re: What are your favorite tomatoes?

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Most people don't realize the most creole tomatoes are in fact not creole tomato. What you buy at the store called creole is actually probably a celebrity tomato.

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This is true. There was never a true variety of creole tomato. It was a common name given to Louisiana grown beefsteak tomatoes.

There's now a modern "creole" developed to try to emulate the charateristics of the old "creoles".

Celebrity is a good tomato though. It always performs well in taste test trials and produces a ton of tomatoes for a determinate.

I prefer the brandywines due to texture and taste. The crop I had this year rivaled the production of my celebrities.