Monday, February 19, 2018

Truth in advertising? XIV

Beware the restaurant that promotes its sandwiches or salads as containing "garden-fresh" or "vine-ripened" tomatoes.  While both of those terms may have been accurate at one time, the tomatoes and other produce used in any restaurant's dishes are generally far removed from those descriptions by the time they make it to your table.  Although a direct farm-to-table arrangement is an admirable goal, I don't know of any restaurant that has a garden right on its premises.  Also, aren't tomatoes generally vine-ripened?  Isn't that akin to promoting apples as tree-picked?