On Thursday, May 21, 2020 at 2:22:47 AM UTC-4, Bod wrote:
Tomato skins seem to be getting tougher over the last 10 years or so.
Perhaps they have bred them like that to prevent insects eating them.
Anyone else agree?

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Bod

Probably depends on what tomatoes you're talking about. Here the ones
we get in summer are different than winter ones. The difference used to
be much worse a few decades ago. If anything, the winter ones, which are
the firmer, tougher ones, have gotten better here. The hothouse grown
ones now are at least edible. Those are typically shipped long distances
and have to last long enough for the supermarket, so they are developed
to have those characteristics. Transportable, durable comes at the
cost of not being as soft and tasty. They used to ship them partially
green and then gas them at the supermarket or distributor to ripen them,
IDK if they still do that.