Fried Green tomatoes, a cultural/climate difference.

This is not about the film, which I haven't seen btw, no particular reason, I've just not got round to it.

Nor is it about the pronunciation of tomato.

This is about the dish itself. I've decided to give it a try because I've got a lot of green beefsteak tomatoes.

I tend to look at a few different recipes to work out I want to do which is usually a hybrid of 2 or 3 different ones.

One thing I noticed was a diferent cultural attitude.

First of all this is an American dish. The story that I heard was that it was a way of eating something before it was ready, motivated primarily by poverty.

Nigel Slater's recipe, (which includes thyme, he seems to have a thing about that particular herb,) is all about using up unripe tomatoes at the end of the season when there's no chance of them turning red.

That's where I am, lots of green tomatoes, no red ones, and none that even look like they might be turning red any time soon.

Last year I had red tomatoes in July.

By the way the correct pronuciation is ter mah 'er.