For traffic lights, “red” means “stop” and “green” means “go.” For tomatoes, “red” means “go—ready to eat” and “green” means “stop—not ready to eat.”
“Green is no, yellow is wait, red is go. Tomatoes work the opposite than street lights” was posted on Reddit—Shower Thoughts on October 7, 2017.
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Calvin Biefeld
@CalvinBiefeld
Tomatoes are like traffic lights,they go from green,yellow to red! #mindblowing
9:35 PM - 10 Aug 2014
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Melbourneer
@_Melbourneer_
My tomatoes grew like traffic lights. - http://melbourneer.com/2015/07/08/my-tomatoes-grew-like-traffic-lights/ …
9:24 AM - 8 Jul 2015
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Dylan Reisenberger
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Replying to @LeyshonOwen @BSBIbotany and 4 others
Traffic lights ... and tomatoes slowly transitioning green, orange, red .... ?
3:00 AM - 26 Aug 2017
Reddit—Shower Thoughts
Green is no, yellow is wait, red is go. Tomatoes work the opposite than street lights.
submitted October 7, 2017 by actually_crazy_irl
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RandomFun!
@RandomFun_
Green is no, yellow is wait, red is go. Tomatoes work the opposite than street lights.
5:43 PM - 7 Oct 2017
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Shower Thoughts
@atshower
Green is no, yellow is wait, red is go. Tomatoes work the opposite than street lights.
5:49 PM - 7 Oct 2017
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Shower Thoughts
@Thoughts4Shower
Green is no, yellow is wait, red is go. Tomatoes work the opposite than street lights.
#showerthoughts
5:56 PM - 7 Oct 2017
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