A week in which I question progess !
First, for those who’ve reading for a while, you may remember “the end of the soggy sandwich” courtesy of Tesco and their Dutch developed “non-leaky” tomato. I think we were pretty much all of a view this wasn’t a problem we were particularly looking to have solved. However whilst we got on with sowing our sorry-soggy-making varieties, others must have seen this as a good-idea-which-could-be-taken-even-further as an Israeli grower has now developed ‘ Admoniya’ ; stage name: “Intense”. A “Dripless” tomato ( “dripless” – better or worse than “non-leaky” ? – I can’t decide)
My favourite “extolling its virtues” line: “You can put these tomatoes in a sandwich and eat it a few days later and they taste fresh and the bread will not be soggy“. Maybe a little bit curled around the edges, like my lips at the thought of a vintage sarnie, but definetely not soggy ! However I guess if you’re going to journey round frozen Britain, then packing some longer-lasting sarnies might be just the thing !
At least “Intense” is all-tomato whereas elsewhere the plot darkens – and thickens – literally – with the introduction of Precisa Pulp 01. In a Tomatolover’s Christmas pantomine – the stage appearance of PP01 – would be the cause of much hissing and booing. For the other name this character goes by…( cue drum roll and shocked denouement) is none other than – “a tomato solid replacement product”. Eh? It would seem there are dastardly moves atruss to cunningly replace certain amounts of tomato concentrate in tomatoe-y dishes with PP01…And whilst I don’t claim to understand the science… as a tomatolover … I feel bound to declare this… no good thing !
So after all this mucking about with our food – our tomatoes no less – I thought I end with a more cheery seasonal mucking aboutness – courtesy of a Spudolph ! The tomato, of course, playing the starring role, small but essential, verily… the very feature by which this creature is known and loved !
