Wizard of Id Classics by Parker and Hart for June 19, 2022

Well, (s)he who puts tomatoes in a fruit salad will soon know better.

Mmm, tomato fruit salad

“What’s for dinner?”

“A tomato.”

“The pickers pick them. The farmers pack them. The shippers ship them. The distributors distribute them to the store…”

Instead of saying, “The store sells them to you,” he should have said “The store stores them. The salesperson sells them to you.”

Means Blanche makes fewer market visits which will please the guy who sells them.

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put tomatoes in a fruit salad.

Tomato, tomahto, let’s just leave it at that.

If you do buy tomatoes and save the seeds, make sure they are NOT hybrids. You may get plants but the tomatoes will NOT be like the original one. Buy heirloom or open-pollinated as they WILL come true to seed.

I prefer tomatoes I grow myself. The hothouse tomatoes don’t have as much flavor.

And all those little bits are percents.. with the farmer starting at 3~5% of next to nothing and by the time you get it from the store it’s up to 100~200% of what it started at.

Home grown is better anyway. They can truly ripen to a genuine ripeness unlike the ones you get in stores because they pick them not so ripe to not get damaged in shipping and waiting to be sold. ( like all other fruits) Otherwise they are only good for canning and canning factories don’t pay as much as fresh produce buyers.

And Biden has replaced the King and brought inflation with him.

Pick it, pack it, fire it up, come aloooong…

All vegetables (not Tubers, they aren’t vegetables) are fruits. “Fruit” is a botanical designation. “Vegetable” is a grocer designation…