The poorest tomato in existence is the one almost universally grown for the market. It is of medium size, smooth, roundish, with a tough skin, and sour, hard meat, frequently very hollow, partially filled with seeds and sour water, and being generally gathered in a green state, is no more fit to eat than the vines it grows upon. It is grown because it bears transportation better than the good sorts, and it will sell to people who do not know how to appreciate a good tomato.
and that was before they wheeled pallets of boxes of green colored tomatoes into an inclosed wherehouse so they could gas the maters with ethelene gas to make the maters turn red and fool the unsuspecting consumer into thinking it was ripening
