I bought a mystery tomato plant, and the tomatoes are growing funny?

Question

the are growing long, not wide please help

Answer 1

That's why it's called a "mystery".  Probably Romas.

Answer 2

I agree, they must be romas...they make good spaghetti sauce.

Answer 3

Sounds like roma tomatos, their ok. Nothing you can do but eat'em.

Answer 4

They could be Roma, or Oxheart, or Amish Paste, or Opalkas.  There are lots of these long tomatoes.  They are great for cooking down to make paste or sauce, or catsup.   You can slice and eat them and they taste just great, or make up a batch of fresh salsa.

Mystery tomatoes are a lot of fun.  I save seeds every year, but am bad about keeping my tomatoes far apart, so I have mysteries every year.  This year I seem to have mostly Brandywine type and the long ones, but they all taste great.

Have a great summer, what's left of it!