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Scientists want to genetically engineer a spicy tomato
cnet.com ^ | January 9, 2019 4:11 PM PST | Jackson Ryan

Posted on 01/09/2019 8:12:34 PM PST by BenLurkin

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To: Equine1952

I’ve been perfecting scratch biscuits & sausage gravy. Although I live in Iowa, I’d give those southern rebels a run for their money.

Those refrigerator biscuits in a tube are convenient, but they are nasty.


41 posted on 01/09/2019 10:32:43 PM PST by Freedom4US
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To: BenLurkin

Just a decent flavorful tomato would be good.

Cant touch heirlooms because of this.


42 posted on 01/09/2019 10:40:22 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Freedom4US

True. You folks can grow tomatoes too. Want a great tomato? Go to the Midwest. I have to work my arse off here in Idaho.


43 posted on 01/09/2019 10:55:15 PM PST by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
:Black Krim and Paul Robeson. The 2 best tomatoes.

So there's a tomato named for Comrade Paul Robeson? Puree it in a blender, mix it with Stolichnaya vodka and call the cocktail a Red Russian.

44 posted on 01/09/2019 11:02:09 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Wow, thanks. Overwhelming amount of info!


45 posted on 01/10/2019 12:14:39 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: BenLurkin

Once upon a time I loved Tomato’s. Then they messed with the Genetics and the way they grow them. Now they are totally terrible. Gross texture, and no flavor. I usually pick them out of everything and throw them away.

But every once in a awhile I will get lucky and find ones closer to what they used to be like. But it does not happen often.


46 posted on 01/10/2019 2:19:44 AM PST by Revel
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To: djf

A friend of mine once lived near the town sewage treatment plant. He swore the tomatoes that grew on the sludge dump were the best he had ever tasted. Never tried them myself.


47 posted on 01/10/2019 3:03:44 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Billthedrill

There was a young freeper years ago who was fond of tomatoes and had his own website on them...........


48 posted on 01/10/2019 3:11:37 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Billthedrill
“The best tasting tomaters have all been homegrown. Yum!” Agree. But, it’s my experience that tomatoes seem particularly vulnerable to nematodes while peppers seem very resistant to them. So, if introducing some of the resistant toughness of the pepper into the tomato will make it more durable I’m for it. Besides, if a jalamato could be created think how much simpler making salsa would be 😂....
49 posted on 01/10/2019 3:34:41 AM PST by snoringbear (,W,E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: BenLurkin

Ray Liotta will be doing Chantix commercials for tomacco?


50 posted on 01/10/2019 5:08:01 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Billthedrill

Give me a hot day in late summer, ripe tomatoes on the vine in the garden and a salt shaker.

Come get me at sunset, please.


51 posted on 01/10/2019 5:17:56 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: Equine1952

Yes, but I am one of the few Americans who know where Potatoes really come from! We get these humongous Idaho baker spuds at the grocery store. They take an hour and a half at 400 in the oven.

Using a microwave oven for a baking potato is barbaric, as is the use of foil.


52 posted on 01/10/2019 7:21:30 AM PST by Freedom4US
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To: Hot Tabasco
There was a young freeper years ago who was fond of tomatoes and had his own website on them...

I remember him well. RIP.

53 posted on 01/10/2019 9:24:46 AM PST by Billthedrill
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