I have already resigned myself to eating the cardboard tasting tomatoes in my local produce stores, but now I am finding even the carrots taste lousy. I still have some carrots growing in my garden which taste great to me, but anything store bought is either tasteless or bitter. These are carrots with the leaves still attached, which should preserve their flavor. I can understand the problem of shipping tomatoes, but what excuse is there for carrots? Next year, I am going to plant an extra large crop of carrots, say in mid season, so that I will have a supply of them for fall, and possibly in winter (I hear they can be harvested, even with snow on the ground). I cannot help but wonder that we can put men on the moon, but we cannot come up with a good tasting tomato that will hold up under shipment. I do recall that many years ago, you could not even get certain vegetables in the winter, so maybe we should just take what we can get.
Sherwin Dubren