Four years ago the only tomato folks in my area grew or liked was the round, red fairly small market style tomato. I started talking about and giving away yellows, golds, white, greens, pinks, reds and blacks. The most difficult to be accepted were the blacks .... until they were sampled in the first taste testings. After we guaranteed they were not "rotten" tomatoes, the black revolution began.
I now grow and give away around two hundred OP (heirloom) plants. Mostly people still go for the reds and pinks; the favorites are hearts. There is a hard core group of black lovers. I know Black Cherry is not OP, but it is now the #1 requested variety.
The green when ripe fad has not hit here yet. Maybe in a few years.
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