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There are only rotten ones.

Where are the fresh ones? There must *be* fresh ones at some point in order for them to become rotten, and there are LOADS of rotten ones.

Or is this a tomato variety only found in Faerûn, that misses out the ripe stage altogther and simply ripens to rotten on the vine?

I would like to fund a research grant with The Society of Brilliance for a study into this phenomenon.

Maybe they're imported to BG specifically for throwing at bards and no other reasons so they only need rotten ones?

Maybe the true price for tadpole infestation was rotten pizzas

Well noticed!


I don't know.
I did find a fesh kiwi though.

Ok, perhaps the tomatoes are just not that tasty? Tomato season is over but the good people of Faerûn did not manage to eat them all?
Or perhaps there is one fresh tomato somewhere, in a hard to find hiding place, one that provides a temporary funny effect, a tomato that the developers at Larian have dubbed 'The Easter Tomato'?

This caught my imagination. Perhaps tomatoes are deathly poison to tadpoles and The Cult have burnt all the tomato vines to ash? OR perhaps it's the other way around, and mindflayers go completely mad for tomatoes (apart from brains) and they've stashed all the ripe ones somewhere?


If you go to the ground floor kitchen at Lady Jarrah's, "Fine At Home: A Cookery Book" is on a table open at a recipe which not only calls for '1 cup high quality crushed tomatoes' but also '4 unit of tomatoes, preserved by canning' - so not only have the fresh tomatoes have gone missing but the tinned ones have vanished also.

I'm ignoring the other 'missing' ingredients (the olives, the various herbs and spices and the red peppers) for now because they don't appear anywhere at all, whereas the rotten tomatoes are right there taunting me with their anomalous existence.

There's a Polish cabaret song that might be sung by your soulmate:


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Min?? sierpie? min?? wrzesie? znów pa?dziernik i ta jesie?
Rozpostar?a melancholii mglisty woal
Nie ?a?uj? letnich dzionków ró? poziomek i skowronków
Lecz jednego jedynego jest mi ?al
Addio pomidory addio ulubione
S?oneczka zachodz?ce za mój zimowy stó?
Nadchodz? znów wieczory sa?atki niejedzonej
T?sknoty dojmuj?cej i ?zy prze?kni?tej wpó?
To có? ?e je?? ja b?d? zupy i tomaty
Gdy pomn? wci?? wasz ?wie?y mi??sz
W te witaminy przebogaty
Addio pomidory addio utracone
Przez d?ugie z?e miesi?ce wasz zapach b?d? czu?
Owszem by?a i dziewczyna i mi?o?ci paj?czyna
Co oplot?a dr??cy dwukwiat naszych cia?
Porwa? dziewcz? zdrady poryw i zabra?a pomidory
Te ostatnie com schowane przed ni? mia?
Addio pomidory addio ulubione
S?oneczka zachodz?ce za mój zimowy stó?
Nadchodz? znów wieczory sa?atki niejedzonej
T?sknoty dojmuj?cej i ?zy prze?kni?tej wpó?
To có? ?e je?? ja b?d? zupy i tomaty
Gdy pomn? wci?? wasz ?wie?y mi??sz
W te witaminy przebogaty
Addio pomidory addio utracone
Przez d?ugie z?e miesi?ce wasz zapach b?d? czu?

This is my new headcanon.

Funnily I just today found some rotten foods that still counted as 3 camp supllies, they were in ...


Some rotten tomatoes, carrots and cheeses that all counted as 3 camp supplies each.

I got a fresh tomato from a vendor, but I never found one that's not rotten.

@KazeAndi - where did you get the fresh one!!???

O no, now everyone and their great-aunt will rush to that vendor and prices for that single fresh tomato will skyrocket.

We must enter a bidding war for the last tomato!

Oh.MY.FLIPPING.GOURD!!!

I FOUND A STACK OF FIVE (count them!) FIVE FRESH TOMATOES!!!


TOMATOES!

I will not share this information with The Society of Brilliance. Instead, I shall dry and grow the seeds, corner the Market and accumulate huge wealth as the sole shareholder of Big Tomato in Faerûn.

Lae'zel can take over, I no longer care.

*Main Character has left the party*

My gods. At long last, we've discovered the worst crime of the absolute cult!

I bet the Durge was staving off his urges with tomatoes too, until that usurper claimed them for herself!

Yeah the day after the patch I started finding fresh tomatoes.

Was amusing.

Today, during one of my excellent performances (even though I say so myself) I overheard this waiter bemoaning the tomatoey state of affairs.

TOMATO PROBLEMS

I'm cool with no tomatoes, as long as we get potatoes and oranges !

Tomatoes are so Early Access. Nowadays it's all about the salami.

How the heck does your Shadowheart have Strength 18 ?

P.s.: Nevermind, all her stats are riddiculously high.

Yeah, she has magical underwear on