:argh!:
Sammiches ruint.
Damn, you're right. I won't be able to get any with lunch today :tgrr:
One fucking restaurant doesn't wash their veggies and we take the hit? Fuck this!
WASH YOUR FUCKING VEGETABLES!!!
It's times like this that I am glad we grow our own tomatos...
Oh yeah, that's right... I decided to be lazy and not plant a garden this year. :cry:
My friend just told me that he's growing tomatoes, cukes, and peppers, so I should have some soon. :fap:
Quote from: Suu on June 11, 2008, 07:52:10 PM
One fucking restaurant doesn't wash their veggies and we take the hit? Fuck this!
WASH YOUR FUCKING VEGETABLES!!!
No, it's because the Food and Drug Administration doesn't actually have any power to Administer Food. Stupidest name ever for an agency.
It's probably like the spinach thing, where the water inside the actual plant was tainted, thus washing does shit-all. You should bitch about tainted groundwater (probably from feedlots or meatpacking plants) instead.
I did that enough in Providence when I got e. coli from the tap. :argh!:
Ok, Al Capone's, the hole in the wall Italian joint, DID have tomatoes. :D
I told them they were very sensible, not to toss their veggies jsut to play up to the panic.
I'm pretty sure cooking kills salmonella. :|
Quote from: Rabid Badger of God on June 11, 2008, 09:15:07 PM
I'm pretty sure cooking kills salmonella. :|
Last I checked it did.
That reminds me...Italian food. Mmmmmmmm.
My issue is you have to find a fucking tomato to buy before you acan cook the sucker. They have cleared the shelves at every grocery in town.
WTF?
:argh!:
They don't want to get sued for selling tainted food.
Thank god I was stockpiling enough canned tomatoes to make it through nuclear winter! Now to make some ketchup and sell it for $10 a bottle while the tomato prohibition is still in affect.
My tomato plants better get their little tomato asses in gear.
Quote from: Nigel on June 12, 2008, 12:21:12 AM
My tomato plants better get their little tomato asses in gear.
You Insensitive Bitch, I can't help it if I have ASS Tomatoes!
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Yon Lady shrubbery hath back.
Quote from: Ratatosk on June 12, 2008, 12:26:53 AM
Quote from: Nigel on June 12, 2008, 12:21:12 AM
My tomato plants better get their little tomato asses in gear.
You Insensitive Bitch, I can't help it if I have ASS Tomatoes!
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I can't help it, I'm genetically predisposed to be insensitive!
Quote from: R.W.H.N. on June 11, 2008, 08:03:49 PM
Quote from: Suu on June 11, 2008, 07:52:10 PM
One fucking restaurant doesn't wash their veggies and we take the hit? Fuck this!
WASH YOUR FUCKING VEGETABLES!!!
No, it's because the Food and Drug Administration doesn't actually have any power to Administer Food. Stupidest name ever for an agency.
That's it! We need food admins!
Ban salmonella plz, he's a troll!
E.Coli BANNED! FOR DEATH THREATS!
did someone shit in the tomato fields again...? :argh!: At least we have tomato paste around the house so I can still make a decent sauce, should I feel like it.
It's salmonella, not e. coli, and apparently 6 more states just reported illnesses yesterday. :x
None of them New England, because we grow our own fucking produce and don't rely on that West Coast pesticide encrusted crap.
You mean Mexican pesticidal crap.
Luckily though, in CA, you can go to a local farmer's market and still find them, where they've been grown organically, etc. etc.
Mmmmm, yummy tomatoes for lunch!! They're delicious!!!
:p
Quote from: Nigel on June 12, 2008, 12:21:12 AM
My tomato plants better get their little tomato asses in gear.
Likewise.
TERRAISTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THEY'S IN OUR FOOD!
i didn't know what the hell you guys were talking about until i just went to arby's for lunch and found out i couldn't have any tomatoes. :evilmad: i do not hesitate to say here that i will kill a motherfucker.
Quote from: Jenne on June 13, 2008, 05:09:44 PM
You mean Mexican pesticidal crap.
Luckily though, in CA, you can go to a local farmer's market and still find them, where they've been grown organically, etc. etc.
yup, you can...because the farmers here don't use the fields as bathrooms...
Plz to maintain the distinction between e. coli and salmonella :argh!:
Unless poomp contains salmon as well?
I was able to get tomatoes on a sandwich today from Subway because they get them from local growers. Woo!
I'm tellin' ya, a smart small-time farmer could rake it in HUGE on this mess!
reminds me of the great tomato war
Quote from: Cainad on June 13, 2008, 08:24:52 PM
Plz to maintain the distinction between e. coli and salmonella :argh!:
Unless poomp contains salmon as well?
It sure does: http://www.cdc.gov/nczved/dfbmd/disease_listing/salmonellosis_gi.html
Quote from: Jenne on June 13, 2008, 09:27:16 PM
Quote from: Cainad on June 13, 2008, 08:24:52 PM
Plz to maintain the distinction between e. coli and salmonella :argh!:
Unless poomp contains salmon as well?
It sure does: http://www.cdc.gov/nczved/dfbmd/disease_listing/salmonellosis_gi.html
Shutting up now.
Our local farmers are banking off of this right now. The Farmer's Market downtown sold out of tomatoes in minutes from what I heard.
I'm telling you, the source is going to be a nearby chicken farm, not just somebody shitting in fields. It's too widespread for that.
We don't seem to be having any tomato issues on this coast.
Quote from: Nigel on June 14, 2008, 05:49:54 PM
We don't seem to be having any tomato issues on this coast.
That's because you spags shipped all your poopy tomatoes to this godforsaken island.
Quote from: Rabid Badger of God on June 13, 2008, 09:36:49 PM
I'm telling you, the source is going to be a nearby chicken farm, not just somebody shitting in fields. It's too widespread for that.
KILL THE CHICKENS! KILL THEM ALL! :argh!:
We are heartless, defecating bastards.
"technically, sir, tomatoes are fags"
All there were today were tomawts on da vine and cherry/grape tomatoes...no romas, no beefsteak...no "regoolair"...
They had all kinds of tomatoes at my grocery store. I guess Maine dodged the Killer Salmon Tomatoe Bullet. Or something like that.
Please to note: I wasn't saying anything specific about the tomatoes being contaminated with E.Coli, only making a blanket statement about things being banned.
I was aware it was Salmonella.
That is all.
I joined a farmer's co-op. I now will get a crate of vegetables every week for about $5 total.
I will now mock you each Monday with my bountiful harvest.
Quote from: LMNO on June 18, 2008, 04:44:49 PM
I joined a farmer's co-op. I now will get a crate of vegetables every week for about $5 total.
I will now mock you each Monday with my bountiful harvest.
Whoa whoa whoa.
Details? Everything I've seen is like... $25 a week and way more veggies than I can use.
We have the farmer's market here in Providence now too. I should look into joining the co-op, but I have no idea how much it is...Now is the time to join too.
Do tell us of your secret, LMNO.
I got a deal at Stillman's.
The secret is to sign up in the winter, when they're not selling anything, and need the cash.
Egad. I must remember to do this in the winter.
All the CSAs around here are hell of expensive... I was getting an organics box once a week, but half the shit wasn't even local so I stopped.
Yeah, everything I've seen advertised is insanely expensive, and they rarely, if ever, have an option for a one person share, which I have a feeling would be mad popular in an area as young as metro Boston--there's a lot of us single folk who intend to stay that way, thanks, and aren't gonna change just to make getting a CSA share more practical.
All the produce sold here sucks. :sad:
It's been so frustrating, that I've been trying to grow some of my own vegetables. Currently I have a few tomato plants, peppers, and cucumbers growing on the patio. I'm also trying to grow eggplant, amaranth, and gourds to be ambitious.
But I guess I should try buying from the farmer's market here more. The supermarkets have been so consistently bad (and damn expensive), that it makes me want to raze the produce section in a fit of rage.
I have a big garden which I have finally pulled myself together enough to mulch and plant this year; tomatoes, zucchini, peppers, corn, beans, cucumbers, carrots, spinach, mystery squash, herbs, and I don't know what all else. Also there are lots of fruit trees and shrubs; blueberries, strawberries, apples, raspberries, pears, cherries, nectarines, apricots, figs, pawpaws. Most of the fruit trees are still too small to be worth a damn, though. The apricot and apple bear like crazy, but the apricot is one of those every-other-year deals for some reason.
:eek:
I plan to go build a log cabin and live in Nigel's garden ITT
Yay!
Nigel, you're garden sounds awesome!
My little apartment patio is only big enough grow a few things, but I was really impressed this year with how much a little space gets you. Luckily, my family got a community garden plot, and it'll be my new project for self-sufficiency.
There's a wonderful satisfaction you get from gardening. Not only in terms of better taste and freshness, but also a connection with the processes of the world. People have gotten used to mediocre supermarket food, and have lost a sense of appreciation for how much time, work, and care goes into producing a meal.
i'm thinking of getting an organic veggie subscription as well .. i heard the supermarket veggies in NL actually hardly have any vitamins in them anymore :(
i'll check out what prices i can get, otherwise i might cut it in half with my flatmate or perhaps my upstairs neighbours, as my flatmate is away to india the next month (he's being outsourced or something, lol), and also dislikes fruits and vegetables (while being vegetarian--no don't ask)
I love gardening! I mean, really, really love it. It makes me feel relaxed and at one with my little world, connected, secure, all those good things. I worked at a garden center and for a while I was apprenticing with a gardener friend of mine, which was really wonderful and awesomely educational, but when my husband started working away from home I had to stop because Little Orange only went to school half-days.
damn it!
all we have here is too much sun and crappy sand that nothing will grow in. :argh!:
i want a five dollar bucket of veg each week!
i'm gonna have to check w/ "local farmers" if we have any to see what kind of deals they have. our produce at the grocery store is either always brown and yucky or made of plastic and/or wax.
Most of our food budget goes towards buying fresh veggies and fruits week after week. We eat canned sometimes and then frozen even more rarely, but we eat a LOT of fresh stuff here. I never buy frozen meals, unless they are potstickers.
That being said, all the co-ops here are out of town--I'd use up too much gas buying into them because there's so many farmer's markets around SD, esp this time of year. Which reminds me--better hit one of those this Sunday.
FYI, frozen veggies keep way more of the nutrients and flavour than canned food.
Quote from: triple zero on June 26, 2008, 02:20:03 PM
FYI, frozen veggies keep way more of the nutrients and flavour than canned food.
I do have to agree that while I try to buy fresh as often as possible, if I'm feeling lazy, want to have emergency back ups, or the fresh stuff just isn't looking good, I prefer to buy frozen over canned. The frozen stuff, while not always great, usually looks and tastes better than the canned. The canned stuff just always seems so soggy and blah to me. I'll buy canned tomatoes but that's about it.
I don't like eating the canned shit, I just cook with it. And usually dishes that by the time the veggies are in and done, it doesn't really matter (well, yes, it does, but you know what I mean) where they came from. I don't like using frozen because of the reconstitution afterward. Maybe I'm just not used to it *shrug* but I HATE frozen green beans after they are thawed. I like me fresh or canned, period. Weird, I know.
Unless you cook the hell out of them, frozen green beans are definitely not all that great. Cooking the hell out of them achieves a similar effect to canned.
Pretty much every other veggie, though, is better frozen than canned.
of course it also differs whether you froze them yourself or bought them frozen in the store. the industrial freezing process is much better at keeping the flavours and nutrients than just flopping it in a baggie in a below-zero freezer.
Quote from: Jenne on June 27, 2008, 03:58:04 AM
Maybe I'm just not used to it *shrug* but I HATE frozen green beans after they are thawed. I like me fresh or canned, period. Weird, I know.
Eh, that's true. The frozen green beans are pretty gross, but pretty much everything else I've had frozen is better than the canned. I don't like canned or frozen green beans, but we don't have them very often, so when I get them I get fresh.
Frozen peas are great. Like veggie ice cream dots...
but fresh everything whenever possible. Except pickles and such, sort of ruins the point.
Quote from: PeregrineBF on June 28, 2008, 06:50:40 AM
Frozen peas are great. Like veggie ice cream dots...
but fresh everything whenever possible. Except pickles and such, sort of ruins the point.
FRESH PICKLES HOT OFF THE VINE!
i still kind of wonder what a non-picled pickle (gherkin) tastes like .. i've never seen one. i guess something between a small cucumber and a zuccini?
Exactly like a small cucumber.
Interestingly enough, there's also a variety of cucumber called the Mexican sour gherkin that has a particularly sour flavor, so it already tastes half-pickled. But without the pickling, of course.
Wow, really? I want to try that!
I've never tasted one, but they look really cute:
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in case anyone cares, the ban was on big tomatoes, not the little grape tomatoes, or the cherry tomatoes that come on a vine, so you can still eat tomatoes and not die
hell i've still been eating whatever tomatoes are available.
not dead yet.
I just bought some grape tomatoes and roma tomatoes, they're good to eat at lunch. I've just barely in the last year come to appreciate tomatoes!
Quote from: Frederieke Noodle van der Orange on July 01, 2008, 04:34:17 AM
in case anyone cares, the ban was on big tomatoes, not the little grape tomatoes, or the cherry tomatoes that come on a vine, so you can still eat tomatoes and not die
Well that ruins my plan to kill off my idiot neighbors... I bought the wrong damn tomatoes. I thought it was the plum ones.