Posted on 08/09/2025 2:59:03 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Whether you pronounce the delectable fruit (yes, it’s a fruit) as tomato or tomatto, Trump’s Mexican tariffs are forcing many dining establishments to either raise prices and risk losing customers, revamp menus or swallow the cost and bleed margin, said Sapana Grossi of Shah Grossi Law Firm, a business attorney specializing in the food and beverage industry.
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Iceland of all places has year-round tomatoes and vegetables thanks to greenhouses, hydrothermal heating, and UV lighting.
That’s too danged bad. Suck it up.
You have the choice to not buy any of it.
Geez..gtfu.
U.S.-grown tomatoes taste great. Mexican tomatoes are pretty to the eye but taste like cardboard.
That’s me. I do all my cooking at home. Except once a month. I go to my favorite hamburger joint drive in. 😎
Canada grows good hothouse tomatoes...plus eating when in season only makes sense.
I’m fine paying a bit more for tomatoes seeing as my hard earned tax payments no longer go to supporting illegals and their families.
there are no other kind to substitute?
No. They may be using San Marzano style and there is really no substitute.
At retail $5 for a 28oz can a 15% tariff is .75...hardly a deal breaker.
Costco has hot house tomatoes from Canada all the time.
Definitely in Florida they are. They are completely tasteless.
They tried to hang egg shortage on Trump...why not tomatoes. Never buy Roma...yuk..
I grew only Heirloom...Black Cherry and Krim. Unbelievable.
My wife is allergic to tomatoes, so we could not care less about them...
More exaggeration from the liberal press. We don’t know how much the cost of tomatoes will rise or how much of the tariff will be accepted by Mexican growers as a cost of doing business. Also, the cost of the ingredients is only a part of the cost of the meal. The labor costs of preparing the food, bringing it to the table, cleaning up the restaurant, etc, also are part of the cost of the meal. It is hard to specify how much the cost of one ingredient will affect the price that diners pay.
Roma tomato plants are extremely productive. Lotsa tomatoes. Mmmm…..
So they went 10 miles down the road..and that town got all the benefits.
The stupid thing is that our High School has their own little experimental hydroponic farm and grows the vegies for the school district.
I rarely eat tomatoes and only when I want to make myself a sandwich or burger with a tomato slice and lettuce, which isn’t very often. Half the time I end up throwing out part of a tomato that has gone moldy before I’ve eaten it all. I’ve never eaten at any of the other three venues they mentioned, and never would. I do all my cooking at home, and eat out once a month or less when I meet friends at the Indian casino near me...and I always order breakfast there.
Dear President Trump,
You know that Japanese fish that could kill you if you eat it?
Can you please put a tariff on that?
Thank you,
x
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