Oh no, all year round. A friend of mine even noticed he never liked tomatoes as a kid but now he has no issues since they're literally tasteless, and he comes from Greece so it's not a sun issue
Sounds like location (and with it tomato source/variety) is what's changed, not time (and tomatoes over it).
I always regret it if I get them out of season; in season they're still worth paying extra for, cheap bottom of the barrel supermarket tomatoes are just mildly flavoured water capsules. That's in the UK; for some reason even the cheapest in France has always seemed to beat anything we can get here.
yes that's the entire point of the discussion, they chose varieties based on quick growth, disease resistance, water needs, ease of transportation &c. taste isn't anywhere close to the top of the list
'source' as in obviously a different place in Greece vs. wherever they came from there to (US?)
'variety' as in among those that are available - maybe what you can get grown easily and cheaply in Greece/med is much better than that in the US, which is perhaps also local but necessarily (or for better yield) a different variety, so if you don't pay any attention to it you get something different.
My point is it's not just passage of time that changed but also where they came from. If you think all tomatoes everywhere are (now) tasteless and you're one of the few enlightened ones who have realised this, you are absolutely kidding yourself.
