Comments on: Monday Morning Rant: “Fake” Tomatoes in East Texas Broke My Heart

By: Idunno

Idunno — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:43:26 +0000

Bluberry Hill Farm in Edom didn’t disappoint Saturday.

By: S.A.M.

S.A.M. — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:27:28 +0000

Nancy, out-of-state tomatoes impersonating in-state tomatoes should be against the law (just like the way that guy was treating his god). I had a similar incident happen to me a few years back in Oklahoma. They grow some awesome watermelons up there. So I stopped to buy one. The guy at the stand had just purchased them from the Dallas Farmers Market. Groan. I wanted a good Oklahoma watermelon. Big fakers!

By: Mick

Mick — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:13:41 +0000

This was a nice essay. We do need to be nice and lieing about those tomatoes is ****ty and the dog too

By: Twinwillow

Twinwillow — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:08:24 +0000

@CoB ~ Thanks. I’ll give it another try this weekend.
Need some more, “barnyard” eggs as well. Love those little green ones.
Hope the peaches will be sweeter, too!

By: Rawlins Gilliland

Rawlins Gilliland — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:49:24 +0000

Here’s a happy SideDish related sidebar. On the same day your rodent louse had his dog locked in the heat;

I met last night at Lee Harvey’s…. Julian from BOLSA w/his new bouncing baby ‘Cora’—a young white albino pit bull he rescued two weeks ago in an Oak Cliff parking lot despite ‘not wanting a dog’ or wanting to get otherwise involved. But he could not leave ‘Cora’ there somehow. And he let her into his car. And the rest was his….and Cora’s…history.

And PS: For anyone ever stereotyping pit bulls: That was the happiest, sweetest and cutest pit I ever saw in my life. Tail wagging, rolling and playing with any other dog. Kissing any other dog voraciously. A genuinely dear, sweet and joyous doggy. Who had apparently been used as a ‘bait dog’ for fighting pits prior to being dumped, scars intact. How’s that for a balancing act happy ending?

So let’s all send a happy fist bump to Julian and Cora. Ask him about her when you go to Bolsa.

Against all odds dogs find us and we are rewarded ongoing for saving their lives. THAT’s what I suspect they mean when they talk about ‘heaven on earth’.

By: CoB

CoB — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:56:34 +0000

@Twinwillow – At lunchtime today I had a tomato purchased from Lemley’s yesterday at Shed #1. Looked and tasted just like it was grown in the backyard and picked ripe. Sorry your experience was not as good. Don’t give up.

By: Twinwillow

Twinwillow — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:49:49 +0000

I’m still waiting for some decent East Texas tomatoes to appear. The ones I bought at a (local) Dallas market were supposed to be genuine “Lemley’s”. A week now and there’re
still hard as a rock! And, the tomatoes at shed #1 at the DFM are, tasteless!

By: Twinwillow

Twinwillow — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:44:47 +0000

F**k the ‘maters. Call the cops and have the ass***e arrested for animal cruelty!

By: Amy S

Amy S — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:42:41 +0000

Yesterday I was in the Tom Thumb at Preston Forest and they had to page a lady who had left her dog in the car (AT 1:00 IN THE FRIGGING AFTERNOON) with the windows cracked. She was in her mid-60’s, and when she started giving Georgia (the manager) the “I don’t understand the problem” line, the people in the checkout lanes BOOED her.

By: Rawlins Gilliland

Rawlins Gilliland — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:34:31 +0000

FYI, if the time ever comes when any of us is NOT outraged at animal cruelty, we’re cerifiably old if not dead.

By: TG

TG — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:29:33 +0000

how can we set that dog free? fricking AWFUL

By: Rawlins Nichol-Plated

Rawlins Nichol-Plated — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:29:29 +0000

I trace this downslide to the ‘Gentlemen’s Clubs’. When a pair of Monsanto-ed melons begets a pricey lap dance, how can selling fake and tasteless Monsanto-ed tomatoes be far behind?

By: Nancy Nichols

Nancy Nichols — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:08:38 +0000

thanks, matt. still pissed.

By: Nigel Tufnel

Nigel Tufnel — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:04:24 +0000

I believe that my wife and I were disappointed at that same stand a couple of weeks ago. We had taken the kids to the Fisheries Center in Athens on a Saturday morning and were headed back to Dallas with plans for a nice dinner with East Texas produce. We were similarly disgusted with overpriced, foreign tomatoes, and we were put off by the $8 canteloupe. Sad. No sign of the dog, however, and it was a woman working that day.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:59:16 +0000

FYI — your first reference to Eustace says “Euless”. Couldn’t figure out how Euless was on your way from your neighborhood to East Texas.

By: rubbercow

rubbercow — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:57:50 +0000

There is a person at the Farmer’s Market that I won’t trade with any more because of a similar problem. Where are the tomatoes from? West Texas. Where in West Texas? Just out West!

By: Brad

Brad — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:52:03 +0000

I’m adding him to my list of people I plan to take out when I go postal. I saw “Food, Inc.” on Friday – disturbing. This guy sounds awful, so now I want to hear the resolution to the story.

I don’t know if I could spot a non-Texan Tomater, but I would definitely flip out about the dog……