That said, heirlooms do have all kinds of crazy flavors and differences.

Yeah, I'd bet that some of them don't last as long as the standard red tomatoes that you get in the store, but looking through heirloom tomatoes is kind of a trip, from a visual standpoint. Grocery stores seem to have pretty much standardized on about three red ones -- and I'm not saying that they're bad, but it does kind of mean that people don't get to see a lot of variety. Unfortunately, I'm not a huge fan of just eating tomatoes plain, so never got super-interested in obtaining them, but they do look damned cool.

googles

Here's a retailer that has images:

https://www.tradewindsfruit.com/tomatoes/

goes through looking for some interesting ones

• Black Beauty

• Cascade Village Blue

• Dark Galaxy

• Dwarf Lemon Ice

• Flaming Burst

• Gobstopper

• Green Grape

• Green Zebra

• Kryptonite

• Midnight Tiger

• Mint Julep

• Painted Lady

• Thai Pink Egg

• Violet Jasper

Oooh white tomatoes. Ever had the purple ones? Or the ripe green varieties?

That's pretty much the case with any produce at the grocery store these days. It's all picked too green. It makes me sad because I haven't had a legit ripe avocado in ages.