People who grow vegetables in their backyards learn early on that you don't give one person two dozen tomatoes unless they have an explicit reason to use that many. Even if someone likes fresh tomatoes, they are not liable to eat more than one a day, and tomatoes don't keep that long. Zucchini is a different story -if you grow it, you end up with so much that you give it away to people who clearly don't want it, just so you don't have to discard massive amounts all by yourself. I give my family members vegetables, but only in amounts that won't hurt my feelings if they don't use them. This is the latest comic from Chris Hallbeck at Maximumble.