I want my tomatoes!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Two reasons:

  1. They are lying when they say it’s safe, they just want everyone to not hassle them when they bring tomatoes back.

  2. People are idiots. Even though grape, cherry, and “on the vine” tomatoes are OK, as are tomatoes sold in certain states, most people will just see the brief news segment and go “OMG all tomatoes will kill me I can’t have any tomatoes anywhere!!” At the restaurant I work at, we pulled all tomatoes, including the grape tomatoes used for one salad, and we stopped putting fresh tomatoes in the chili, even though it gets cooked. The memo we got explaining this said something to the effect of:

“Even though certain varieties of tomatoes are safe, and not all restaurant locations are affected, our guests will only register in their minds that tomatoes are bad, so we have decided to remove all tomato products from out dishes.” Which seems to me like a nice way of saying “our guests are stupid and it’s not worth your time explaining to them the nuances of the recall.”

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Well I just had a Papa John’s Spinach, Chicken, Tomato Alfredo pizza for dinner. I feel fine.

bouv, it’s definitely reason #2.

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Just had an heirloom from the local Farmer’s Market in my salad. Yum.

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…with black-light happy meal toys. :cool:

Hey, it one way to keep your mind off the taste of the food…

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Eat your fucking tomatoes, this is another Asian bird flu scare.

But lookout, the media says SuperFlu Bug XXTII is headed our way! Man the bunkers! Store the canned goods! Buy up all the bread at the grocery!

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I don’t understand about the salmonella tomatoes in the first place, doesn’t every one wash thier tomatoes? Is the salmonella inside like with chicken eggs?

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Ditto what Adhemar said.

I had a chicken salad croissant from Panera yesterday and I want my freakin’ tomatoes.

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The tomato slice was the one healthy thing on my two-a-day whopper junior habit. Now I can no longer pretend they are slightly good for me.

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We just need some good, lead-laced, Chinese tomatoes!

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There’s still lettuce, onions and special sauce. That’s my excuse, anyway.

I got a chicken sandwich at Checkers last night and it had a tomato slice on it. Bring it on, I say - I ate British beef for 14 years so I can damn well handle a New Mexico tomato.

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Yes, the salmonella is inside the tomatoes in question. They’re not sure how it got inside, but that’s where it is.

My tomato plants are covered with little, yellow flowers. Just a few more weeks…

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That’s a relief–those are my favorite kinds. I love those bite sized lil suckers.

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Here to agree with Maus Magill. Yes, the salmonella IS, or at least has the distinct possibility of being, inside. Simply washing a tomato may not render it safe since the offending bacteria is taken into the vegetable through its normal capillary uptake of water.

MacTech, that’s what puzzles me wrt the vine. “Lying on the soil” shouldn’t be a determining factor, should it?

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The sad part is, they’re not wrong. The four out of five people who after a detailed explanation are capable of grasping the situation will be outweighed in terms of time and interpersonal fatigue by the one out of five who draws you into an hour-long bellowing cow-eyed debate.

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Last night at Jimmy John’s I had to have a BL, as “the T’s all got the salmonella.” Shoulda bought local - South Carolina tomatoes are evidently fine.

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I swear Leno once mentioned there was an actual restaurant called Sam & Ella’s.

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A fast-food place serving marijuana is almost a textbook case of synergy. :stuck_out_tongue:

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Wars, terror, disasters, planetary turmoil.

And now the final insult, the attack of the killer tomatoes!

d&r