And in Paris too you need to look around for a place that will sell you good tomatoes. An average supermarket will just have the tasteless red water balls from the Netherlands, at least for 11 months out of the year.

> red water balls from the Netherlands

This was true in the nineties, but due to dropping revenues (especially in Germany) has been corrected by Dutch farmers since then.

Dutch tomatoes are of the highest quality now.

I was writing from repeated recent experience, the last from a week ago when I didn't have time to go to a better place to get tomatoes. Your mileage or taste may vary.