The Tomato Crisis...what a joke!

[SwampDonkey]

Shellfish scare here over the weekend. Some bad muscles or similar have a neurotoxic disease, causes numbness and paralysis. They say only buy from reputable dealers, as if I go around with such a list. Lord help us.  :

[SeeSaw]

Don P,

Your analogy of Monsanto is probably really close to reality.  Scary thing indeed.  I've never seen the word Gestapoesk used before and I'm not certain that it is a proper word,   But I'll tell ya what,  I like it!!  Thanks,

SeeSaw

[DanG]

Now that they have ruined thousands of farmers and packers, the FDA now says it wasn't tomatoes after all. :  Now they are going after jalapeno peppers and cilantro from Mexico.  Now I ask you, what sense does it make to import fruits and vegetables that are to be eaten raw from a country where you aren't supposed to drink the water? ???

[Engineer]

Whoda thunkit?  Jalapenos and cilantro?  Good thing I don't eat either one of those things. 

Now I can go back to buying those nice rock-hard, semi-ripe but bruised and half-rotten ugly things they call tomatoes at the grocery store, at least until the ones in the garden are ready.

[Don_Papenburg]

SEESAW, I have been known to use a word or two that ain't proper.  I was trying to come up with a way to describe how that company operates .  Maybe not as bad as the gestapo but danG close.  Look in your new 2015 copy of Websters dictionary:Gestapoesk,  To act like a gestapo agent. An overly forceful ,rude , pushy ,person or company

[Don_Papenburg]

DanG , if it went so serious it would be funny.  I heard that some farmers plowed under their crops.  That could have been profit that would help the economy and raise the GNP.   >:( :(

[easymoney]

in your new 2015 copy of Websters dictionary:Gestapoesk,  To act like a gestapo agent. An overly forceful ,rude , pushy ,person or company


for a minute there i thought you was describing my ex wife.

[SeeSaw]

I agree. That's why I like the word so much.  The description exactly describes my ex wife to the 'T'.  Now I have a word for her and others like that.  I'm thinkin this word may get some mileage and be in Websters before 2015. :D

[Don_Papenburg]

 :D I have heard that about a lot of exwives, glad I don't have any ;D ;D