Monday, February 7, 2011

When is a Tomato a Tomato?

It's February in Minnesota.
A tomato bought at the grocery store is merely a notion of a tomato.  Have you been to the produce section lately?  The tomatoes look lovely, red, shiny and plastic.  they look so good you want to believe they are the tomato of summer.  But, alas they are not.  Tim bought a few of these notions over a week ago.  Colorful they are, tasteful they are not.  The red they added to the salad was much appreciated on this grey day, but again they were nothing short of a notion of a tomato.  I don't need a notion.  I need a tomato.  I look forward to tomatoes.

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