2024 Ugliest Tomato Contest

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2024 Ugliest Tomato Contest

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Post: # 115312Unread post MissS
Tue Feb 06, 2024 8:57 am

Let's see who grows the most hideous tomato this year.

Show us your ugliest and The Gotch can be the judge of this :lol:
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Tue Feb 06, 2024 12:13 pm

Tudela, Spain has the jump on Tomato Junction:

Dozens Compete In Spain's "UGLIEST TOMATO CONTEST." https://news.yahoo.com/dozens-compete-s ... 40708.html
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Re: 2024 Ugliest Tomato Contest

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Tue Feb 06, 2024 12:16 pm

MissS wrote: Tue Feb 06, 2024 8:57 am Let's see who grows the most hideous tomato this year.
Yeah, buddy!

Glass half full?

Yer Ugliest Tomato hasn't been planted yet!

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Tue Feb 06, 2024 12:52 pm

That I can try and do haha may the best ugly win
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Re: 2024 Ugliest Tomato Contest

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Tue Feb 06, 2024 2:12 pm

So Gotch, is that link telling us that you are putting out a nice big smoked ham to the winner of this pageant? Or are you saying that we all have to grow Marmande tomatoes to be able to enter? I sure hope that you are giving us the ham. We could make ugly ham and tomato sammies.
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Re: 2024 Ugliest Tomato Contest

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Tue Feb 06, 2024 4:21 pm

MissS wrote: Tue Feb 06, 2024 2:12 pm So Gotch, is that link telling us that you are putting out a nice big smoked ham to the winner of this pageant?
A Ham...of The Gotch's choosing ("nice" and "big" are as yet undetermined descriptors)...will be available to the winner.

'Course, if the winner happens to be @Whwoz, @Mark_Thompson, or any other exotic locale TJer, prohibitive shipping costs and international regulations may require that the prize take on a...um...different form:
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It's all about the bragging rights, after all...

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Re: 2024 Ugliest Tomato Contest

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Post: # 115341Unread post Mark_Thompson
Tue Feb 06, 2024 6:01 pm

Mmmm, I like the look of that prize!
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Tue Feb 06, 2024 6:43 pm

Mark_Thompson wrote: Tue Feb 06, 2024 6:01 pm Mmmm, I like the look of that prize!
Should we tell 'em which is the #1 Spam consuming United States state...?

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Post: # 115347Unread post Mark_Thompson
Tue Feb 06, 2024 6:48 pm

Oh they know! Junior and I put down two musubis each for lunch today sitting down at the beach.
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Tue Feb 06, 2024 7:18 pm

@Mark_Thompson As you know there are no rules in these competition threads. It drives some of the members batty though.
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Tue Feb 06, 2024 7:23 pm

I actually like spam haha I make a traditional Hawaiian dish with it no joke haha
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Tue Feb 06, 2024 8:37 pm

I can see a can of spam coming my way for saying this, but I have never had it. :o
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Re: 2024 Ugliest Tomato Contest

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Tue Feb 06, 2024 9:43 pm

Cornelius_Gotchberg wrote: Tue Feb 06, 2024 4:21 pm
MissS wrote: Tue Feb 06, 2024 2:12 pm So Gotch, is that link telling us that you are putting out a nice big smoked ham to the winner of this pageant?
A Ham...of The Gotch's choosing ("nice" and "big" are as yet undetermined descriptors)...will be available to the winner.

'Course, if the winner happens to be @Whwoz, @Mark_Thompson, or any other exotic locale TJer, prohibitive shipping costs and international regulations may require that the prize take on a...um...different form:
spam.jpg

It's all about the bragging rights, after all...

The Gotch

I am sure that the yabbies would apricate the spam if it makes it this far @Cornelius_Gotchberg, I certainly do not like it and there is a fair chance it may come back up faster than it goes down.

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Re: 2024 Ugliest Tomato Contest

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Tue Feb 06, 2024 10:08 pm

I used to hate spam until I lived in Hawaii for 10 years. Took me a while to be convinced to eat it again after I first tried it elsewhere. But when I saw they were eating it crispy fried, with rice, I had to try it. Spam musubis are great yeah @Mark_Thompson ? 😃
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Re: 2024 Ugliest Tomato Contest

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Wed Feb 07, 2024 6:50 am

I had never tried Spam until we threw a tropical themed 75th birthday party for my mother-in-law several years ago. My job was to grill something tropical. Tropical isn't easy to find in small mountain villages in rural New Hampshire. But they did have Spam. So I grilled Spam and pineapple rings on toasted hamburger buns and it was surprisingly delicious. We've made it several times since. I reckon I can grow an ugly tomato or three, and if there is Spam as a prize, count me in!
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Wed Feb 07, 2024 3:14 pm

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Post: # 117596Unread post Mark_Thompson
Sat Mar 02, 2024 11:30 am

For the judges’ consideration I humbly submit three of my winter Green Giants. The wind and rain have certainly been doing a number on them.

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Post: # 117655Unread post Cornelius_Gotchberg
Sun Mar 03, 2024 8:02 am

Yo, Mark...buddy...yer going to have to do a WHOLE_LOT_BETTER than that viewtopic.php?p=77654&hilit=ugliest+tomato#p77654
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Post: # 117657Unread post Mark_Thompson
Sun Mar 03, 2024 8:20 am

Aw come on, just trying to start the ball rolling here! Now if we do an ugliest tomato grower contest I might have a chance…
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Re: 2024 Ugliest Tomato Contest

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Post: # 117659Unread post Cornelius_Gotchberg
Sun Mar 03, 2024 8:35 am

Mark_Thompson wrote: Sun Mar 03, 2024 8:20 amAw come on, just trying to start the ball rolling here!
Noted; just riffin'.
Mark_Thompson wrote: Sun Mar 03, 2024 8:20 amNow if we do an ugliest tomato grower contest I might have a chance…
The Prize Sponsor (SPAM) insist on unretouched submissions only....

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