Grape Tomatoes (an answer for Flat)
I copied and pasted this from an article I found... They describe it much better than I do! They are fabulous bite sized snacks that are not fattening!
Grape tomatoes: Giving the Cherries a Run for Their Money
Plants & Gardens News Volume 16, Number 1 Spring 2001
by Niall Dunne
It's been nearly three years since I bought my first dry pint of grape tomatoes—and got hooked. At the time, these tasty treats were only available at trendy food stores like Fairway on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Nowadays, they are a supermarket sensation, flying off produce-department shelves all around the country.
So what's all the fuss about? At first glance, grape tomatoes don't look that different from red cherry tomatoes, which have been around for eons. (Prior to cultivation, the first tomato plants grew wild in Peru and Northern Chile, bearing pea- to cherry-sized fruits.) On closer inspection, however, you see that they are more elongated than cherries, shaped instead like olives or—yes, I have a genius for simile—like grapes.
Grape tomatoes combine a number of desirable tomato qualities, including very sweet flavor, firm texture, and at least the semblance of having been ripened on the vine. They don't have an inordinate amount of juice in them, so squirting accidents are minimized. Indeed, since these tomatoes average only about 1/2 to 3/4 inches in length, they pop right into your mouth, eliminating the squirt factor altogether.
Grape tomatoes also eliminate the "yuck" factor—kids love 'em! They gobble them up like candy. And they do it before, during, and after meals.
Plants & Gardens News Volume 16, Number 1 Spring 2001
by Niall Dunne
It's been nearly three years since I bought my first dry pint of grape tomatoes—and got hooked. At the time, these tasty treats were only available at trendy food stores like Fairway on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Nowadays, they are a supermarket sensation, flying off produce-department shelves all around the country.
So what's all the fuss about? At first glance, grape tomatoes don't look that different from red cherry tomatoes, which have been around for eons. (Prior to cultivation, the first tomato plants grew wild in Peru and Northern Chile, bearing pea- to cherry-sized fruits.) On closer inspection, however, you see that they are more elongated than cherries, shaped instead like olives or—yes, I have a genius for simile—like grapes.
Grape tomatoes combine a number of desirable tomato qualities, including very sweet flavor, firm texture, and at least the semblance of having been ripened on the vine. They don't have an inordinate amount of juice in them, so squirting accidents are minimized. Indeed, since these tomatoes average only about 1/2 to 3/4 inches in length, they pop right into your mouth, eliminating the squirt factor altogether.
Grape tomatoes also eliminate the "yuck" factor—kids love 'em! They gobble them up like candy. And they do it before, during, and after meals.
2 comments:
I wonder if these are what we call "Tommy Toes" in the south? I don't like tomatoes AT ALL (make me gag literally). My mom used to top off her salads with these little boogers tho.
Toomy Toes! I have not heard that word in years hahaha. And yes I thnk they are the same thing ha ha tommy toes hahaha
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