Reminds me of those old radio mystery stories where the girls were hot, and their skirts were tight, and some seedy private detective always referred to them as “tomatoes.”
Dang, GE. You put her in a dress that’s really a top. You put a squiggly noodle in her hair that makes no sense. You have Dez giving her Dez preschool lectures. Now the woman apparently doesn’t know a cherry tomato when she sees one. Ho hum.
Yeah- no. Some home-grown stuff can be extremely tasty, but it’s by no means guaranteed. The tomatoes that my wife has managed to grow during the pandemic have uniformly looked delicious but been almost devoid of actual flavour. She keeps eating them; it makes her happy. I, for my part, stick to the local supermarket produce.
Hate supermarket tomatoes, they taste like wax. I worked in agriculture. A fair number of commercial tomatoes are sprayed with a hormone that turns them red. Unless 100% organic, you may be eating a green tomato that’s merely “dyed” to look red.
Tomorrow’s use to have a lot of flavor. But then they started to modify the tomatoes to increase their shelf life and make them less vulnerable to insects. As a result they bread a lot of the flavor out. That why heirloom tomato’s taste so good
Tiff, you’re right, a fresh cherry tomato still warm from the afternoon Sun is amazing.
Only thing better is to plant the seeds yourself, watch them sprout in your window box, transplant them carefully to your garden, water them, protect the tender plants from predators, pick off bugs eating the leaves, watch butterflies flit around the small blossoms, see the blossoms turn into growing green marbles, see the green balls redeem and become slightly soft, and THEN pick and bite a tomato warm from the sun. A feeling of pride and gratitude mixed in with the bright taste.
I brought real home grown strawberries to my doctor’s office and people were amazed. They had never had a real strawberry only those plastic supermarket ones.
I love Dez more and more♡♡♡! Her smiling, happy and satisfied face in the last panel is a true image of beauty and happiness ♡. Will Tiffany start gardening on her own? It would certainly be interesting to see.
Now watch. Tiff gets all excited about the garden and starts talking about changing her degree and her father has a fit hearing that her daughter isn’t going to be Ms. Socialite well to do like the Hilton family
That is some character depth for a cartoon….when we are educated by a character being educated…that is a good story….stringing it together for years..that’s genius.
Good ol Dez, she didn’t argue with Tiffany, she just let Tiffany taste the difference between home grown and store bought. Dez is quickly becoming one of my favorite characters in this comic strip.
I’m with Tiff on this one! I’ve tried to grow zucchini THREE TIMES and got nothing but a pretty yellow flower…tried asparagus; waited 4 months just to get a 4 ft tall fringy thing…they make grocery stores just for people like me
Florida has a law that tomatoes exported from the state have to be round and smooth. Not tasty. They don’t care about the taste, they care about what they look like.
My ability as a gardener would leave a mouse starving. However one year I grew a bumper crop of the sweetest cherry tomatoes that sprang up from the corner of my compost bin. The next year I got several pumpkins from the same place that took over a portion of my yard.Too bad I had to leave.
This is SO TRUE!!! I had my very first garden this year (I’m 51 TODAY) and the tomatoes were EXTRAORDINARY! I could not believe how amazing they were. Sadly, because I didn’t stake them, they grew too tall, fell over and didn’t produce too many. But the ones we DID get, OMG!!! I will certainly stake them next year…
Okay, Dez grows and harvests the veggies. TJ makes delicious recipes using the good veggies. Now I see Tiff becoming a media influencer doing Youtube videos. Is this how she goes into business?
Amazing the number and variety of comments about tomatoes, or is it tomaatoes? I don’t have the diacritical on my keyboard. In the supermarkets I go to, even Wal-Mart, you can get all kinds of tomatoes, from beefsteak slicers (which usually don’t have a lot of flavor) to tart cherry tomatoes (which do), but that was not the point of the panels. Tiffany is being reminded or introduced to the simplicity of nature, by an “Earth Mother” type of person. Hopefully it will help Tiffany in her developing of a fuller, more authentic character.
15 years ago close friends, who were moving, asked us to harvest tomatoes they grew in an outdoor hot tub. When I got done I reeked fresh garden tomatoes. Stopped at a local Bashas grocery store in Catalina AZ. The produce manager asked me to fondle their tomatoes on display so they would sell faster.
Nice that Tiff sees the difference in fresh off the vine produce. Like Dez’s comment. Cute. ;-) My grands eat more than they harvest, asparagus especially.
Just don’t grow more than one zucchini plant unless you have a lot of use for it. When you have made as much zucchini bread and other recipes as you ever want to, you have to find something to do with the rest. Your neighbors and co-workers will happily accept some…at first. You leave some in the office break room, where it sits untouched. Finally, it ends on the compost heap.
A hundred years ago a tomato was a hard lumpy fruit that many thought was poisonous. Generations of gardeners turned them into the succulent salad ingredient they are today.
Tiffany has a point. Gardening is much, much work for relatively modest yield more often than not. I understand the gratification factor, but that’s for those who strive for that sort of thing. On the other hand, some of us are indeed content to head to the store and purchase the fruits of their labors. It’s all good.
Has Tiffany’s upbringing been so deprived that she has never tasted a fresh, homegrown tomato (or other produce, fruit or vegetable) before? How sad. But, better late than never; thank you, Dez!
As a kid, I, my siblings, and our cousins would play in our grandmother’s yard all summer. If we got hungry, we’d hit up the garden, grabbing fresh, sun-warmed tomatoes. We’d wipe them off on our shirts, and sit under her pecan trees, letting the juice run down our chins. We’d wash them down with ice cold water, straight from the hand pump. If we wanted something sweet, mulberries, pears, and blackberries were more than abundant.Wonderful times, and memories.
I hate tomatoes. They don’t like me much either. I try to grow them for my wife but some fungus has gotten into my soil and they blight year after year. When I first moved here they were easy to grow.
Templo S.U.D. about 4 years ago
Even the grocery store at which I work has some organic-labeled items.
AnyFace about 4 years ago
Z-bert about 4 years ago
I agree Tiff, nothin’ like a tomato from my garden.
Tyge about 4 years ago
Vine ripe and sweet, Just like Tiffany, 8^ )
Tyge about 4 years ago
Why go to a Supermarket? Because you can’t grow all that stuff all year ‘round! That’s why!
It may not be “farm fresh…” but it’s here… NOW!
Rhetorical_Question about 4 years ago
Ohmygaw! Tiffany discovered “farm fresh” – a future career?
Pointspread about 4 years ago
I do not look forward to eating tomatos I don’t grow. The flavor can’t compare!
Rhetorical_Question about 4 years ago
Desdemona is a regular Horticultural expert.
Airman about 4 years ago
BJShipley1 about 4 years ago
Mmmm, cherry tomatoes are the best.
kenhense about 4 years ago
I see Tiffany keeping ABREST of the situation.
Joe1962 about 4 years ago
That tomatoes is not ready to be pick.
SJhapamama about 4 years ago
Wait until Dez shows Tiff a tomato horn worm! ;-)
GirlGeek Premium Member about 4 years ago
Because you get results like that
Caldonia about 4 years ago
Dang, GE. You put her in a dress that’s really a top. You put a squiggly noodle in her hair that makes no sense. You have Dez giving her Dez preschool lectures. Now the woman apparently doesn’t know a cherry tomato when she sees one. Ho hum.
exarmyofficer about 4 years ago
Is it me or has she lost a few pounds?
Alabama Al about 4 years ago
The only good tomatoes are home grown. You could play baseball with the ones you find in the grocery stores.
Brdshtt Premium Member about 4 years ago
Store bought tomatoes = red water balloons.
fredd13 about 4 years ago
Yeah- no. Some home-grown stuff can be extremely tasty, but it’s by no means guaranteed. The tomatoes that my wife has managed to grow during the pandemic have uniformly looked delicious but been almost devoid of actual flavour. She keeps eating them; it makes her happy. I, for my part, stick to the local supermarket produce.
pekelopan Premium Member about 4 years ago
It looks like Dez and Tiff are hitting it off. Never mind a love interest for Tiff, she just got a new BFF. Hope Tiff picks up some of Dezs’ wisdom.
hersheyjgm about 4 years ago
Haven’t heard the term supermarket in a long time.
Namrepus about 4 years ago
I believe the scientific name is “Freshgrownicus Delicii.”
ForrestOverin about 4 years ago
Annnnnd…. Tiffany’s dress is even SHORTER. If Greg Evans had performed this maneuver with Tiffany’s neckline, it would currently be down to her navel!
EasyEight about 4 years ago
Hate supermarket tomatoes, they taste like wax. I worked in agriculture. A fair number of commercial tomatoes are sprayed with a hormone that turns them red. Unless 100% organic, you may be eating a green tomato that’s merely “dyed” to look red.
CreativeChef about 4 years ago
Tomorrow’s use to have a lot of flavor. But then they started to modify the tomatoes to increase their shelf life and make them less vulnerable to insects. As a result they bread a lot of the flavor out. That why heirloom tomato’s taste so good
ACTIVIST1234 about 4 years ago
Tiff, you’re right, a fresh cherry tomato still warm from the afternoon Sun is amazing.
Only thing better is to plant the seeds yourself, watch them sprout in your window box, transplant them carefully to your garden, water them, protect the tender plants from predators, pick off bugs eating the leaves, watch butterflies flit around the small blossoms, see the blossoms turn into growing green marbles, see the green balls redeem and become slightly soft, and THEN pick and bite a tomato warm from the sun. A feeling of pride and gratitude mixed in with the bright taste.
NeedaChuckle Premium Member about 4 years ago
I brought real home grown strawberries to my doctor’s office and people were amazed. They had never had a real strawberry only those plastic supermarket ones.
Aladar30 Premium Member about 4 years ago
I love Dez more and more♡♡♡! Her smiling, happy and satisfied face in the last panel is a true image of beauty and happiness ♡. Will Tiffany start gardening on her own? It would certainly be interesting to see.
fathergod about 4 years ago
Now watch. Tiff gets all excited about the garden and starts talking about changing her degree and her father has a fit hearing that her daughter isn’t going to be Ms. Socialite well to do like the Hilton family
timclancy Premium Member about 4 years ago
I do not like the chunky Tiff.
BoydAdams about 4 years ago
That is some character depth for a cartoon….when we are educated by a character being educated…that is a good story….stringing it together for years..that’s genius.
tkspring about 4 years ago
Good ol Dez, she didn’t argue with Tiffany, she just let Tiffany taste the difference between home grown and store bought. Dez is quickly becoming one of my favorite characters in this comic strip.
david_42 about 4 years ago
Growing tomatoes is definitely not about saving money, ditto blueberries, figs, strawberries, persimmons, …
dayle2 about 4 years ago
I’m with Tiff on this one! I’ve tried to grow zucchini THREE TIMES and got nothing but a pretty yellow flower…tried asparagus; waited 4 months just to get a 4 ft tall fringy thing…they make grocery stores just for people like me
Ignatz Premium Member about 4 years ago
Florida has a law that tomatoes exported from the state have to be round and smooth. Not tasty. They don’t care about the taste, they care about what they look like.
eladee AKA Wally about 4 years ago
Homegrown is better!!!! But we get lots of local produce from our supermarket as well.
lms1231 Premium Member about 4 years ago
She’s right Nonsupermarketus Tomatoes are the best.
MuddyUSA Premium Member about 4 years ago
Dez’s gardening has become a boring story.
calliarcale about 4 years ago
There is absolutely nothing in the world like freshly picked tomatoes. ;-)
hoffquotes2 about 4 years ago
So will Tiffany start a healthy eating phase and lose weight?
KEA about 4 years ago
“…not one of those cardboard varieties they strip mine in Texas” (or words to that effect) — Garrison Keillor (Tomato Butt)
Bill The Nuke about 4 years ago
My ability as a gardener would leave a mouse starving. However one year I grew a bumper crop of the sweetest cherry tomatoes that sprang up from the corner of my compost bin. The next year I got several pumpkins from the same place that took over a portion of my yard.Too bad I had to leave.
33Angel about 4 years ago
This is SO TRUE!!! I had my very first garden this year (I’m 51 TODAY) and the tomatoes were EXTRAORDINARY! I could not believe how amazing they were. Sadly, because I didn’t stake them, they grew too tall, fell over and didn’t produce too many. But the ones we DID get, OMG!!! I will certainly stake them next year…
ComicsDad5 about 4 years ago
Okay, Dez grows and harvests the veggies. TJ makes delicious recipes using the good veggies. Now I see Tiff becoming a media influencer doing Youtube videos. Is this how she goes into business?
Troglodyte about 4 years ago
I haven’t seen Tiff actually helping Dez so far, but maybe it has happened off-screen?
JPuzzleWhiz about 4 years ago
Rock and roll, he gave you all the best years of his life.
Singer Mac Davis has passed away, at the age of 78.
R.I.P.
CitizenKing about 4 years ago
Ain’t nothin’ in the world that I like better
Than bacon & lettuce & home grown tomatoes
Up in the mornin’ out in the garden
Get you a ripe one don’t get a hard one
luann1212 about 4 years ago
Amazing the number and variety of comments about tomatoes, or is it tomaatoes? I don’t have the diacritical on my keyboard. In the supermarkets I go to, even Wal-Mart, you can get all kinds of tomatoes, from beefsteak slicers (which usually don’t have a lot of flavor) to tart cherry tomatoes (which do), but that was not the point of the panels. Tiffany is being reminded or introduced to the simplicity of nature, by an “Earth Mother” type of person. Hopefully it will help Tiffany in her developing of a fuller, more authentic character.
Banjo Gordy Premium Member about 4 years ago
15 years ago close friends, who were moving, asked us to harvest tomatoes they grew in an outdoor hot tub. When I got done I reeked fresh garden tomatoes. Stopped at a local Bashas grocery store in Catalina AZ. The produce manager asked me to fondle their tomatoes on display so they would sell faster.
locake about 4 years ago
I grew up eating fruits and vegetables fresh from the garden. I have never had a good tomato or cantaloupe since I moved out.
Mordock999 Premium Member about 4 years ago
Scoff if you wish. But Tiff is learning a Heck of a lot more this week from Dez than she ever did in an entire semester of Dr. Fabbi’s class.
Hopefully Dez will sell some of the harvest at the local farmers market and donate the proceeds to the poor.
And if Tiff accompanies her, while wearing that dress, those veggies should sell out faster than Nvidia RTX 3080 cards. ;)
Ellis97 about 4 years ago
Dez is the guardian of the garden.
Johnnyrico about 4 years ago
“I fertilize them with my own poop, Tiff.”
katzpawz1a about 4 years ago
Good Grief! Picky, picky, picky!!!
YorkGirl Premium Member about 4 years ago
Nice that Tiff sees the difference in fresh off the vine produce. Like Dez’s comment. Cute. ;-) My grands eat more than they harvest, asparagus especially.
NatureBatsLast about 4 years ago
Anybody ever read: Hard Time Hard Tomato’s
shamest Premium Member about 4 years ago
Tiffs world is opening
jbarnes about 4 years ago
Just don’t grow more than one zucchini plant unless you have a lot of use for it. When you have made as much zucchini bread and other recipes as you ever want to, you have to find something to do with the rest. Your neighbors and co-workers will happily accept some…at first. You leave some in the office break room, where it sits untouched. Finally, it ends on the compost heap.
mistercatworks about 4 years ago
A hundred years ago a tomato was a hard lumpy fruit that many thought was poisonous. Generations of gardeners turned them into the succulent salad ingredient they are today.
Brdshtt Premium Member about 4 years ago
Just wait ‘till Tiff accidentally steps in Dez’ benjo ditch…
BlitzMcD about 4 years ago
Tiffany has a point. Gardening is much, much work for relatively modest yield more often than not. I understand the gratification factor, but that’s for those who strive for that sort of thing. On the other hand, some of us are indeed content to head to the store and purchase the fruits of their labors. It’s all good.
SueMount about 4 years ago
It is a grape tomato. I used to grow them. They are better than cherry tomatoes.
bakana about 4 years ago
If you work enough Horse Manure into the soil before planting, you get amazing Nonsupermarketus Tomatoes.
beb01 about 4 years ago
I kind of wonder when or if this story is going to bend back to TJ and his cooking the Ferrall house? I think I’ve had enough of Gardening 101
Schrodinger's Dog about 4 years ago
tomorrow: more salad!!!
Sisyphos about 4 years ago
Has Tiffany’s upbringing been so deprived that she has never tasted a fresh, homegrown tomato (or other produce, fruit or vegetable) before? How sad. But, better late than never; thank you, Dez!
Dragoncat about 4 years ago
Where does Tiffany think the supermarkets get…?
Never mind.
Rhetorical_Question about 4 years ago
The only background information on Dez is that she is from New York and is attending Mooney University with an undeclared major.
https://www.gocomics.com/luann/2014/08/22
Dae about 4 years ago
As a kid, I, my siblings, and our cousins would play in our grandmother’s yard all summer. If we got hungry, we’d hit up the garden, grabbing fresh, sun-warmed tomatoes. We’d wipe them off on our shirts, and sit under her pecan trees, letting the juice run down our chins. We’d wash them down with ice cold water, straight from the hand pump. If we wanted something sweet, mulberries, pears, and blackberries were more than abundant.Wonderful times, and memories.
Seed_drill about 4 years ago
I hate tomatoes. They don’t like me much either. I try to grow them for my wife but some fungus has gotten into my soil and they blight year after year. When I first moved here they were easy to grow.