@incendiary_dan It may be purple, but it is the most tomatoey tomato I ever tasted. Fabulous for BLTs. Very juicy. Also, it is as much green as purple, in skin color.
Of course, it also depends on the ground you grow it in. There is a distinct difference between the various Cherokee Purple heirloom tomatoes the farmers at my farmer’s market grow. Their land is spread out from the Pine Barrens of New Jersey to the dark earth of Amish territory around Lancaster, and equally far North and South from Philly.
My heart belongs to Cherokee Purple, but there have been times when, ahem, a Brandywine has tasted better, depending, I guess, on where it grew. I have a feeling that the genes of these things vary quite a bit more than the genes of hybrids. So sometimes it’s a crap shoot. They might be good and they might have an off year, too.