Quality is everything

My wife made the observation when we started this challenge that maybe my problem with the first few tomatoes was that I had bought the value range. My main reasoning behind it was that I knew that I wasn't going to enjoy the first few days, so I didn't want to waste money on them. As I predicted, I found them horrible, and felt like I wasn't making any progress with them. Over the weekend, we went food shopping, and I was strong-armed into putting the most expensive tomatoes into the basket. I baulked a little, but having tried one today, I'm glad that I did. The texture is still not my favourite thing, but the taste of them was actually pleasant. I still reeling from it a little. Up till today, I have been manfully chewing it down, trying to think positively about tomatoes, but today I finally got an insight into why people like them. I started thinking about one of the most beautiful dishes I see in Italy, beef tomatoes, mozzarella and basil, and wondered if I'd like it. I usually just pick the tomato off, and dislike the dish as mozzarella is bland by itself, but now I want to try it. Maybe Heston was a little bit right...