INTERVIEW — Aug 5, 16:50
Interviewee: 44 years old, gender "other", main language Slovak, lives in Slovakia, nationality Slovak (see notes).
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Interviewer: So, my first question is: when you hear the word cult, what comes to your mind?
Interviewee: Tomato cult! [laughs] Okay — it's a local community of people growing local tomatoes.
Interviewer: If you think about them, what makes it a cult for you?
Interviewee: Exactly — dedication and commitment to their voluntary hobby, and the love and passion for what they're doing — which is getting back to roots. In these times, people in a big city are growing tomatoes, and they're changing varieties, and they're measuring the sugar [content] of the tomatoes, and they're kind of scientifically looking at growing the tomatoes, and the types, and — yeah.
Interviewer: Um, so, which features, then, for you, are really the most important to call this group a cult? It's a group?
Interviewee: It's a group, but without any kind of hierarchy — key members, or a set number of members. And it started as a group in the pub, and it got bigger on a Facebook group page. Now, after several years, we added an event that unites these people. Yeah, and the one word that would kind of describe it, in the sense of "cult" — is maybe kind of sarcastically named "the cult," because, you know, there's no reason why this should be a cult. But, yeah, maybe, like — I would say sarcastically, in the thinking of "fuck cult," or something like this. Okay, so, that's my opinion — I mean, I'm not sure, yeah.
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