Illinois Governor JB Pritzker sets off alarm bells that prices of tomatoes are starting to skyrocket...

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[E. Pluribus Unum]

...because of the potential Trump tariffs on Mexico.

Every MAGA voter should see what they voted for:

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[FrozenAssets]

I only eat tomatos that I grow. Grocery store tomatos taste like wet cardboard.

[MNJohnnie]

Dear Morons in Il

The tariffs have not been put in place. You are a hysteric liar

[rey]

I don’t eat avocados, but my girlfriend has given them up as they are larger produced by Mexican farms owned or controlled by the Mexican drug cartel.

I don’t know if this is the case for tomatoes.

[P-Marlowe]

Maybe it’s because it’s winter?

[packagingguy]

You are absolutely correct.

Commercial tomatoes, among other fruits (why do we call it a vegetable when it’s really a fruit?) are ripened with ethylene gas.

The ethylene gas triggers the ripening process. It occurs naturally in plants.

But done artificially it’s said to result in bland tasting food.

https://thereidhomestead.com/how-to-ripen-green-tomatoes/

[chief lee runamok]

"Grocery store tomatoes taste like wet cardboard."

I haven't bought any tomatoes in years for that reason.

Fresh off the vine cherry tomatoes are best.

[Fledermaus]

California can grow all the tomatoes and avocados we need.

Southern States grow tons and tons of tomatoes.

[Bernard]

I am waiting to see/hear the first confirmed report that anybody has seen JB Pritzker and his cousin Jennifer Pritzker in the same room at the same time.

Something the media just doesn't cover much.

[M Kehoe]

Pritzy needs to go on a diet and not worry about tomatoes he doesn’t eat.

On second thought scratch that. The way he has been animated and bloviating he might have a stroke.

5.56mm

[LilFarmer]

Yes, and cherry tomatoes are super easy to grow, even on a balcony or with a grow light.

Heck, I have an avocado tree in my house under a grow light and it’s “blooming”

[McGavin999]

Gee, where else might we get tomatoes? Oh, I know, the place we got tomatoes for decades before we started importing them from Mexico. The USA farmers.

[Lurker]

I’m stealing that.

L

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Only fair. I stole it.

[LTC.Ret]

Plant and eat your own tomatoes -— they are so very easy to grow.

[No name given]

I say Jabba Pritzker and Reid Hoffman the fat hippopotamus should have to live on the Maduro diet.

[bigbob]

Only if people are saving them up to throw at him.

[Sarah Barracuda]

What is that lard ass talking about there are no tariffs yet

[No name given]

He’s just talking out of his butt as usual.

[joshua c]

first eggs

now tomatoes

two of my favorite things to throw