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Who are you calling ugly?

By Don Wilkins, The Messenger-Inquirer

No one understands beauty is in the eye of the beholder more than West Louisville farmer Keith Riney. For more than 30 years, Riney has offered what some people call "ugly" tomatoes or what he refers to as "seconds" or "canners." "I've sold to groceries and restaurants and everybody wants a beautiful tomato," Riney said. "And they don't want to pay top dollar for anything that's not." Still, Riney guarantees his seconds will always taste better than they look.

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Second tomatoes have first class taste



2019-06-24 - Owensboro, KY - Photo by Greg Eans, Messenger-Inquirer.com.
Keith Riney shows a tomato without blemishes and one that sells as seconds.

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