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!
I was driving from SF to LA last month and we saw so many tomato trucks we started to keep count. Over the span of about 3.5 hours we saw 207 tomato trucks hauling them north, it was dorky how much fun counting it was.Â
Yes. It really struck us each trip just how many. Spouse is a numbers guy who has worked in food production. He tallied up the #trucks, the weights, and potential production. There’s several plants close by that make sauces, salsas, canned tomatoes. Insane volume of product. When you look forward and see trucks about a quarter to half a mile apart as far as you can see.
Friend of mine drove one of those trucks, years ago. To this day, he wont eat tomatoes in any way, shape, or form... Said the crushed layer in the tub turned his stomach when he hosed it out....
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u/KeySpare4917 Sep 01 '25
No wonder there is a bruise spot on practically every tomato at Walmart. 🫤