Sexy Tomatoes

 Do ya ever find somethin' special out in your garden?  Ya know? Some fruit or vegetable that has that extra somethin', that certain star personality?  And you say to yourself, I BET FOLKS WILL JUST EAT YOU UP!  YOU DARLIN'!

Tomatoes purty much always only like their own kind. They’ll MIX with the other tomatoes including the red and the yellow 1000's, those yellow pear babies, and sometimes, on occasion, a cherry will somehow get in there with the Big Boys. Things get very interesting in the tomatoe patch. Things get outa control there just like anywhere's else.  But they are very clannish, ya know? Tomatoes - even the old money 'maters, the heirloom varieties , sometimes maybe make a tiny “mistake” and presto! A real star of a tomatoe is born! Funny lookin’ maybe, but there is a certain sweetness about these cute little misfits. Terribly sexy, really, these guys, and how'd they get that way?

A tomatoe's fate like with us human hippos is also kinda planned out before they even get onto their plant. Their particular looks and taste and even SMELL depend on the bees and other little bugs who dance around the tiny tomatoe flowers and kinda mix things up - out in the tomatoe patch. So gardeners, when they plant the little seeds or seedlings are semi-careful about which plants go in the garden plot. At least they try to get those tomatoes perfect - all round, plump, sexy, etc.

The normal tomatoe, all he gotta do is hang on for dear life and grow from a little, tiny green bud, into the kinda fruit they was meant to be!

I been around these here tomatoes enough, lately, to find a few unusual and therefore, SPECIAL tomatoe treasures and although these twins have been around for some time now I just couldn’t let them go without the getting whole story.

REALLY! I have never, ever, found a tomatoe could measure up to these 2, and I hope you’ll like them too - and their story, as they play out their destiny for us in their saucey little way! )~

“Tip Tomatoe and Toe Tomatoe!" They just looked liked they needed names! Couldn't help myself!

THE TINY TWIN TOMATOES! Discovered recently here, were sort of hanging out in the dark, not actually in a park, but somewhere near some oak tree, I gather, as there were these acorns and oak leaves and stuff they were tryin' to hide with. So I brought them all in, them and their little friends. And for awhile they were content to just sit around and smile and look down on the acorns. While I snapped a few shots.

They called those ol' acorns their “on-tour-ahj” so I had to bring them on in and they helped give those little boys courage and determination to get their pichurs took. I have also discovered that they do have a rawwwther delightful home in the garden state, the tomatoe state, the place where they come from - yes, IN THE RAW! - FRESH from CALIFORNIA! THE

TOMATOE TWINS! Too tiny to be a Big Boy, too big to be cherries, and with that certain something that we all scream for. . . sex appeal! Ya.

A breath of fresh air, they were, yes indeedy! but UNFORTUNATELY, TOMATOE FAME is short-lived, and so the story of these two is also a short but sweet one.

So things were going along pretty well, they hadn’t actually hit the spotlight yet, they were a big hit with all the fans who seemed to know them at first sight. We were just working on their head shots and they were taking on their own “attitude” - la la la la la - when these two craaaazy tomatoes started to argue over the spelling for their name - should it be Tomato? Or Tomatoe? The matter of one little “e” came between them, you see, so I had to split them up. That one little bully of a tomatoe, Tip,refused to budge and so Toe Tomato walked out without the “e“. It was too hard to keep them together. I didn’t even try.

TOE TOMATO broke away - we found him next with his old corny friend, who it seemed was the lady of his dreams until the impossibility of that relationship finally dawned on him. She had aged, beyond his reckoning even, and then, there was the matter of her horrid hair! He had to roll himself out of THATsituation, sister!

I couldn't help him none with that! Told him "Stick with your OWN KIND Toe!" And I did understand how he felt different and all. Hardly anyone knew about it - but we just happen to have a very reliable papparassi feller who got these tender pics for us.

Well sir, after that sad ending to what should have been a flavorful "commingling", Toe Tomato lived alone, sad and lonely, out of the spotlight for awhile. He pondered his bad luck with relationships.

MEANWHILE, back in the kitchen, Tip Tomatoe did have a tiny fling at his solo act, but without Toe, he just had the worst STAGE FRIGHT! Couldn't even come up with words for one new single. So he had was planning to give that up. He’d made quite a few friends among the other veggies and hung out with them for quite awhile, rehearsing their ensemble acts.  Fell in with a couple bad apples and they tried to sell their sound.  He was on contract all this time to IGA.

And then one day, Toe came on back to the "kitchen" with his old wife and his little daughter in tow and there should have been a happy reunion, but Tip, by then, was so disgusted with the whole scene he refused to meet his own brother’s family! So they had another fallin' out.

Now, I don’t know what happened to that happy little family scene.  Some say it was Toe’s fault , marryin' an older woman, others say it was because he’d married too far below of his class! Why she was so low, she had no name at all! Alls I know is, they didn't last!

Nowadays, the twins are back together although no one knows how long they'll last.  Rumor is they're workin on some new show and a video.  We're stayin tuned.  Can hardly wait to see what they'll sound like! AND PLUS can hardly wait to find out what that old corn and her new friends will come up with.  Some folks are already sayin' my boys are goin' bad!  Don't you believe it!  They just the sweetest pair you'll ever find.  And in case you were thinkin' you'd grap some of their stuff and make it your own - hell, there ain't 'nuf to go around, yet.

Keep your forks to yourself, kids, these two are mine!  If you want an interview, you gotta get in touch with me - I still got the 'sclusive contract on the tomatoe twins, an' I'm hangin' onto it.