Many, many years ago, we use to stop at the local farm stands in New Jersey and buy tomatoes. These were the farm stands at the end of the driveway, next to the road, of the farm that actually grew the tomatoes they were selling. I ate many a tomato sandwich made with "Jersey" tomatoes as a kid. They were delicious. As I got older, my understanding is these were Rutgers tomatoes.
Those stands are still prominent along the roadways, but the tomato boxes stacked in the back saying "Product of Mexico" says it all.
Now having said all that, I haven't grown a Rutgers tomato in 40 years. Maybe this thread has encouraged me to do so this year, lol.
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