21-09-2004, 10:30 AM
Sorry, I know this is slightly off topic for this forum but just have to ask.
Why is it that even though you can get French, Spanish and Italian sun ripened tomatoes all over the Continent, the shops here in Ireland persist in selling those insipid Dutch greenhouse grown tomatoes?
I went out this weekend to try and get some good tomatoes to make my winter stash of ragu, sugos, and passatas with and could not find a single sun-ripened tomato anywhere - and that included the local market (they were selling Irish greenhouse tomatoes)!
Surely the summer hasn't been that bad?
Why is it that even though you can get French, Spanish and Italian sun ripened tomatoes all over the Continent, the shops here in Ireland persist in selling those insipid Dutch greenhouse grown tomatoes?
I went out this weekend to try and get some good tomatoes to make my winter stash of ragu, sugos, and passatas with and could not find a single sun-ripened tomato anywhere - and that included the local market (they were selling Irish greenhouse tomatoes)!
Surely the summer hasn't been that bad?