Bad Tomatoes

June 10th, 2008 - 1:13 am

I’m sure everyone has heard about salmonella and tomatoes already, but just in case you haven’t, you might want to read about what kinds of tomatoes to avoid right now.

What I haven’t been exactly clear about since this started is whether or not washing the tomatoes will make them safe. It seems to me it would, but no one has mentioned why that wouldn’t be true. I always thoroughly wash all fresh veggies, as we all should. I guess maybe it’s just easier to not sell them at all until they sort it out rather than try to get everyone to wash their fresh veggies. I know a lot of people don’t, even though I think that’s icky … not because I fear germs so much as mass produced produce always has pesticides and chemicals on it. Yuck.

I had some tomatoes I bought just a day or two before this all started, and I threw them out. I hated to do it, and it was probably unnecessary, but better safe than sorry, I suppose. They were all disgusting store-bought flavorless things anyway that add little more than color to a salad, so it really wasn’t all that great a loss.

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2 Responses to “Bad Tomatoes”

  1. on 10 Jun 2008 at 11:55 pm   John

    Last Tuesday it got me in the early hours and I missed work; returned Wednesday, dehydrated, and within an hour and a half pulled a back muscle. Just now getting better.

    Apparently New Mexico and Texas are the epicenter. By Thursday I saw the first little story in the paper, and yesterday it was the headline. Although the CDC hasn’t found the source, my bet it that this was just another benefit of globalization. What’s going to be the next ‘benefit?’

  2. on 11 Jun 2008 at 1:58 am   Orb

    I am really tired of all the fresh produce recalls. Sort of wishing now we’d gone ahead and started a huge garden this year instead of starting small. It’s to the point now where when I am shopping, most of the food in the store makes me nervous, because I never know what the next thing that might kill us is going to be. That’s no way to live.

    We are really going to work toward being totally self-sufficient on the vegetable end of things, and we have a farmer to get meat from that uses excellent farming practices. It seems like every time I turn around there’s something I just bought that now might be deadly.

    Sorry to hear it got you, but glad to hear you are on the mend!