2024 Ugliest Tomato Contest
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2024 Ugliest Tomato Contest
Let's see who grows the most hideous tomato this year.
Show us your ugliest and The Gotch can be the judge of this
Show us your ugliest and The Gotch can be the judge of this
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Re: 2024 Ugliest Tomato Contest
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 THE_GAUNTLET_HAS_BEEN_THROWN_DOWN...to paraphrase Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas in Wall Street):
This Is Your Wake-Up Call, TJers; GO_TO_WORK
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Dozens Compete In Spain's "UGLIEST TOMATO CONTEST." https://news.yahoo.com/dozens-compete-s ... 40708.html THE_GAUNTLET_HAS_BEEN_THROWN_DOWN...to paraphrase Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas in Wall Street):
This Is Your Wake-Up Call, TJers; GO_TO_WORK
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Re: 2024 Ugliest Tomato Contest
Yeah, buddy!
Glass half full?
Yer Ugliest Tomato hasn't been planted yet!
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Re: 2024 Ugliest Tomato Contest
That I can try and do haha may the best ugly win
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Re: 2024 Ugliest Tomato Contest
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
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: It's all about the bragging rights, after all...
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Re: 2024 Ugliest Tomato Contest
Mmmm, I like the look of that prize!
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Re: 2024 Ugliest Tomato Contest
Should we tell 'em which is the #1 Spam consuming United States state...?
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Re: 2024 Ugliest Tomato Contest
Oh they know! Junior and I put down two musubis each for lunch today sitting down at the beach.
@MissS sorry for derailing this thread so badly!
@MissS sorry for derailing this thread so badly!
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Re: 2024 Ugliest Tomato Contest
@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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Re: 2024 Ugliest Tomato Contest
I actually like spam haha I make a traditional Hawaiian dish with it no joke haha
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Re: 2024 Ugliest Tomato Contest
I can see a can of spam coming my way for saying this, but I have never had it.
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Re: 2024 Ugliest Tomato Contest
Cornelius_Gotchberg wrote: ↑Tue Feb 06, 2024 4:21 pmA 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...
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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
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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Will eat anything once before I judge.
Anything meaning any foods of course.
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Re: 2024 Ugliest Tomato Contest
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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Re: 2024 Ugliest Tomato Contest
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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Re: 2024 Ugliest Tomato Contest
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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Re: 2024 Ugliest Tomato Contest
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
Noted; just riffin'.Mark_Thompson wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2024 8:20 amAw come on, just trying to start the ball rolling here!
The Prize Sponsor (SPAM) insist on unretouched submissions only....Mark_Thompson wrote: ↑Sun Mar 03, 2024 8:20 amNow if we do an ugliest tomato grower contest I might have a chance…
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