NO TOMATOES...

[warhawk]

hello fellow chrome domes:  yesterday, i had a craving 4 a whopper at burger king & noticed a sign on the door that they were not serving any tomatoes due 2 the salmonella scare.  just wondering... if your area/neighborhood restaurants & grocery stores R doing the same.   what's your story?

WARHAWK

[Jdogs Better Half]

What's going on in the US with the tomatoes?

5 local play parks in my area have been closed because there is Salmonella in the sand! The little kids eat the sand and then get really sick.

Apparently its from tropical fish, I guess some kinda wildlife is eating the fish and then doing its business in the sand!!!! They dont know for sure and they dont know how to treat it, so they have been closed for over a month now - it sucks.

What's up with Salmonella at the moment??? ewwww

[Jer]

Yeah, we're even going to the extent up here of banning all imports of them.  In maybe another month our farmers will be able to keep up our demand for us but I saw it yesterday at all the restaurants I passed by on my way in to work.

[Timmay]

Im not sure if we are going to have any local crops....heck all of our farming fields are under water at the moment....SUCKS!

[Paul]

They just did a report on this on Good Morning America.  Apparrently tomatoes from California and Florida are ok as are grape, cherry and on the stem tomatoes.   The large slicing and roma (plum) are what have been causing the problem.   From the reports sounds like it is the imported ones doing the damage.

[Timmay]

Terrorists I tell ya terrorist...

[BlackJamesRackham]

Yup same here. No tomatoes on the East Coast either

[GASlick]

The Georgia Dept of Agriculture issued a statement today that Georgia grown tomatoes are safe to eat.  So look for a "Grown in Georgia" label.  I think it's affecting a lot of other states.

[nomad]

tomatoes=yuck

[wpruitt]

No fear here.  My Dad has 10 - 12 vines in his garden

[GASlick]

Yum - I'll pick some up on  the way home one morning!!

[SLYinKC]

Every restaurant I have eaten at this week has taken out their tomatoes.  Tonight I had dinner at a local Mexican restaurant and they were using corn salsa in place of their fresh tomato salsa.  I asked the owner about it and he said that he had 10 crates of tomatos that he couldn't use right now.  I hope they find the source of this soon.

[Timmay]

imagine trying to eat a Whopper with cheese and NO TOMATO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[KeeperOfTheBeard]

I grow my own - a nice heirloom beefsteak variety called Henderson's Crimson Cushion, another called Caspian Pink.  There is nothing better than a fresh picked tomato with a little bit o' salt....mmmmmmm.  Those thing they are now pulling off the grocery store shelves are waxy and tasteless....

I always knew some day tomatoes would be the end of us all!!!

[Tyler]

I tried to order Bruschetta yesterday at BJ's Brewery and I wasn't able to because of the tomato scare.