I am amazed all the local fast food outlets and grocery stores have removed tomatoes from them!
Thankfully, they still carry vine ripened at our sotre but there is not a day where I go without a tomato in one of my meals (tacos, salads, sandwiches).
When will they come back? isn’t this overreacting a bit?
Also, to those who say vegetarianism is healthier (and I won;'t argue that) why have all the food scares in the past yeasr involved non animla products?
Your only option is to invite extremist political pundits to dinner, poison their wine, and use their bodies as fertilizer for tomatoes in the back yard. You won’t believe how they grow.
The Last Supper, courtesy of Atomicktom from a movie recommendations thread
Florida tomatoes have been ruled safe by the FDA, so you should be able to get your fix.
In the meantime, my backyard has dozens of tomatoes that are starting to ripen. When they first mentioned the tomato salmonella problem, I wasn’t worried. 
Then how come I can’t? I live off fast food and nobody is serving them - not even the Taco Bell on Semoran that served some lady a Gordita with borax in it last month!
Not all of them - the last I recall was a ground beef scare. Check the USDA or FDA’s website and I wager ground beef is the big one. I thought the spinach contamination was due to runoff from cattle production, and the peanut butter was something to do with (poorly maintained/contaminated) processing equipment.
Anyway, last I read the small tomatoes (cherry, grape) were still considered fine.
Well, jeez, sweetie, the FDA ruling came down late Tuesday. Give the farmers time to ship them out!
Gordita with borax? How did I miss that one? :eek:
It was on the news for about a day and TB apparently came to some sort of settlement with the woman uber-quickly to make sure she didn’t do any more interviews.
I suppose I should point out that it wasn’t definitively identified as borax - the woman thought it was Ajax detergent - but it was definitely icky white powder. Weirdly, I can’t find any news stories on it now.
(Saw it on Local 6 and they were talking about it later on Real Radio)
VA and MD tomatoes are supposed to be safe, and they’re available at my local farmer’s market, where I usually buy them, anyway, so I’m not changing anything. I did eat some off-the-shelf Roma tomatoes on some tacos the other night and have experienced no ill effects.
I was halfway through my Wendy’s burger (with tomatoes) last night when I remembered my dad telling me earlier that day about the tomato, er, “recall.”
I finished the burger. I’m still here.
So far.
This reminds me of last year’s spinach scare. All the supermarkets took salad spinach off the shelves, with the result that I went about with a massive spinach salad jones. It didn’t help that every news story about the issue showed stock footage of a Salinas field covered in appetizing-looking, unharvested young spinach. Luckily our local farmers’ market did not participate in the paranoia, and that weekend I bought thereat a huge sack of prime baby spinach and devoured it at dinner in a salad.
I ate tomatoes yesterday at a greek deli. I guess they either didn’t hear or ignored the warning. I’m still standing!
The grocery stores took all the regular tomatoes out. I usually buy the on-the-vine kind so I’m still good to go.
We were laughing yesterday because the sign at McDonalds identified the FDA as the “Federal Drug Administration”
McDonalds is serving medical marijuana now?
Well, it was Taco Bell, so it’s not like it would have tasted any worse.
You know that raw spinach isn’t all that good for you, and the only way to get the nutrients out of it is to unbind them by cooking, right? I mean, I enjoy (and eat) raw spinach for the taste, so don’t get me wrong. I just know that it’s not all that healthy a food.
You’re no fun at all.
Our local Subway quit carrying spinach during the scare a year or two ago and never had it again. Tomatoes were gone Monday but back Tuesday.
Why in the world is it that tomatoes with the vine attached are considered safe? Is it just like the cherry and grape varieties, that none like that have been linked or is there something about the vine itself?
That’s nothing. I ordered a Subway sandwich on Friday, left it in my car all weekend, and ate it on Monday.
It didn’t have tomatoes on it.
It did have mayonnaise.
I believe it’s because they don’t end up lying on the soil, when we grow tomatoes at home, they’re supported by a little “trellis”, to keep the 'Maters off the ground, vine ripened tomatoes, IIRC, are supported by a trellis when growing
Oh, and the Gastroenteritis I had last week, I’m pretty sure was caused by one of these bad tomatoes, all the symptoms listed matched, I can’t be sure if it was salmonella, but it seems that way
Yeah, this is really pissing me off. I go to a local Chipotle Mexican Grill now and then for a veggie burrito, and lately they’ve pulled their fresh tomato salsa. They have a helpful little sign that says they’re suspending it due to problems in Texas and New Mexico, “even though our salsa is perfectly safe…”
If your salsa is “perfectly safe,” why won’t you sell it to me? I don’t care about salmonella in Texas! This is freaking Washington! We do not have to go on a sympathy strike! I’ll take my damn chances with the damn tomatoes, thank you very damn much!
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