>>21401712
Mass farmed tomatoes just taste like slight acidity and nothing else. They are farmed for maximum possible volume, not flavor. Even the fanciest organic ones.
I used to think both tomatoes and cucumbers were shitty until I tried some that I grew myself. When the plant grows in its own soil without being forced to produce water-bloated fruits as fast as possible, and without competing with 6,000,000 other plants, you get tasty fruit. The tomatoes I've grown had a really pronounced savoury flavor. There's a tiny hint of this in store bought tomatoes, but it might as well not be there. They taste great by themselves and the sauce they produce tastes amazing. The cucumbers I've grown had a defined cucumber flavor. Similarly to the tomato, that flavor is present as a hint in store cucumbers, but is barely detectable. Whereas the home grown cucumber was actually enjoyable to eat all on its own. Pretty much all produce is like this. Another example are mushrooms, which taste like nothing from the store but have a great flavor if wild foraged.
