Sunday 5 June 2011

The curiously misshapen tomato

The envy of all other tomatoes
Nat and I were recently at a local Sobey's when we came across this most curious tomato. Now if a tomato could have a machismo complex, this tomato would have it bad. Rather than leave it to waste away in the grocery store, we bought it, fully intent on eating it. In fact, it tasted perfectly normal and made a great addition to our lunch time sandwiches. We decided to not document the tomato's disassembly and dismemberment, nor did we eat the growth, in part because it had grown moldy by the time we sliced it.

For the record, neither the tomato nor the picture was modified by us in any way. This tomato was exactly how we found it, in all its glory and exactly as nature intended it. As well, for those who may have wondered, the tomato was definitely not an heirloom tomato (but I would assume GMO?). And no, your eyes are not deceiving you, the growth is in fact shriveling, something that increased as time wore on.

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