"BP = blind Pig? Not getting this one. "

What? Too mixed a metaphor?

BP, Bud Porn.

"I'm getting the gist of it. Used to hang with a Norwegian girl who grew up on Guam when I was a lad (wistful smile crosses an old man's face ) Pretty sure "Howlee-boy" was not a term of endearment, though. "

Can be!
There's the descriptive haole that just means "white guy"
Then there's the perjorative "F*kin' Howlee" that don't malama da aina!
I be da former.:hippy:
No got time fo' da latter.

"Besides, we are talking about tomatoes, right?"

Mais oui mon frere!
Greenpinelane dot com tomatoes at that.
Sorry for being obscure.
"It is my nature"

Da Weeze
He be haole, but he O K.