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No, you may not have any tomatoes

Posted on | June 10, 2008 | No Comments

I should have known something was going on when I couldn’t get tomatoes on my wholewheat turkey sub this morning at Sheetz. It looks like someone has been defecating — taking a poo — in the tomato fields again. Once again there is a problem with salmonella bacteria in tomatoes. Here is the blurb the AP included with the above photo:

Mark Roh, U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s acting regional director holds a bag of tomatoes being tested for salmonella bacteria at FDA’s southwest regional research lab, in Irvine, Calif., Monday June 9, 2008, where microbiologists are working to trace the source of the outbreak. McDonald’s, Wal-Mart and other U.S. chains have halted sales of some raw tomatoes as federal health officials work to trace the source of a multistate salmonella food poisoning outbreak.

What are they storing these tomatoes in? Looking at this photo, I never want to eat tomatoes again.

This is such a staged photo. The Abe Vigoda looking guy is U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s acting regional director Mark Roh. That spiffy white lab coat he is wearing says “B. Fox” over the left breast. I’m guessing Roh stole the lab coat from one of the real microbiologists trying to solve this nasty salmonella problem just so he could pose for the photo.

What a douche.

(AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)

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