Happy you have had such a good time, thanks for sharing!!
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Safe travels to get home and after that! I am glad you are coming home before the election. Thanks for all the photos and the reports. I’ve really enjoyed them vicariously.
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Wow, the photos in that article! The coffee with hazelnut cream looks beautiful, but I’d probably agree with the author on overly sweet.
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That’s how they roll in the EU!
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We’re just one big dysfunctional fam now 
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Thanks for taking us along! It has been so fun to experience this vicariously!
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I always buy green tomatoes for salad. If they are available.
Our shop has some that are excellent, and relatively expensive at double the price of san marzano. They are just very tasty, very old school tomato taste and not watered down in taste like most tomatoes these days. Bonus: they keep for longer! 
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I seem to recall you’re in the Netherlands (? correct me if I’m wrong!). There’s a joke about Dutch tomatoes being the most tasteless EU product.
Green tomatoes, but they are ripe and flavorful? In November? You are one lucky dude, and things there must’ve changed.
Id imagine those tomatoes @LulusMom1 had were locally grown in Naples area. I am sure they could have brought in boatloads of riper tomatoes from Sicily if that is what they wanted to serve and pay for. The green-ish tomatoes Ive had in italy arent lacking flavor, its just a different maybe less intense and tarter flavor.
Wondering if @LulusMom1 had any of the wonderful tomatoes they sell hanging on their dried out plants in Naples markets? They are supereintense and wonderful. We had them in the early spring one year They pick the plants, hang them up and take off the (ripening) tomatoes as needed.
Here, I found a picture!
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Yes, the Netherlands - famous for its greenhouse agricultural technology! See WP article below. But we do have a lot of artisanal farmers as well. I don’t know the source of the green tomatoes in my shop, will be either local or Belgium/France.
They taste like they were raised in full soil (though I’m not sure, but I’ll ask tomorrow!). If I leave them on my counter, they ripen and turn red, and then they are just like any tomato. And even then, they are above average tasty. I’m just lucky I have access to this source.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2022/netherlands-agriculture-technology/
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I noticed a lot of the huge plastic greenhouses trackside as I took the train from Rome to Agropoli (Lazio and Campania?).
I wonder what they raise in them? The few I could see inside looked like greens/rapini/rocket or something similar, not sure though.
But I could not see inside most of the “tents”.
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a lot of greens eaten in Rome! Probably artichokes, tomatoes and lots of other stuff, too. It used to be (in the 1970s-80s and obviously before) that you would get fresh picked wild stuff from the mountains in your salad, and wild strawberries too, but I think those old ladies who picked and sold them have gone to their rewards and I suspect immigrant workers from Africa and the Mideast are doing most of the greenhouse work. those wild greens were noticeably more varied and pungent that the cultivated mixes one sees in trattoria salads now.
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Those statistics are amazing.
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I didn’t have any that I know of. The tomatoes on the bruschetta at the place in the Spanish quarter were fantastic.
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Did you buy some??
I did not. I prefer nuts or cheese for snacking.
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Thanks for this! Just got two boxes, one fennel, one pepperoncino. The shipping practically doubled the price, but what the heck. Excited to have over some wine during the holidays.
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This reminds me there used to be a Greater Boston Onion/Hound @Taralli. I wonder what became of them?
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