Kitchen

[PickyPicky3]

@proudlyfromNJ You are right!!! I just looked up Jersey Fresh canned products and found it on Amazon. Where do you buy it? I have never seen it.

[proudlyfromNJ]

@PickyPicky3  They do sell them at Wegmans. No tomatoes these days taste like they did when I was young. When I buy corn I get it from the local farm store. It is still tasty thank goodness. Sorry, I misunderstood your post edited.

[proudlyfromNJ]

@PickyPicky3  Sorry, my mistake, just asked husband as he does the grocery shopping and he said Wegmans. He goes to both stores. And usually a couple times a week. I'll tell him to check our SR when he goes although ours is small.

[PickyPicky3]

@proudlyfromNJ No offense meant. Just some crossed communication. And the fact that I haven't been back inside a supermarket since the pandemic.

Speaking as Jersey tomato lover to Jersey tomato lover, pre-pandemic I could find the old traditional NJ tomatoes at tiny farm stands on the back roads of Salem and Cumberland counties. I don't know if they were the real thing or some version of today's "heirloom" tomatoes, but they brought back memories of eating a BLT in August. Those tomatoes were different from the ones in stores or at community farmer's markets. But it meant a commitment to a long drive.

I hope I soon can report finding Jersey Fresh crushed canned tomatoes.

[proudlyfromNJ]

@PickyPicky3  It's funny  if I check Instacart for my SR it has it. I'm going there for my vaccine Tuesday so will check it out. I also have not been in a grocery store since before the pandemic.

[proudlyfromNJ]

@PickyPicky3  I checked my SR and no Jersey Fresh canned tomatoes but they did have Jersey corn in the veggie dept. My SR is a small one.

[PickyPicky3]

Hi @proudlyfromNJ    I found the canned tomatoes in a ShopRite in my area. Not the closest one. Haven't bought them yet because right now I'm well-stocked.

Wegman's has a spaghetti sauce made with Jersey tomatoes called "Ethnic Cottage." Weird name, plus I like to make my own.

No problem finding corn, and it's quite good this summer. As much as I dislike the concept of GMO corn, I don't miss the worms you'd find occasionally pre-GMO.

Thanks again for letting us know canned NJ tomatoes exist.

[Cats3000]

No, I don't really want to know.  I'm sick and tired of shortages and empty shelves and "social distancing" and the rest of the garbage. 

We're being played for fools and we're enabling it.