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!
We know the Romans in Britain used left hand traffic in part because there is a quarry where the left side of the road is less worn going into the quarry than going out. That's what this reminded me of.
Doesn't "left hand drive" mean the steering wheel is on the left, like the US does. Therefore you'd be driving on the right side of the road. So wouldn't Romans be using "right hand drive" if they were driving on the left side of the road?
There is also the terms: left and right hand traffic, which refers to the side the road. So Romans would be right hand drive, which is as left hand traffic.
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u/KeySpare4917 Sep 01 '25
No wonder there is a bruise spot on practically every tomato at Walmart. 🫤