The Perfect Tomato

Icegoddess · ‎03-19-2010

I ran to the grocery store today to pick up a few items. I go to the produce department to pick up an onion for me and a tomato for hubby. I have to wait a couple of minutes to get to the onions and tomatoes I want for another lady, so I kinda wander around until she is done. At the same time I notice another lady over in front of the Beefsteak tomatoes carefully picking up and squeezing each and every one of them. By now, the other lady has moved on and I go over to get my onion and tomato. Meanwhile, the original lady moves down the row and picks up a bag with tomatoes in it. After a quick examination, she puts her carefully selected tomato back in the bin and takes the bag of tomatoes. I just found that strange.

On top of that, when I walked into the grocery store a different lady seemed to have difficulty picking out her grocery basket. She had 2 or 3 of them out of the hopper. As I walked through the door she had just returned one of them and I took it. I have no idea what she thought was wrong with it.

justashopper · ‎03-21-2010

@Icegoddess

So funny.... people watching just keeps getting better and better. LOL

GenXmuse · ‎05-15-2016

Tomato picking is serious business!

Mistreatedbycs · ‎03-10-2010

I'm actually not a bag lady, I like to pick the one's on a stem.

Never knows what goes on in the Produce Department.

Icegoddess · ‎03-19-2010

@GenXmuse wrote:
Tomato picking is serious business!

@GenXmuse I really wouldn't know. I don't eat tomatoes. I have heard that the Vine Ripe tomtoes are more tasty than the Beefsteak, so that is what I always get for my husband.

I sometimes have to pick through a few avocados to find one the correct ripeness for when I want to use it, but never have I gone through a whole bin of them.

Drythe · ‎07-09-2011

Tomato

People watching in the produce area.

"Animals are not my whole world, but they have made my world whole" ~ Roger Caras

ECBG · ‎01-08-2011

Bless that little tomato! It's probably hoping to be a tomato sandwich!!!!

RoughDraft · ‎03-09-2010

We're hooked on Compari tomatoes...smallish, sweet, never disappoint

~The only difference between this place and the Titanic is that the Titanic had a band.~

denisemb · ‎12-07-2012

The ones I used to grow! LOL

Otherwise, I do tomatoes on the vine.

Denise

05gage25 · ‎11-16-2014

@RoughDraft I am hooked on the Campari tomatoes, too! Not very big but they taste homegrown. Until my garden tomatoes are ready, I will buy these every time I go into Kroger! I've turned several of my friends onto them, too. A little pricey but well worth it!!😋😋