LOOOOOOVE MY TOMATOES !!
McDonalds, Burger King, Taco Bell, the L.A. Unified School District and many, many other food chains and markets have pulled UNCOOKED TOMATOES off their shelves and menus.
145 people in the U.S. (there are 300 Million of us), mostly in Texas and New Mexico, have gotten salmonella from eating tomatoes. Some tomatoes. From some states and countries. Or at least the CDC thinks so.
On Saturday, Barns ate dinner at a fine steak house in L.A. AT LEAST 145 PEOPLE IN THAT RESTAURANT ALONE, THAT ONE EVENING ALONE, ATE TOMATOES WITH THEIR DINNER.
In conclusion:
1. OPEC runs our economy.
2. Lawyers and insurance companies run whatever part of our lives that OPEC doesn't.
Bottom line: Barns will continue eating the tomatoes he so enjoys. Raw.
What Do You Think?
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Backbiter ( 107 posts / 1 fights ) from West Hollywood, California (United States) on 06/11 at 10:02PM PT
Let's not let the Godless Tomatoes Win! We need to amend the Patriot Act to include bugging the phones of farmers.
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from Den Of Ubiquity, California (United States)
on 06/12 at 09:06AM PTAmen, brother!
How about bugging the offices of the Dept. Of Agriculture? Do you know that there is at least 1 Dept. Of Ag. employee per every farmer the department oversees?
The most famous cartoon on the subject, shows a high ranking Dept. Of Ag. official packing up his personal belongings in his office, having been fired. When asked why he was fired, he laments: "My farmer died."
Your tax dollars at work!!
I vote for "bugging" that department right out of existence.
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from Den Of Ubiquity, California (United States)
on 06/10 at 04:59PM PT
NOTE THE TIME STAMP ON THIS POST!
It is now 4 HOURS and 32 MINUTES since Barns had a delicious chopped tomato, onions and basil salad at lunch.
Still alive and argumentative ... as he was before lunch.
All is well on Western Front.
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Spinner ( 131 posts / 3 fights ) from Sherman Oaks, California (United States) on 06/10 at 10:50AM PT
I love tomatoes too. And, I will be cautious about the type of tomatoes I eat for a little while. The media says the following tomatoes are fine: cherry, grape and vine tomatoes. So, to all those people that love tomatoes - all is not lost!
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uncut0072002 ( 48 posts / 1 fights ) from Chicago, Illinois (United States) on 06/10 at 09:29AM PT
My question is and hasn't really been answered by media is the salmonella inside the tomatos or on the skin. Seems up to now for vegetables it has not been part of the plant inself. But due to lack of proper cleaning. Second this was reported as an "unusual" type of salmonella occurring in vegetables. Again WHY unusual. Thank the anti-inspection politicians for this one and perhaps the globalization.
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Harm ( 116 posts / 0 fights ) from Alexandria, Virginia (United States) on 06/10 at 10:56AM PT
Geee man. I was just hoping to keep eating good tomatoes and onions salads. Now I have to think it thru, including how my salad dovetails with global economics?
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smidgen ( 62 posts / 1 fights ) from Los Angeles, California (United States) on 06/11 at 09:47AM PT
Yeah. A world with out tomatoes really bites. ...which inevitably means I will pay an arm and a leg to get the upcoming "good ones" the same way I pay for gas these days. Arg.
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Grizz ( 454 posts / 14 fights ) from Alexandra, Otago (New Zealand) on 06/14 at 12:40AM PT
Hey Guys ,you to Barns If you start suffering from Tomato deprivation Drop me an e-mail and I'll send you some seriously juicy home grown Super Toms and Beef steak tomatoes that'll make not only mouths water fresh out of my hothouse
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from Den Of Ubiquity, California (United States)
on 06/15 at 06:31AM PT
You are my hero.
Barns has been doing some BIG TIME TOMATO PROTEST EATING!
And, of course, the hysteria is abating.
I just wonder how many of us, likely 6,000,000 ( six million) have been pondering HOW TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS "CRISIS": WHO CAN WE SUE FOR SOMETHING. ANYTHING.
That is sad but true. Likely 2% of the population ALWAYS LOOKS FOR AN AGLE TO MAKE SOME MONEY.
Likely 6,000,000 of us (six million), hope and pray for a cup of coffee that is REALLY, REALLY hot, so we can dump that in our own laps.
And get enough money to fuel up our gasoline tanks for a week or two.
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