Thanks for sharing this! I wasn’t expecting much from this article as it sounded a bit clickbaitish, but I was pleasantly surprised!
“People lost a lot of interest in tomatoes for a long time until heirlooms came back,” Walker said. “Now we have the same thing with peppers. There’s a place for people to embrace heirloom peppers, the way that we have with tomatoes.”
I never liked tomatoes in unprocessed form until my neighbor grew some for fun in my garden and gave them to me. Home tomatoes are great.
Coincidentally, I just watched this week’s Curb Your Enthusiasm and Larry goes on a similar rant about hating strawberries his whole life until he ate one right off the bush. That’s another one industry really does a disservice to!
Store produce is just so meh so often. Do people prefer pretty over tasty that much?
I’m convinced that a significant fraction of people don’t really taste food.
I’ve come across a few people that seem to hate eating is a part to survival. What are they eating that they hate all food? There are so many yummy things out there!
Growing up poor in a crappy place with no good food, it’s easy to think this way. I didn’t really enjoy any vegetables until college.
That’s fair. It’s been a while now, but we weren’t poor , both my parents were pretty crappy cooks and since everything was either dry/tough or mush, there were a lot of foods i didn’t like until many years later. If all you have is a corner store or dollar store to get stuff from, you can only do so much to it to make it something exciting.
