Unsolicited perspective from a(n older) (white) woman at the farmer’s market this summer…

…when she’s standing beside me as I get bargain specialty tomatoes and the helpful vendor points out that some of the ones I picked out are nicked, and I say something like yes, I had noticed that, and that I’d refrigerate those ones right away:

“You know that you’re not supposed to refrigerate your tomatoes, right? It destroys the flavor.”