Kitchen

[PA Mom-mom]

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@PickyPicky3 wrote:

My favorite canned tomato brand is Furmano. Grown in Pennsylvania and Maryland.

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@PickyPicky3  My favorite brand too! Gotta love local!

[LizzieInSRQ]

No thanks, I won't hoard period, it causes problems when done en mass. 

[Tinkrbl44]

I live in CA, and based on what I know about this state's farming, what will probably jump in price is avocados.  Since they are also shipped in from Mexico and other places, I'm not sure how much overall price difference you will see. 

Fortunately, we get food from many places.  

[Epicurean]

FYI, 90% of tomatoes that go to canners are grown in California. I read this story in the business section of the Washington Post.

[proudlyfromNJ]

Our stores carry the Jersey tomato stuff. That's what we usually buy.

[PickyPicky3]

@proudlyfromNJ  I'm curious what brand you're referring to. Beloved Campbell's from Camden is now all California tomatoes. Cento's imports from Italy. Sadly, there's not enough tomato farm acreage left in NJ to support a large distributor. If you know something I don't, please share. I'll buy.

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[proudlyfromNJ]

We buy the Jersey Fresh products and my favorite pizza sauce Don Pepinos. 

[Zhills]

Florida is second to California in tomato production. 

[Mindy D]

"California grows more than 90 percent of Americans' canned tomatoes and a third of the world's. Ongoing drought in the state has hurt the planting and harvesting of many summer crops, but water-hungry "processing tomatoes" are caught up in a particularly treacherous swirl (a "tormado"?) of problems that experts say will spur prices to surge far more than they already have."

Quoted from The Washington a post, Get ready to pay more for tomatoes, as California growers reel from extreme weather," by Laura Riley.

[PickyPicky3]

@proudlyfromNJ   "Jersey Fresh" fresh tomatoes from ShopRite? They're better than the others, but still not the glorious tomatoes from my youth. To get those, you have to grow them yourself or drive around the southern NJ counties to find small farm stands. It's like trying to find non-GMO corn.

I was hoping you'd found a new source of NJ canned tomatoes.