I don’t eat an awful lot of tomatoes, compared to some people. Still, I like a few tomato wedges in my salads, and sometimes a tomato sandwich serves as a quick lunch.
But compared to those with large families and people who cultivate dozens of tomato plants to make tomato sauce, I don’t really go big into tomatoes, at least not nowadays.
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