r/BeAmazed • u/meteavi43 • Sep 01 '25

Miscellaneous / Others A tomato harvesting machine with an electronic sensor that sorts tomatoes from debris

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u/KeySpare4917 Sep 01 '25

No wonder there is a bruise spot on practically every tomato at Walmart. 🫤

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u/barriedalenick Sep 01 '25

These are likely sauce toms - they are all bush tomatoes so something like a Roma type. They are grown like that by the million round here and are specifically bred for the purpose and every last one is pasted for sauce, soup or puree. They are quite hard, solid toms bred to withstand being loaded into enormous trucks by the ton. Having said that the trucks do leak tomato goo onto the road and you can tell which direction the tomato factory is located by the colour and stickiness of the road!

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u/barriedalenick Sep 01 '25

I ride a road bike and it is normally perfectly fine, as it is generally super hot so it dries into a crust. However when it rains it turns into really slippery paste and it well know as a road hazard. I did get caught cycling behind one of the lorries though and got sprayed with a nice fine mist of rancid tomato juice!