That’s right, I said “rapping tomato”/He rapped all day/From April to May/…And also, guess what, it was me.
- Homer J. Simpson, National Hero.
Because I am often ignorant in matters of common knowledge, and because I sometimes have trouble retaining important day-to-day details about how to live a safe and healthy life, I was unaware that tomatoes could carry salmonella. Much to my dismay, my lack of knowledge does not actually stop tomatoes from carrying salmonella. But I do know one thing: something like this seems to happen every summer.
For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, almost 150 people have fallen sick after eating round or roma tomatoes in 14 states. Most restaurants (including those in Charlottesville [Newsplex]) have responded by pulling not only that type of tomato, but all tomatoes (because the sky is falling) from their menus.
But my question is: wasn’t there a massive outbreak of E. coli from spinach two summers ago? And wasn’t it lettuce last summer? I believe in both cases they traced the disease to a contaminated watering system, so the plants had the bacteria in their cells; washing them would do no good. Now as I’ve said before, I don’t know much about food, or farming, or any of the myriad systems that conspire to get the food from the factory (lab?) and into my face, but it does seem like this is just another building block in the case for local or home grown food. I’ve been growing veggies for a few years now, and recently converted to a CSA this summer, and I am loving it.
And guess what? My tomatoes won’t make you violently ill.
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You say tomato, and I say tomato… crap. How does that go again?
terrorists!
I just got back from Jersey Mike’s, and they aren’t serving tomatoes either. How can you have a sandwich without tomatoes? I blame the Chinese, or maybe the unions.
The tomato song really doesn’t work well in text form. I say tomato and you say terrorists, let’s CLAW the whole thing off.
In other news: this.
And your cucumbers are HUGE
But seriously, some lizards in Mexico are gettign donkeypunched if I can’t get me some salsa
Tomatoes, spinach, lettuce. Why couldn’t something less pleasing to the palate like banana slugs, 2 girls 1 cup, or alien invasions be the cause of such maladies?
Actually, the cause is assholes letting animal feces get all over shit due to their poor agricultural practices.
Shit. I didn’t mean cause, I meant recipient.
You could have meant cause. 2 girls 1 cup is similar to animal feces.
这不是我们的过错。闭嘴回声。
@10: I heard it’s chocolate mousse. But they are really puking.
dammit
stupid lazy farmers, doing it wrong, depriving us of our God-given right to get tomahtoes from Mexico, Cali, Chile, or wherever the hell else they come from for cheap.
“washing them would do no good…”
What if I wash them in Vodka?
i love test comments, especially when they work. don’t be so timid, you know blockquotes!
GET OUT THERE GIRL AND MAKE YOU SOME INTERNET!
It was my first attempt at a blockquote. Back off.
How do you do it?
Very well, thank you.
w00ticakes! I am made of win.
i predict a widespread outbreak of completely unnecessary blockquotes.
You would be correct.
what makes you say that?
But unlike the tomatoes, blockquotes don’t give you diarrhea.
I rubbed a tomato onto the blockquotes on my screen, then licked the tomato blockquotes. And now I have the scoots. Thanks blockquotomatoes!
Let’s hope your computer doesn’t catch a virus, to boot.
i just ate sliced tomatoes for lunch because they were on a christian’s pizza. obviously, because i shop blindly and wield my credit card with unflappable confidence in the products around me, i am an idiot.
but really, i just forgot.
so… when salmonella happens, does it come out of my ears or my eyes? just so i’m ready.
I dunno. Maybe you should ask these guys.
that has got to be something the internet made up by itself.
when salmonella happened to my brother in Europe, it didn’t come out of his ears OR his eyes.
/it did, however, come out pretty much all his other orifices.