grocery store tomatoes

[Father'sDaughter]

Originally Posted by zipcode

I'm surprised the Mexico tomatoes aren't that good. I would expect them to be grown in soil since it's cheaper to start and they should have decent light levels.

It's probably more profitable if they are picked and shipped unripe and still hard, than to lose a percentage due to handling while picking/packing when riper. And then they still need to survive being stuffed into a truck for the trip up to the northern part of the US.

I used to have good luck buying Roma's from Mexico and letting them ripen on the counter. Then something changed and instead of getting ripe, they would all go from hard straight to rotten. That's when I gave up.

I now only buy Camparis in the off season IF the package passes my sniff test -- if they smell like tomatoes, I buy, if they have no smell, I pass.