Tomato Nazi?

[Buff]

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.

[Bobblehead]

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/200...retailers.html

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.

I also heard a story warning people to look at things make from raw tomato, like salsa, et al.

[troutman]

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.

[J pold]

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

[sureLoss]

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.

[Dan02]

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.

[llama64]

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.

[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

[troutman]

Are your tomatoes safe (CNN)?

http://tips.blogs.cnn.com/2008/06/10...matoes-safe-2/

[ken0042]

The one thing I heard on the news yesterday is that the "on the vine" tomatos are supposed to be safe.

[Bobblehead]

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

I saw a story about this on a newscast last night.

[Aeneas]

"No tomatoes" sign at lunch stop today. Hooray, my campaign to eradicate is working.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Aeneas

"No tomatoes" sign at lunch stop today. Hooray, my campaign to eradicate is working.

Blasphemy!

May the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits!

[kermitology]

All I can think of is..

"TOE-MAY-TOE"

From Attack of the Killer Tomato's

[arsenal]

As long as I can still get tomacco, no problems!

[Teh_Bandwagoner]

I'm more worried about these supposed Nazis than the tomatoes themselves.

[habernac]

Originally Posted by arsenal

As long as I can still get tomacco, no problems!

[troutman]

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.

[SteveToms]

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....

[SteveToms]

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.