Take one: fun-shaped produce
On Wednesday, Lynn Barksdale of Wenatchee dropped by The World offices to show us a handful of his tomatoes. Or, I should say, two hand-fulls of one tomato. The avid tomato gardener was thrilled with a recent pick from what we determined to be a beefsteak tomato plant. He brought with him a huge misshapen tomato. It looked really tasty and I was surprised it lasted from his garden to downtown Wenatchee without at least one bite missing.
Barksdale says he gives his funky-shaped produce names. He named this one Michael Jackson because, “tomatoes just don’t get any uglier than that.” He had a couple of other unripe tomatoes from the same plant that appeared to be on their way to growing up to be just as odd if they’d had the chance to stay on the vine.
Neither one of us had a scale to weigh “Michael Jackson” but Barksdale said he and his wife determined that it weighed just about the same as a 32-ounce bottle of something-rather. A friend suggested Barksdale could have won a prize at the fair. I’m no fair judge, so I’m not sure, but it was fun anyway.
How about you? Have you grown any tomatoes-that-remind-you-of-Michael Jackson or potatoes-that-look-like-Nixon lately? What do you do with your entertaining produce? Does it get eaten, photographed, accessorized, sold on eBay? Does it go unregarded?
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ROFL
“Michael Jackson”
Thats just awesome.