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Various Non-Bald Discussions => General Discussion => Topic started by: warhawk on June 11, 2008, 04:06:31 AM
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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 O0
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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
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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.
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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!
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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.
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Terrorists I tell ya terrorist...
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Yup same here. No tomatoes on the East Coast either
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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.
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tomatoes=yuck !*u%e
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No fear here. My Dad has 10 - 12 vines in his garden
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Yum - I'll pick some up on the way home one morning!!
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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.
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imagine trying to eat a Whopper with cheese and NO TOMATO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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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!!!
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I tried to order Bruschetta yesterday at BJ's Brewery and I wasn't able to because of the tomato scare.
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I think Al-Qaeda are responsible for this.
There is a video surfacing of Osama Bin Laden praising Allah for the tainted tomatoes that are going to destroy the infidels
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I read this today.
The Georgia Fruit and Vegetable Growers Association recommends consumers be aware tomatoes grown in Georgia, and a number of other southeastern and western states are not associated with the outbreak of salmonellosis announced by the FDA on June 7, 2008. In that announcement, the FDA published a list of states and territories where tomatoes are grown and are not associated with this outbreak. The list of outbreak free growing regions includes tomatoes grown in Georgia.
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FYI bros: if you live in an area where the tomatoes are questionable, the grocery store is required by law to not only inform you but to also offer you refunds regardless of whether or not they had any of the suspected tomatoes anyway... you never know where your store gets their produce unless it's on the produce look-up (PLU) sticker - for example we've got Georgia Peaches on sale this week and it states plainly on the label "Georgia - Southern Peaches."
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tomatoes=yuck !*u%e
Tomatoes will help cure that thing you have haning off yoru shorts there Nomad....lol
and Scott...are those peaches good? Cause I am heading down that way and I want some nice fresh peaches...man you cant go wrong with Georgia peaches..just as long as they are ripe.
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Guys, most of the tainted tomatoes come from mexico. This is due to the water they are using which comes from their waste water, so your eating "grown with human fecies" tomatoes.
Bin Laden would thank allah for georgia crabs!!!
Apparently they are not getting rid of the parasites in the waste water. Sounds like sheet to me!!
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As a nation, we actually import more fruits and vegetables from foreign lands than we produce and eat ourselves. This is why I have a vegetable garden - not because I am paranoid - but because I know what kind of conditions these fruits and vegetables from second world countries are grown in. This isn't the first time human fecal matter has made it into our food supply chain.
Why are we getting tomatoes from Mexico anyway... Heck, everyone I know who grows their own veggies gets so much you can't give 'em all away!
And in the winter, all of your grapes come from Chile. DON'T TRUST GRAPES FROM CHILE!! Not sure why - but the just look shifty when I walk by them in the grocery store... :px
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Without getting into an arguement here, I totally agree with Matthew and Champ say regarding locally grown produce. The US has some of the best in the world and there is no reason to eat imported stuff when local produce is far superior. However in the Capitalist world we live in, it comes down to money. And imported fresh produce is much cheaper to import and thusly provides more return for the distrubutors and the big retailers.
The USA and the Western world want to export their technology,products,materials and services abroad. From the best(automobiles,clothing,technology) to the worst(McDonalds and Coca Cola and fast food sh*te) of American products, in a free market economy there has to be give and take. You have to be willing to buy imported goods if you want your local wheat farmer to be able to send his wheat to China or The Philipines to support his family.
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Without getting into an arguement here, I totally agree with Matthew and Champ say regarding locally grown produce. The US has some of the best in the world and there is no reason to eat imported stuff when local produce is far superior.
JDog, I appreciate your kind words about local produce. New Jersey has some of best local produce. I look forward to the mid summer when we go to the local farms and road side stands and buy Jersey Fresh corn, tomatoes, blueberries and peaches.
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