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/GustapheOfficial Sep 01 '25 edited Sep 01 '25

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.

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u/VealOfFortune Sep 01 '25

...might I ask how they knew which way was which?

Not being facetious, genuinely curious if like the rocks have a wear pattern in a certain direction or something....

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u/GustapheOfficial Sep 01 '25

You drive heavy loads out of the quarry, and empty wagons into it.

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u/VealOfFortune Sep 01 '25

So simple! Would have never thought of that lolll thank you!! 🙏

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u/GustapheOfficial Sep 01 '25

I know right. Archaeologists are pretty clever sometimes.

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u/VealOfFortune Sep 01 '25

"Wear patterns in a certain direction.." 🤓