is there ANYONE out there that thinks maybe fresh tomatoes are a food that has fat? cause we sell some campari tomatoes in a package at work and it's sure to notify the customer that it is a zero fat food. i'm not sure of the significance- either people are fat-crazed and want to be assured at every turn that their food is fat free, or this tomato company estimates that the american public is really that stupid to have to be reminded, or enlightened to begin with, that tomatoes are a fat free food.
the result of having a mattress in lieu of a collection of mancave cushions in a tent is that shley slept a whole lot yesterday AND slept through her alarm clock this morning and was thus late to work. oh it's so comfortable.
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Okay...so getting back to the tomatoes....
OF COURSE people think tomatoes have fat in them! Why shouldn't they? As you have so often pointed out there is a huge disconnect between the average grocery consumer and the point at which the product was made/grown/slaughtered or whatever. And you are also in your rarefied air at W.O. dealing with a purchasing public obsessed with their health and weight more than the average consumer. Remember as you trot out your packaged campari tomatoes (how much per pound?) that most of your customers have never had the good fortune to stand in their own garden smelling the intoxicating smell of fresh tomatoes on the vine, nor have they had the pleasure of the sharp, sweet taste of a tomato seconds off a plant taller than you are, while your toes wiggle in warm, earthy dirt.
There is a reason I plant tomatoes every year...even though the hot, dry summers in western KY often kill off my best plants, I just crave that delicious quality that is a homegrown tomato.
I am waxing rhapsodic over tomatoes, but it IS January, and buggery cold outside, and my best hope at this point is something from a can (salt, sugar and fat-free of course) for my sauce.
By the way....I always thought Campari was something you mixed with soda at ritzy drinking holes.
Okay, back to the Big Lebowski discussion!
thank you, auntie k, for bringing blog comments back to a standard of normalcy. what goes on in some peoples' heads when responding to my posts is beyond me. what's with the list of breakfast foods spread out over several postings?? i think it's "that guy".
accusations are rude.
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