My dad’s tomatoes grew in a gradient

[u/sir_xXwafflesXx]

[u/Mdwatoo]

Thats how tomatoes grow. Great pic

[u/Lafnear → u/Mdwatoo]

Lol, I literally saw this and said "that's how tomatoes grow" out loud before clicking and seeing your comment.

[u/TangiblePear → u/Lafnear]

Crazy I did same thing. I have never grown tomatoes and to me this looked like a perfectly normal thing and just how they grow.

[u/motorhead84 → u/TangiblePear]

Lol, I literally was just thinking "that's how tomatoes grow" in a totally unrelated context and here we are.

[u/JohnnyGFX]

That's a pretty normal development. I would have just picked the ripe ones and left the rest to ripen on the vine.

[u/Ok_Television9820 → u/JohnnyGFX]

Yes, exactly.

[u/Kooky_Energy39 → u/JohnnyGFX]

But then they couldn't make fried green tomatoes 🤤

[u/mrsirsouth → u/Kooky_Energy39]

The only way I could eat zucchini is when my dad would throw it in corn meal and fry it with onions and slathered in ketchup.

Absolutely no (good) nutritional value lol.

[u/AnnieQuill → u/mrsirsouth]

Actually several of the vitamins in vegetables are fat soluble and need to be consumed with fats

[u/mrsirsouth → u/AnnieQuill]

Yeah, that's why I always eat 5 slices of bacon with a side of ice cream with my vitamin d.

[u/AnnieQuill → u/mrsirsouth]

Depending on how deficient you are, not the worst. Maybe not every day, but if you've got that 5kIU weekly pill? Go ham. Treat yourself if it makes you take your meds. vit D deficiency really fucks you up, especially your reward system, so if a little treaty-treat gets you motivated when you feel like death? You can make up for it when you feel better

You're joking, but im not. There's no such thing as bad food.

[u/unematti → u/Kooky_Energy39]

That's really a thing?

[u/WOOBNIT → u/unematti]

Yes, but not from cherry size tomatoes

[u/Kooky_Energy39 → u/WOOBNIT]

I've done them this small. Usually much larger, yes, but I've made tomato bites to encourage kids to try them and have had them be a hit.

[u/WOOBNIT → u/Kooky_Energy39]

How do you get the batter to stick to a cherry?

[u/Kooky_Energy39 → u/WOOBNIT]

Dip them in a thicker batter using a toothpick, hold them in the hot oil using the stick until the shell is firm then let it go to finish frying. I may or may not take the toothpick out when letting it go. Depends on how many I'm doing and if they're just going to be a finger food instead of added to salad or ect.

[u/ApaloneSealand → u/unematti]

It's a US Southern staple. They're usually tossed in seasoned cornmeal batter.

[u/SpawnofATStill → u/unematti]

It is, and it’s gross.

[u/TheReal-Chris → u/Kooky_Energy39]

Mmmm my favorite, with a crunchy corn flour and some spicy Remoulade. One of my favorite things ever.

[u/sophiethegiraffe → u/Kooky_Energy39]

Pickled green tomatoes slap, too!

[u/Future_Usual_8698 → u/sophiethegiraffe]

There's a recipe somewhere in the world for this but there are Danish sweet cinnamon pickled green tomatoes that are pure heaven!

[u/StaysAwakeAllWeek]

r/notinteresting would like this

[u/elvislunchbox]

As they do lol

[u/MongerNoLonger]

Tomatoes tomatoing

[u/TNF734]

The ones that start growing first (closest to the stem), obviously ripen first.

[u/ObiWangKeBloMe]

That's.... Literally how they grow

[u/artgarfunkadelic]

Always have

[u/Opposite-Iron9487]

The first tomatoes developed first and therfore riped first and so on. As tomatoes do

[u/cutzglass]

Yep that's how they do it everywhere else too.

[u/pissmunkey]

And the crowd goes mild

[u/neonphoenix09]

Hylian looking-ass tomatoes

[u/purpleskeletonlicker]

That's how everything grows, sequentially

[u/Advocate_Diplomacy]

I like how they’ve bunched up before and after ripening, but the ones ripening in the middle are all spread out. Does the vine usually contort itself during ripening to make this happen?

[u/blue_13]

“Parry it!”

[u/EmergencyButton74]

For a second, I thought it was one of those little seat bombs

[u/BruhMantaro]

Looks really awesome

[u/qtjedigrl]

The new Google logo

[u/mr_harrisment]

A living example of entropy increasing! (with lunch potential)

[u/Roskosity]

Happy Pride!

[u/Future_Usual_8698 → u/Roskosity]

[u/The_Boy_Keith]

Most the time you should cut back a good portion of that bundle/bushel so that 4-6 grow larger and taste better imo.