Food Poisoning Tied to Tomatoes Spreads

AP via NY Times ^ | June 8, 2008 | Anon

[nyyankeefan]

Now that I live in NJ, I appreciate the most excellent tomatoes that come from The Garden State. However, prudence still reuires good washing...

have no fear ~ with all the ILLEGALS corslime & the lib/dems allow in NJ...the ILLEGALS will crap and contaminate the produce here as well......

the solution is simple....but no lib/dems - jorge bush...juan mccain...or b. HUSSEIN will call for deportation!!!

[SLB]

We drove to an Amish farm Friday afternoon. He was supposed to have some strawberries for us, but we were late so he had already sold them. He did have some tomatoes! The ones in our garden are still weeks from ripening, but he had about 8 that he had just picked. Nothing finer! We also got a couple of pounds of yellow summer squash which will go on the grill this afternoon along with some burgers and dogs.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

LOL! Same here! When my son was younger he used to come in for dinner looking like "Pigpen" dust cloud and all! I just made him take a shower before he ate dinner.

He had a grand time wallowing in the dirt all day, building forts, playing with his Tonks Trucks and he was never sick.

[mel]

Exactly. And all of these sanitizers that kill 99.9% bacteria amaze me, it is the 0.1% that will kill you.

[mewzilla]

Thanks for the link

You're welcome!

—fills in a few more details.

Except for the grower/distributor. And that's the biggie.

[BobS]

Grow your own! It's the easiest fruit to grow. Add a dash of potassium, sodium, or ammonium nitrate to the soil and they do they're thing. You get softball-sized ones. Lowry's Seasoned salt and black pepper are all you need. Just hose them off before plucking. That is addictive. Sweet, salty, and peppery. And O.D. on vitamin C so you pee a lot.

The reason you don't see the big ones at your local supermarket is because they are shipped to where they get the biggest $.

Salmonella is not a plant disease.

[mewzilla]

Meanwhile, interesting link....

Space-station experiments could hold key to food-poisoning vaccine

[NonValueAdded]

Just saw the notice in a Florida McDonalds yesterday. Said although “certain kinds of tomatoes” were withdrawn from the market in NM and TX, they’ll stop using tomatoes in ALL mickey d’s across the USA. Now I know why.

[alice_in_bubbaland]

Just sprayed my tomato’s with “Messenger” yesterday, today I’m getting out the epsom salt solution and giving them a good spray.

Epsom salt prevents blossom drop and adds sodium for bigger tomato’s. I tried it last year on my hot peppers and they were huge!

[4yearlurker]

I don't think so. When I was kid growing up in South Jersey in the early 1970s I worked on many a farm. Back then the farmers let the tomatoes grow and lay right on the ground in the fields. No support at all. Now the use the round wire supports.

[texgal]

A co-worker was hospitalized with this for almost 2 weeks. They think some pico de gallo at a local mexican restaurant was the culprit.

They cultured her at the hospital and determined it was the St. Paul variant. Stay away from round and Roma tomatoes. Cherrry, grape and the variety that you buy on the vine at the grocery are testing ok.

[andyandval]

notice that NY/NJ were not (yet) on the list

Saw that...we're growing our own this year.

And since you asked, Elvis was at Lake George last weekend and my 21 year old daughter loves him so we went up for the show(s)

She took this pic.

[BunnySlippers]

I was trying to figure out what brand of “Tomato Spread” was dangerous.

[andyandval]

LOL!

[grame]

Your splinter story reminded me of the time my son was playing with a friend on a porch with a wooden floor. Somehow he scooted across it while sitting and got the largest splinter I've ever seen. Went in one side of his cheek and you could see it trying to poke through on the other side. Took him to er and the dr tried to get it out, finally after a good hour or so of digging in this poor boy's butt cheek, “If there is anything left, it is gonna stay!” It was quite a while before he could laugh about that one. But it is a record I believe he still holds.

[BunnySlippers]

I was twirling around on my front porch and my hand hit a big barrel cactus. A giant cactus thorn went in my finger by the nail all the way to the bottom of the nail.

That required a trip to Cedars-Sinai where a surgeon used local anesthetic to use long pincer pliers to pull out the thorn.

[CindyDawg]

First I heard about it was Friday. Jason’s Deli had a sign up that they weren’t using them.

[CindyDawg]

Easier said than done. I tried this year and got one!

[rawhide]

My local McDonald’s is affected. They have a sign that no tomatoes are being served.

[rawhide]

My Mcdonald’s is in Georgia.