
nio_neka
Mar 9, 2024 1:20PM
oh for frog's sake
curanto
Mar 9, 2024 10:25PM
a whole tomato for dinner??? they're really spoiling that kid
juanelric
Mar 10, 2024 1:01AM
^Aren't freshly-plucked tomatoes supposed to be sweet?
Akaii
Mar 10, 2024 1:36PM
^If you mean keeping them on the vine till they're to be eaten, tomatoes will ripen and sweeten over time even after picking, provided it's done after the colour starts to change and you don't refrigerate them. You shouldn't notice any difference between on- and off-the-vine ripened ones in a blind test. How sweet exactly they are may depend on the size they grow to, cultivar choice, growing conditions, and one's own taste buds.
If you mean compared to store-bought tomatoes, many of them taste bland due to production-transportation-storage methods (and at least in the USA and tomato-exporting countries, due to commercial cultivars meant for long-distance shipping sacrificing the taste for durability), not because of their age.
FluffyCow
Mar 10, 2024 1:41PM
^Don't stores also artificially increase the redness of tomatoes because that sells better? I've heard they also make salmon pinker. Seems like some nonsense trickery lol
Akaii
Mar 10, 2024 3:41PM
^There's historically breeding prettier uniformly-colored tomatoes that hurt sugar accumulation, and gassing them with ethylene (it's used to quickly ripen easily-transported unripe green tomatoes), but I'm not sure if or how the latter affects the taste since it's also what the tomatoes produce on their own during the natural ripening process and it would be in vein of putting them in a paper bag or surrounding them with bananas).
The stores use different lighting for grocery aisles that makes food colours look more vibrant.
FluffyCow
Mar 10, 2024 4:15PM
^That makes sense, thanks for the info. I kind of recall hearing about the quickened ripening, and the lighting rings a bit of a bell now that I think about it. It's weird to think about how conditioned we are by various levels of marketing and sales strategies.
Bugpope Mar 8, 2024 10:34PM
And the cycle of questionable parenting goes on and on. Isn't nature wonderful.
juanelric Mar 8, 2024 10:35PM
Frog you
Kojiro481 Mar 8, 2024 11:03PM
Leave it to Suletta to find this cute somehow :-P
luinthoron Mar 9, 2024 3:22AM
Perfect.
nintenplayer Mar 9, 2024 10:21AM
Oh my god this is so cute
nio_neka Mar 9, 2024 1:20PM
oh for frog's sake
curanto Mar 9, 2024 10:25PM
a whole tomato for dinner??? they're really spoiling that kid
juanelric Mar 10, 2024 1:01AM
^Aren't freshly-plucked tomatoes supposed to be sweet?
Akaii Mar 10, 2024 1:36PM
^If you mean keeping them on the vine till they're to be eaten, tomatoes will ripen and sweeten over time even after picking, provided it's done after the colour starts to change and you don't refrigerate them. You shouldn't notice any difference between on- and off-the-vine ripened ones in a blind test. How sweet exactly they are may depend on the size they grow to, cultivar choice, growing conditions, and one's own taste buds.
If you mean compared to store-bought tomatoes, many of them taste bland due to production-transportation-storage methods (and at least in the USA and tomato-exporting countries, due to commercial cultivars meant for long-distance shipping sacrificing the taste for durability), not because of their age.
FluffyCow Mar 10, 2024 1:41PM
^Don't stores also artificially increase the redness of tomatoes because that sells better? I've heard they also make salmon pinker. Seems like some nonsense trickery lol
Akaii Mar 10, 2024 3:41PM
^There's historically breeding prettier uniformly-colored tomatoes that hurt sugar accumulation, and gassing them with ethylene (it's used to quickly ripen easily-transported unripe green tomatoes), but I'm not sure if or how the latter affects the taste since it's also what the tomatoes produce on their own during the natural ripening process and it would be in vein of putting them in a paper bag or surrounding them with bananas).
The stores use different lighting for grocery aisles that makes food colours look more vibrant.
FluffyCow Mar 10, 2024 4:15PM
^That makes sense, thanks for the info. I kind of recall hearing about the quickened ripening, and the lighting rings a bit of a bell now that I think about it. It's weird to think about how conditioned we are by various levels of marketing and sales strategies.
Junyuri Mar 19, 2024 5:00PM
Frog me? Uhhh... kero.