First BLT of the season!

I could wait no longer, and fixed a BLT for breakfast this morning. Put it on an English muffin, which made it breakfasty. That way the breakfast police would let it pass - - not like I was eating a plate of spaghetti or something.

Anyway, before you get all excited, I'll have to admit that I used a STORE-BOUGHT tomato. I know, the horrors. It was actually one of those "cluster" tomatoes, you know, the kind that have four or five small tomatoes, still connected on the vine. Gorgeous color of red. Now, I'm worldly enough to know that those tomatoes were probably as green as Herman Munster when the vine was snipped. But that way, once they do turn red, the tomatoes can be advertised as "vine ripened." Tricky marketing people.

You know, now that I think about it, what happens to the productivity of the plant once the vine has been brutally severed? Wait a minute! I think I'm developing a moral objection to cluster tomatoes! Holy oregano! I never thought about it before.

So, now that I'm not buying any more cluster tomatoes ("Save the Tomato Plants! Stop Senseless Sever-ation!"), I guess I'll have to wait until my tomatoes ripen. After I write my congressman.

I do have some cherry tomatoes coming along nicely. Then again, they might be "grape" tomatoes. I never heard of grape tomatoes until just a few years ago. Wonder how they came about. Maybe the Grape Growers Group (GGG) decided that cherries were getting all the attention - - what with Cherry Tomatoes, Cherry Coke, hot fudge sundaes ("Would you like a cherry with that?"), and Santa Claus with his dimples (how merry) and nose like a cherry. My guess is, the GGG had just had it and started promoting GRAPE tomatoes. Like we wouldn't see through it. HA.

Well, enough rambling for today. I will tell you that my Breakfast BLT was quite delicious, with the English muffin toasted just so, and the perfect amount of Duke's mayo (gotta be the Duke). The tomatoes were merely satisfactory, nowhere near exemplary. That will come, my friends. Good fruit is coming!


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