Have you seen the new tomato prices?

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Pat in TX - 25 Oct 2006 21:22 GMT

Yikes! about 3 days ago, I bought some Roma tomatoes for $1.24 a pound.
Yesterday at Wal-Mart, they were $2.68 a pound. You could have knocked me
over with a feather! (my jaw was already on the floor)

I came home and googled tomato prices. It seems there is a shortage of
tomatoes from the hot/dry summer, and we're just now feeling the pinch.

Pat in TX

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Hannah Gruen - 27 Oct 2006 09:15 GMT

"Pat in TX" <Pat@nearnews.com> wrote in message

> I came home and googled tomato prices. It seems there is a shortage of
> tomatoes from the hot/dry summer, and we're just now feeling the pinch.

Oh, so that is what is going on. Tomato prices got lowish for a couple weeks
this summer, and then zoomed up again here in DE. They have seemed high ever
since, so I have not been buying them.

I can get imported strawberries for the same price... or lower... than
mediocre tomatoes! I do like a couple slices of tomato with my breakfast
eggs... sometimes with a few drops of balsamic vinegar. Guess I'll have to
get over the sticker shock.

HG

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Noway2 - 27 Oct 2006 19:44 GMT

> "Pat in TX" <Pat@nearnews.com> wrote in message
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> HG

The grocery store had a sign up about this the other day. I just
looked at it and tossed it up another line of bs and an attempt to rip
off the customer.

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Pat in TX - 27 Oct 2006 23:24 GMT

> The grocery store had a sign up about this the other day. I just
> looked at it and tossed it up another line of bs and an attempt to rip
> off the customer.

It's not "BS" or an attempt to rip off anybody. Read up on the hot/dry
summer and you'll find out that a lot of the tomato farmers are hurting.

Pat in TX

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