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Photo Gallery: Market Shoppers Vote for Favorite Tomato
16 varieties of tomato competed for the title.
The voters have spoken.
Shoppers at the Chatham Borough Farmers Market on Saturday had the chance to vote on their favorite tomato from 16 contenders by Melick's Town Farm, Muth Family Farm, the Chatham Borough Community Garden and Picklelicious.
"We have all these different tomatoes, and people get to decide which is the best one," said Amy Dziemian, who helped to organize the competition.
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Volunteers from the Farmers Market sliced dozens of tomatoes and stuck them with toothpicks and handed out one ticket to each taster to drop into a bowl for their favorite tomato.
As the tomato samples disappeared, a few favorites in in the competition became clear. The black cherry tomato by Melick's Town Farm was a clear favorite, with its purple appearance and bite-sized portion. Shoppers also liked the brandywine tomato by Muth Family Farm, which shoppers described as tasting sweet and succulent, despite its rough, even ugly external appearance.
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Over 120 shoppers voted, with the purple Cherokee tomato submitted by Muth Family Farm winning the competition with 23 votes.
Best Tasting Tomato Competition Tomato Name Grower Votes Purple Cherokee Muth Family Farm 23 Black Cherry Melick's Town Farm 15 Brandywine Muth Family Farm 14 Old German Muth Family Farm 11 Purple Cherokee Melick's Town Farm 9 Brandywine Melick's Town Farm 9 German Queen Chatham Borough Community Garden 7 Yellow Pear Melick's Town Farm 7 Sour Tomato Picklelicious 7 Green Zebra Chatham Borough Community Garden 6 Melicks Gold Melick's Town Farm 4 Italian Pear Muth Family Farm 4 Green Giant Melick's Town Farm 3 Green Zebra Melick's Town Farm 3 Druzba Chatham Borough Community Garden 3 Elberta Peach Chatham Borough Community Garden 2Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts.
