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Ugly Is In, Even In the Produce World

Tue, 09/25/2007 - 9:13am by YumSugar
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Each year the folks at Santa Sweets hold an Ugly Tomato contest. The contest, which is to celebrate their UglyRipe variety of tomatoes, brought in many entries that they actually named eleven winners. The tomatoes were yellow, red, green and some contained many weird lumps. The odd shaped fruit surprised everyone, including Joe Procacci, CEO of Procacci Brothers Sales Corp (the parent company to Santa Sweets), who had this to say:

"I've been in the tomato-growing business for over 60 years and I have never seen tomatoes this ugly!"

Here are a few of my favorites, but be sure to check out all the winners when you have a chance.

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21 Comments Add a Comment

  • ImJessica's picture
    ImJessica
    5

    I love tomatoes, but that top close-up made me lose my appetite for them.

    49 weeks 5 days ago Report Comment
  • GiggleSugar's picture
    GiggleSugar
    8

    I have issues with tomatoes to begin with; this one's going to give me nightmares. Shocked

    49 weeks 5 days ago Report Comment
  • kiwitwist's picture
    kiwitwist
    9

    That is incredibly ugly and scary!! Glad I already ate lunch and no tomatoes! LOL!

    49 weeks 5 days ago Report Comment
  • nancita's picture
    nancita
    10

    Wow, the green one is seriously ugly. I love the idea of celebrating ugly fruit, though. Just because fruit looks perfect doesn't mean it's healthier or better.

    49 weeks 5 days ago Report Comment
  • luvbugg's picture
    luvbugg
    14

    Oh Gross that is disgusting...i think i just threw up a lil in my mouth! HA! Gross!!!!!

    49 weeks 5 days ago Report Comment
  • freegracefrom's picture
    freegracefrom
    16

    GROSS. I'm probably going to have nightmares tonight, along the lines of the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.

    49 weeks 5 days ago Report Comment
  • 7bits's picture
    7bits
    17

    49 weeks 5 days ago Report Comment
  • nlw's picture
    nlw
    19

    Geez, some of those look like a nasty case of hemroids!!

    49 weeks 4 days ago Report Comment
  • tdamji's picture
    tdamji
    21

    i have tomato issues too so yeah, this is totally turning me off. Sticking out tongue

    49 weeks 3 days ago Report Comment

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