06-10-2008, 10:00 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: I don't belong here
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Tomato Nazi?
No Tomato for you!
Raw tomatoes are pulled from the menus of many restaurants
... more like no tomatoes for anybody.
Due to a salmonella poisoning scare in the USA, tomatoes have been getting a bad name and many places just won't serve them right now.
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06-10-2008, 10:03 AM
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#2
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/200...retailers.html
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More restaurants and retailers in Canada and the U.S. are clearing their stocks of tomatoes suspected of triggering a salmonella outbreak in the U.S. that has sickened 167 people.
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I also heard a story warning people to look at things make from raw tomato, like salsa, et al.
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"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
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"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
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06-10-2008, 10:11 AM
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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DQ (Bowness) last night would not put tomatoes on my flame thrower. They had a notice about it at the counter.
This is good news for Aeneas who thinks tomatoes are the product of the devil.
Last edited by troutman; 06-10-2008 at 10:14 AM.
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06-10-2008, 10:12 AM
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#4
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Franchise Player
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Holy F’ that I LOVE tomatoes, if I where in a restaurant and wanted some sort of tomato dish and they wouldn’t serve me it
Boom…outta here
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06-10-2008, 10:13 AM
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Some kinda newsbreaker!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Learning Phaneufs skating style
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The subway on the +15 in my building won't serve any tomatoes. Put up a sign.
Probably trying to limit liability just in case some one gets sick.
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06-10-2008, 10:20 AM
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#6
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Calgary
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Dont they realize this is Canada not the US and you won't get sued for 80 bagillion dollars if someone gets sick?
It's not a burger without a tomatoe, atleast not a very good one, same with subs.
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06-10-2008, 10:37 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: /dev/null
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Good lord. 160 people get sick from eating some contaminated tomatoes in the states (out of a population of 360+ million no less) and we are all terrified?
Know where your food comes from and you'll be fine. Local tomatoes are tastier anyways.
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06-10-2008, 10:43 AM
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#8
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Franchise Player
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State-side, if you do an internet news search, you can certainly find this story, but I haven't heard a peep on the evening news, and tomatoes haven't been pulled from the grocery stores
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06-10-2008, 10:45 AM
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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06-10-2008, 10:49 AM
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Playboy Mansion Poolboy
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Close enough to make a beer run during a TV timeout
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The one thing I heard on the news yesterday is that the "on the vine" tomatos are supposed to be safe.
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06-10-2008, 10:58 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Canada 02
State-side, if you do an internet news search, you can certainly find this story, but I haven't heard a peep on the evening news, and tomatoes haven't been pulled from the grocery stores
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I saw a story about this on a newscast last night.
__________________
"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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06-10-2008, 12:46 PM
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#12
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Franchise Player
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"No tomatoes" sign at lunch stop today. Hooray, my campaign to eradicate is working.
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06-10-2008, 12:49 PM
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Not a casual user
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Aeneas
"No tomatoes" sign at lunch stop today. Hooray, my campaign to eradicate is working.
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Blasphemy!
May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits! 
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06-10-2008, 01:04 PM
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It's not easy being green!
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: In the tubes to Vancouver Island
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All I can think of is..
"TOE-MAY-TOE"
From Attack of the Killer Tomato's
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Who is in charge of this product and why haven't they been fired yet?
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06-10-2008, 01:16 PM
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Director of the HFBI
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Calgary
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As long as I can still get tomacco, no problems!
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06-10-2008, 01:25 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: The wagon's name is "Gaudreau"
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I'm more worried about these supposed Nazis than the tomatoes themselves.
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06-10-2008, 02:10 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: sector 7G
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Quote:
Originally Posted by arsenal
As long as I can still get tomacco, no problems!
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06-10-2008, 02:18 PM
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#18
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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Did you know?
Tomatoes are a new world plant, and were introduced to Europe after 1492. The Italian cuisine we think of has only had the tomato for 500 years (or less).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato
After the Spanish colonization of the Americas, the Spanish distributed the tomato throughout their colonies in the Caribbean. They also took it to the Philippines, whence it moved to southeast Asia and then the entire Asian continent. The Spanish also brought the tomato to Europe. It grew easily in Mediterranean climates, and cultivation began in the 1540s. It was probably eaten shortly after it was introduced, though it was certainly being used as food by the early 1600s in Spain. The earliest discovered cookbook with tomato recipes was published in Naples in 1692, though the author had apparently obtained these recipes from Spanish sources. However, in certain areas of Italy, such as Florence, the fruit was used solely as tabletop decoration before it was ever incorporated into the local cuisine until the late 17th or early 18th century.
Though it is botanically a berry, a subset of fruit, the tomato is nutritionally categorized as a vegetable (see below). Since "vegetable" is not a botanical term, there is no contradiction in a plant part being a fruit botanically while still being considered a vegetable.
Last edited by troutman; 06-10-2008 at 02:26 PM.
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06-10-2008, 06:17 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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We use a lot of tomatoes at work, it's in quite a few dishes actually, I wonder what it is going to happen with em....
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06-10-2008, 06:19 PM
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#20
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Lifetime Suspension
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Also, thinking about it, I ate tomatoes in my lunch today, I guess that means I am going to die.
Ahh Well, I had a good run.
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