A puzzlement

Rico says that he fails to understand (as usual) how a corporation with as much buying power as McDonald's has, in one of the best tomato-growing areas of the country (we're not talking Utah here, fer fuck's sake), ends up putting slices of the worst unripe, tasteless tomatoes in its burgers... (Let alone what that pale gray 'mystery sauce' is; the usual ketchup/mustard/onion bleagh is bad enough...)