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Sun drying tomatoes at the foot of Mount Etna in Sicily

YUROP @lemm.ee Sun drying tomatoes at the foot of Mount Etna in Sicily

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I had no idea these tomatoes start the process at the size of a small sedan.

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- Yeah, they're put there by a tomatow-truck.
  
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I've climbed that volcano and ate the best damn tomatoes in my life at a little restaurant about half way to the summit.

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  "Everything reminds me of her!"
  
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  I am these tomatoes' reckoning!
  
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- The sandwich at that restaurant (or the one across the road and down 1/10th of a mile, not sure which you were at) was amazing. Some sort of puff pastry with tomato and mozzarella. Tourist, schmourist, that was fantastic
  
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  Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was the same restaurant. We got a caprese salad and charcuterie board. 🤌
  
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How do they keep birds and other pests from shitting on them or eating them?

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- That's the secret, they don't!
  
  Same with sea salt, if you think you're only getting salt then I've got bad news for you!
  
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  The attendants wouldn't let me cycle through the salt pans in the Camargue because my 2kg dog was in one of the baskets on my bike. I pointed out exactly what OP did here, yet it fell on deaf ears and I never did get to see the piles of birdshit covered salt
  
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- The secret ingredient is habitat destruction!
  
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- Laser turrets
  
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At first glance I thought this was an AI generated pic of some nonsense again. I think the internet fried my brain.

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- Something doesn't work out photographically, the distant tomatoes are way too big. The sharpness is fucky, too
  
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  The distant ones look way farther away than they actually are because the shelf is a little bit higher. Makes the edge of it look like a path or something
  
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  Seems legit enough to me. The next rack of tomatoes would only be ~2m away after all given the gaps between rows aren't going to be massive. Pretty sure the sharpness issues are primarily from repeated JPEG recompression data loss - you can find a better quality version of the image by searching 'carmine spina tomatoes' which both looks less compressed in the far ground and dates from at least 2022 (so before mass popularity of AI generation).
  
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Do they export all of their flies to Mexico or something?

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- My first thought as well: Those would be covered in flies, ants, and/or other bugs if I tried it around here (which is not Mexico). It makes me wonder if this photo is taken some place that doesn't really have much in the way of bugs, as hard as that is to imagine, or if they go to great lengths to kill all the pests in the area to prevent them from taking over the tomato yield.
  
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  My dad is trying his hand at sun dried tomatoes this year and these don't seem to be an issue. I thought his yard would be covered in flies but nope
  
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- Holocene extinction babyyyy
  
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I'd be so annoyed at people casually labelling my photography of being AI generated and then casually being all "oopsie I guess it's not".

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That is incredibly neat.

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What's wrong with them maters

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- Ain't nuttin wrong wit dem maters boy wut da hael wrong wit chu?
  
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Pomodoro

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They don't - it adds to the flavour.

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- People don't think it be like it is. But it do.
  
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  Roses are red,
  Violets are blue,
  Sometimes it don't be like that,
  But sometimes, it do
  
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- they dont
  
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tomaisins 😋

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I hope the smoke adds a little spice to them.

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- Smelly sulphuric volcanic smoke? I doubt it
  
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Oh noes, those were perfectly fine!

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AI

Edit: It's not AI.

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- nuh uh
  
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  Yuh huh
  
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