Have they figured out the cause/origin of the tomato salmonella?
Fred: So you don't worry that it's possible for someone to send out a biological or electronic trigger that effectively overrides your own sense of ideals and values and replaces them with an alternative coercive agenda that reduces you to a mindless meat puppet? Shopkeeper: Wow. People used to think that I was paranoid.
'Time Bomb'
Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
tommyrot - Jun 11, 2008 10:28:15 am PDT #2518 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Kat - Jun 11, 2008 10:28:27 am PDT #2519 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
But, they could use Florida Tomatoes - they've been judged to be safe. Or California tomatoes. They are also safe.
I don't get the whole abandon the tomato thing. We had fresh tomatoes the other night (and they weren't the cute cherry or grape ones, but they were still on the vine and I think, Californian).
I also didn't abandon spinach during the e.coli thing.
sumi - Jun 11, 2008 10:31:03 am PDT #2520 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
On the vine are supposed to be safe, cooked tomatoes safe. I don't know - can washing clean off salmonella?
juliana - Jun 11, 2008 10:31:05 am PDT #2521 of 10003
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I do like being a blue-eyed brunette so I can't complain too much.
It's very striking!
It is!
I kinda feel like I won the lottery with my eyes and cheekbones, so I can't complain too much about the rest of it (like my teeth - thanks, Mom).
Actually breast size is supposedly passed down mostly via your dad's mom than your own.
I did not know that. Huh!
Genetics are fun! It's like a biology version of the "How do YOU do it??" game.
amych - Jun 11, 2008 10:31:25 am PDT #2522 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I can understand them wanting to avoid tomatoes until the madness ends. It's the "substitution" fiction that gets me -- "we're sorry, but we just can't serve tomatoes right now", or "we can't serve tomatoes, so we're serving a different salsa instead" would be completely reasonable responses. But the suggestion that lettuce and pico de gallo are somehow equivalent is WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONGITY WRONG SO VERY OMG WRONG.
Steph L. - Jun 11, 2008 10:31:51 am PDT #2523 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I believe that a healthy diet helps most diseases
I don't know that that's true; however, even if a healthy diet doesn't affect a *disease* (by curing/mitigating it), a healthy diet can support a person's overall health/state of being, such that the impact of having a disease is lessened.
And, of course, there's always the beneficial mental-health properties of [your favorite food here].
Jessica - Jun 11, 2008 10:33:18 am PDT #2524 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
But the suggestion that lettuce and pico de gallo are somehow equivalent is WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONGITY WRONG SO VERY OMG WRONG
Yeah, seriously. Why not salsa verde, or a cooked tomato salsa? But lettuce? It's a whole different kind of thing!
Jessica - Jun 11, 2008 10:34:29 am PDT #2525 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
beneficial mental-health properties of [your favorite food here]
For example, homemade dulce de leche ice cream is good for the soul.
Jesse - Jun 11, 2008 10:34:58 am PDT #2526 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
OMG, I bet it so is.
juliana - Jun 11, 2008 10:35:06 am PDT #2527 of 10003
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
and whiskey is good for my nerves.