MATERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've been a bit bummed about all the bad news lately, so, it's time to lighten up with a food post.

One of the few things that the have nots can occasionally enjoy equally with the haves is food, and, more specifically, home grown food. While Biff Wellington IV is busy enjoying his $200 an ounce boiled Mongolian bat nutbag hair and thinking it's a delicacy, Joe Six Pack is plucking a ripe tomato from the garden and getting ready to commune with nature.

For most of us, there is nothing more delicious than a fresh tomato sandwich or a fresh bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich.

For sammich maters, I prefer Better Boy, Big Beef or Beefsteak tomatos, sliced thick, sprinkled with salt and pepper on white or Italian bread with mayo. As for my BLT's.......thick sliced, smoked Smithfield bacon, fresh iceberg lettuce and thick sliced tomatos....again sprinkled with salt and pepper.

Besides the taste, there is nothing that can beat the smell of a garden ripened tomato. Before I pick one of those red, delicious globes I take a long sniff while it's still on the vine and again after I gently tug it off the vine. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Yellow and heirloom tomatos can be tasty too. I'm also a fan of fried green tomatos. I slice 'em paper thin, batter 'em up and pan fry 'em. De-lish, squared.

Some other things which are nice to do with fresh, homegrown tomatos are to slice up some maters, add fresh chopped basil, fresh mozzarella cheese and some olive oil and salt and pepper to taste and add toasted bread of you choice....Bruschetta extraordinaire!! I also enjoy just taking a big bite out of those suckers or slicing them up and just adding some salt and pepper. Again, MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Now for a bit of rather useless trivia. Is the tomato a fruit or vegetable? Since a tomato is the seeds AND ovary of a flowering plant, botanically it's a fruit. Due to a tariff issue arising from an 1887 U.S. tariff law which imposed a duty on imported vegetables, but not fruits, the Supreme Court ruled on May 10, 1893 that for legal purposes only, the tomato is a vegetable.

Fruit or vegetable, they still taste great!!!

I'd be much obliged to read how y'all enjoy yer maters.