I tried 3 times – changing the wording and was blocked every time.
you are not allowed to criticise companies in switzerland!
They’re not really in season yet. Should get better starting in a few weeks.
You mean the migros, coop monopoly plus very little consumer awareness and rights in this country is not a barrier to sharing legitimate feedback?
You need to write more about it and to be honest thats good rules because the quality of the posts is now on another level. Reddit is not Twitter. You could also add a photo of the tomatoes and Etikett because i have no clue what sort , are they really from Swtzerland, which region was they cheap or which store, you see you could add easy a lot of more informations then this tomatoes are shit talk.
Are we talking about Swiss tomatoes or about tomatoes that you buy in Switzerland?
Because imported tomatoes are typically from southern Europe (Spain, Italy) where they had droughts earlier this year.
And Swiss tomatoes are mostly coming from greenhouses, and if they’re already marketed this time of the year they probably haven’t yet reached peak quality. May is not a “natural” time of the year for harvesting tomatoes in Swiss climate. (Yeah, I know that tomatoes are not a “natural” plant for Switzerland at all ;-))
Besides this it’s not like Migros, Coop & Co have big restraints when it comes to selling subpar fruits & veggies 😉
Bro uncovered the secrets of the tomato lobbies single-handedly
Tomatotrails 5g
Big tomato is on to you. You better watch your back
Swiss is full of tomatoes
Maybe we should take some spain tomatos and trow it to the swiss banks and say
Do a better job and make swiss great again for free
they can’t handle the truth
IDK, maybe low effort post? I cross-posted a video of the steam boat on lake Geneva and I was too lazy to write a comment explaining why a video of an impressive historic steam engine manufactured in Winterthur was relevant to Switzerland. Boom instantly removed!
Perhaps the mod is connected to any Swiss tomato grower, farmer, or political lobby group.
Modern tomatoes are not grown for flavour, rather to have a longer shelf life (if you do some research, you can learn quite a lot about it).
If you have ever had a freshly picked ripe tomatoe out of a garden, you will notice that 99.99% of supermarket tomatoes taste like turnips… Same goes for other Climateric fruit, they are “gassed” (ethylene) to get it to ripen / turn it red. Hence why it looks nice but has zero flavour.
Not to mention the apples and pears that are picked and sent to storage, rather than to the supermarkets, because they still have some of last year’s in cold storage that they need to get rid of..
If you want real fruit and veg, buy in season and buy from a farmer’s market or local market, you may have a chance of getting something closer to what it should taste like. But be careful, even Farmer’s Markets sometimes sell veg from elsewhere to fill demand…
Dude, walk away while you still can, Swiss banks and pharma are just fronts for Big Tomato, you _really_ don’t want to poke that bear
Reading through this thread and OP’s comments I start asking myself if OP got beaten up in school to often or not often enough…
Are you saying you haven’t heard of the STM/ Swiss Tomato Mafia? They basically control everything here…
We at “Evil Tomato Corp.” don’t like this kind of slander.
The League of Swiss Tomatoes — they have a reputation to keep.
The mods are under the control of the tomato gang. Try to betray us and we’ll ketchyouup.
Tomatoes in Switzerland in general are really not great, if you come from a southern country. My Spanish and Italian friends complain a lot about them hahaha.
As an Englishman, I must say that the tomatoes here are comparatively fantastic to what I’m used to, if in season.
Pretty sure the ‘tomato lobby’ isn’t monitoring Reddit. We have zero influence.
Post length rules are pretty ridiculous when there’s no character count in the composition window.
And yes: i recently noticed as well that tomatoes from Coop and Migros. Makes me not want to eat tomatoes for a long while
What is this love of endless walls of text in the title at the expense of no body?
Just create a more succinct title and put the rest in the body.
I shill for big tomato
I had some terrible mealy ones this week but stricly speaking they are not yet in season
If you find Kumatos, try them. It’s a Syngenta product, but they taste great IMO.
The “expensive” ones are good!
Yes. Keep talking about this and we will silence you.
He found us guys, what should we do?
Probably the Dutch tomato lobby;), most off season tomatoes are from there. They don‘t grow on ground. Research a bit, you‘ll see. Minimum input, maximum profit but the taste ( lack of) is the price.. Wait another month or two and you‘ll get Swiss tomatoes, grown on ground in the summer sun. They taste different but go to a Bio market to get them.
This is discrimination against tomatoes! How come bell peppers are not affected!
There was a bad tomato harvest last harvest season in Southern Europe, this has caused a knock-on effect.
Dude, you are being censored by the Gazpacho police. Under no circumstances will they let you say anything against the state of red fruits of a certain variety.
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I tried 3 times – changing the wording and was blocked every time.
you are not allowed to criticise companies in switzerland!
They’re not really in season yet. Should get better starting in a few weeks.
You mean the migros, coop monopoly plus very little consumer awareness and rights in this country is not a barrier to sharing legitimate feedback?
You need to write more about it and to be honest thats good rules because the quality of the posts is now on another level. Reddit is not Twitter. You could also add a photo of the tomatoes and Etikett because i have no clue what sort , are they really from Swtzerland, which region was they cheap or which store, you see you could add easy a lot of more informations then this tomatoes are shit talk.
Are we talking about Swiss tomatoes or about tomatoes that you buy in Switzerland?
Because imported tomatoes are typically from southern Europe (Spain, Italy) where they had droughts earlier this year.
And Swiss tomatoes are mostly coming from greenhouses, and if they’re already marketed this time of the year they probably haven’t yet reached peak quality. May is not a “natural” time of the year for harvesting tomatoes in Swiss climate. (Yeah, I know that tomatoes are not a “natural” plant for Switzerland at all ;-))
Besides this it’s not like Migros, Coop & Co have big restraints when it comes to selling subpar fruits & veggies 😉
Bro uncovered the secrets of the tomato lobbies single-handedly
Tomatotrails 5g
Big tomato is on to you. You better watch your back
Swiss is full of tomatoes
Maybe we should take some spain tomatos and trow it to the swiss banks and say
Do a better job and make swiss great again for free
they can’t handle the truth
IDK, maybe low effort post? I cross-posted a video of the steam boat on lake Geneva and I was too lazy to write a comment explaining why a video of an impressive historic steam engine manufactured in Winterthur was relevant to Switzerland. Boom instantly removed!
Perhaps the mod is connected to any Swiss tomato grower, farmer, or political lobby group.
Modern tomatoes are not grown for flavour, rather to have a longer shelf life (if you do some research, you can learn quite a lot about it).
If you have ever had a freshly picked ripe tomatoe out of a garden, you will notice that 99.99% of supermarket tomatoes taste like turnips… Same goes for other Climateric fruit, they are “gassed” (ethylene) to get it to ripen / turn it red. Hence why it looks nice but has zero flavour.
Not to mention the apples and pears that are picked and sent to storage, rather than to the supermarkets, because they still have some of last year’s in cold storage that they need to get rid of..
If you want real fruit and veg, buy in season and buy from a farmer’s market or local market, you may have a chance of getting something closer to what it should taste like. But be careful, even Farmer’s Markets sometimes sell veg from elsewhere to fill demand…
Dude, walk away while you still can, Swiss banks and pharma are just fronts for Big Tomato, you _really_ don’t want to poke that bear
Reading through this thread and OP’s comments I start asking myself if OP got beaten up in school to often or not often enough…
Are you saying you haven’t heard of the STM/ Swiss Tomato Mafia? They basically control everything here…
We at “Evil Tomato Corp.” don’t like this kind of slander.
The League of Swiss Tomatoes — they have a reputation to keep.
The mods are under the control of the tomato gang. Try to betray us and we’ll ketchyouup.
Tomatoes in Switzerland in general are really not great, if you come from a southern country. My Spanish and Italian friends complain a lot about them hahaha.
As an Englishman, I must say that the tomatoes here are comparatively fantastic to what I’m used to, if in season.
Not on purpose, but tomatoes had the DNA responsible for the taste destroyed. Scientists are actually trying to fix it again, this was found out i believe around 3 years ago. If i eat a tomato from our land in the south of italy, it’s alrdy much different but still dyluted compared to 10 years ago.
https://www.businessinsider.com/we-accidentally-ruined-the-way-tomatoes-taste-by-breeding-them-to-be-bright-red-2012-6?r=US&IR=T
Just the first post i found, ull find more.
Pretty sure the ‘tomato lobby’ isn’t monitoring Reddit. We have zero influence.
Post length rules are pretty ridiculous when there’s no character count in the composition window.
And yes: i recently noticed as well that tomatoes from Coop and Migros. Makes me not want to eat tomatoes for a long while
What is this love of endless walls of text in the title at the expense of no body?
Just create a more succinct title and put the rest in the body.
I shill for big tomato
I had some terrible mealy ones this week but stricly speaking they are not yet in season
If you find Kumatos, try them. It’s a Syngenta product, but they taste great IMO.
The “expensive” ones are good!
Yes. Keep talking about this and we will silence you.
He found us guys, what should we do?
Probably the Dutch tomato lobby;), most off season tomatoes are from there. They don‘t grow on ground. Research a bit, you‘ll see. Minimum input, maximum profit but the taste ( lack of) is the price.. Wait another month or two and you‘ll get Swiss tomatoes, grown on ground in the summer sun. They taste different but go to a Bio market to get them.
This is discrimination against tomatoes! How come bell peppers are not affected!
There was a bad tomato harvest last harvest season in Southern Europe, this has caused a knock-on effect.
Dude, you are being censored by the Gazpacho police. Under no circumstances will they let you say anything against the state of red fruits of a certain variety.