Nothing better.
Decent white bread, a little mayonaise, and a couple slices of a Brandywine tomato two minutes from the vine.
MMMM!!!
Makes me want to keep this picture for a screen saver...
And to accompany your meal, here are some folks singing about it
at the Northwest Folklife Fest 2006,
Jay Mary performing Home Grown Tomatoes:
UPDATE: if my link doesn't work on your system, the video easy to find here:
http://www.youtube.com/v/U1BBl-d0Gb4
The song that says it all, written by Guy Clark (link here)
Ain't nothin' in the world that I like better
Than bacon & lettuce & homegrown tomatoes
Up in the mornin' out in the garden
Get you a ripe one don't get a hard one
Plant `em in the spring eat `em in the summer
All winter with out `em's a culinary bummer
I forget all about the sweatin' & diggin'
Everytime I go out & pick me a big one
Homegrown tomatoes homegrown tomatoes
What'd life be without homegrown tomatoes
Only two things that money can't buy
That's true love & homegrown tomatoes
You can go out to eat & that's for sure
But it's nothin' a homegrown tomato won't cure
Put `em in a salad, put `em in a stew
You can make your very own tomato juice
Eat `em with egss, eat `em with gravy
Eat `em with beans, pinto or navy
Put `em on the site put `em in the middle
Put a homegrown tomato on a hotcake griddle
If I's to change this life I lead
I'd be Johnny Tomato Seed
`Cause I know what this country needs
Homegrown tomatoes in every yard you see
When I die don't bury me
In a box in a cemetary
Out in the garden would be much better
I could be pushin' up homegrown tomatoes
