 all attached together. What makes these so great besides growing in hothouses so they control the environment, they're still full of nutrients from the stem. So the greener that stem is and the redder those tomatoes are, the better it's going to taste. Don't buy them green anyway and don't buy them with a brown stem. Forget about it. Now what you want to do when you buy your tomatoes like that, oh, one more thing, make sure they have that wonderful aroma.