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The Times has a riveting little story that reads like a corporate thriller. Wait, it's more like an allegory about our image obsessed culture. Actually, it's a love story like Romeo and Juliet. No, it's more like a David vs. Goliath tale. Or one of those yarns about a passionate, eccentric inventor. You know what, it's a children's story about being rejected for your looks only to have your inner-beauty discovered.

Whatever. It's about tomatoes. Really ugly tomatoes:

Unlike the smooth, round baseball-size tomatoes usually shipped from Florida from mid-October through mid-April, the lush, vine-ripened UglyRipes have what the industry calls a "cat face," full of uneven crevices and ridges. The Florida Tomato Committee, a trade group that controls sales and shipments of round tomatoes, has determined that the brand does not meet its standards for shape, lack of blemishes and other defects.


And that's what we're calling our movie pitch: "Cat Face: The Little Tomato That Could."
Forget About Taste, Florida Says, These Tomatoes Are Just Too Ugly to Ship [NYT]
UglyRipe Tomatoes [Santa Sweets]