Ugly doesn't mean bad. - Here's a tasty oddity that touches close to home. ;-)
Home of course being Florida.
What with the recent tomato problems across the nation driving costs as high as $3 a pound at one point, it is interesting to see the Florida Tomato Committee banning the sale outside of Florida of a new variety of tomato dubbed "UglyRipes."
Why are they banning it?
Well, because it's ugly. The fact that it's tastes great just isn't good enough.
ABCNews reports:
Just what gets sent out of state is governed by the Florida Tomato Committee, and they demand tomatoes that are round and smooth. Taste is not a factor.
Most of the tomatoes Americans eat in the winter come from Florida, which produces half of all the tomatoes grown in the country.
Florida tomatoes are easy to spot. They look like Christmas tree ornaments, and that's the way the marketing board wants it to stay. They worry that the ugly ripes will give Florida tomatoes a bad name.
Now, just how silly is that? After all, we already have Palm Beach with their inability to use a hole punch.
