wOw's Views on the News | 06/12/2008 12:00 am

If It's Not a Tomato That Gets You ...

By The Staff at wowOwow.com

Yesterday it was lettuce, today it’s tomatoes. Many supermarkets and fast-food chains across the United States are suspending their use of Roma, plum and round tomatoes after tomato-linked salmonella sickened 167 people across 17 states. Click here to read about it on Foxnews.com and click here to read about it on Bostonherald.com. It’s also come to light that the safety of salmon is now in question. Click here to read about this in The New York Times.

It seems that no food is immune to disease lately. So we want to know: What foods are you afraid of?

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Chicken, the way chickens are raised treated: brutally. Any food where chemicals or hormones could be put in. I’m not afraid, but I am cautious. I don’t eat a lot of beef. You just have to exercise common sense. Living in Russia helped train us.

By Esther Bradley-DeTally on 06/12/2008 12:49 am

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Anything fried. I cannot stand fried food. Or red meat. Or spices of any kind. So, especially no spicy, fried, red meat. Other than that, I have never met a vegetable I did not like. I have been told the tomatoes in NY are okay to eat. I will live dangerously and eat a ripe tomato. And definitely no frog’s legs!

By kermie b on 06/12/2008 2:07 am

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There are some foods I just don’t like but to be afraid of a food is something different. Some of the soups/stews prepared in Asia frighten me because if you ask what is in the dish, you will be very sorry that you did ask — and there goes dinner. Also, I am afraid of hot peppers.

By Bonnie Oliver on 06/12/2008 3:36 am

I have recently been getting organic Scottish salmon , but at $20/lb I have cut back because that seems so outrageous. Organic should help- but there are not enough people to enforce all of the government standards so who knows what you are really paying for and eating. Moderation & variety should help minimize bad results from any particular item - that we don’t yet know about. Something is going to eventually “get us”. My son said research proves that if we were to cure all cancer life expetancy would increase 2-3 years. Itf we were to cure cancer and haert disease life expectancy will increase 4-5 years. Why so little improvement? Because something else will come along and get us. Research says the only way to truly extend life is to reducing aging. I have always thought- in jest- with the chemical preservatives we have been ingesting since our wonder bread childhoods that we will be extending our shelf life indefinitely while making our bodies non biodegradable. Time for humans to mutate to adapt to our new environment.

By Kay Sara on 06/12/2008 4:53 am

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I have always been the one to eat just about anything. But not long ago, we went to a Chinese buffet. I spooned a portion of something on my plate. Lordy! There were eyeballs looking at me. Apparently a small squid had made into the cook’s concoction. And I supposed to eat that???? Not!! I put down my plate there and then. After that I stuck to the American looking dishes … or at least I couldn’t recognize any eyeballs. So, now I am afraid of Asian food in general. ROFL

By doll lady on 06/12/2008 5:05 am

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I have a question? Are we supposed to comment under the general post or reply to each WoW Woman because there are also other comments that are not seen here.

By Brooklyn Gal on 06/12/2008 5:40 am

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My biggest food concerns are 1) all meat and dairy sourced through corporate factory farm operations. 2) all veg sourced through corporate factory farm operations. 3) any and all genetically modified food products. 4) all liquids or partly liquid foods packaged in plastic. 5) all fish, especially farm raised fish. I know. There’s virtually nothing left to put in my shopping cart. In the USA the family farm has become a rarity. Big business has taken over and will squeeze every bit of juice it can out of its operations with as little concern about public safety or humane treatment of animals as it can possibly get away with. I’m not paranoid, we’re not wealthy and we do have to eat so I just plow ahead, feeding our little family what seem to me, all things considered, to be the healthiest and cost effective options. I am beginning to scale back the amount of animal products that I eat because of unhealthy and incredibly inhumane practices in the factory farms where most meat and dairy come from in the USA. I can foresee a day when I will become a vegetarian or maybe even a vegan. Hopefully I’ll have expanded my little garden by then =]

By E . on 06/12/2008 11:21 am

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Carol L - You are right. There are more comments found in response to each of wowowow founders’ remarks. Unless you pull up each comment and read the responses, you miss some of the discussion. Cumbersome to say the least as each discussion will have four, five or six threads depending upon the number of remarks made by the founders. It might be a good idea for the webmaster to coorindate all the remarks.

By Bonnie Oliver on 06/12/2008 7:49 pm

I do not fear the tomato - not a very picky eater…though I do want to know WHAT I am eating. No surprise ingredients please! I’m a Southern cook, so things are pretty simple and I use a lot of fresh ingredients. At this time of year, our farmer’s markets are over flowing with wonderful things to choose from. Though I do admit…I’m not afraid to use the deep fryer in my kitchen…and my husband and kids LOVE that! Life is short…and lets face it, some things are better fried!

By J B on 06/12/2008 6:19 am

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basically just about all ‘fresh’ foods…bake it, boil it, can it…i’ll eat it…i’m more certain every day that the personal hygiene of food handlers from field to slaughterhouse to processing plants has literally ‘gone in the toilet’…wash your hands, people!!!you’re affecting all the rest of us with your dirtiness!!!just a little bottle of hand sanitizer would work miracles…

By theCHEROKEErose on 06/12/2008 9:11 am

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Store-brand ground meat. Any ground meat “with flavorings.”

By rocky rocky on 06/12/2008 9:56 am

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I’m in the Candice camp…chocolate truffes, and a nice glass of red wine. Add a few good friends and another glass of wine, and I become less and less concerned about tomatoes, lettuce, or whichever current creepy little microbes that are currently coming after me. I figure the alcohol will kill them.

By K O on 06/12/2008 10:16 am

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After having been a Peace Corps Volunteer in the 70s and eating “native” I’m just about immune to everything. I’ll spare you the detail, but my family and I had bouts of every intestinal illness imaginable, despite all the precautions we took. So I worry very little about the food scares. I may boycott spinach or tomatoes for awhile, but sooner or later I’ll eat something on the suspect list. The short answer, of course, is to grow your own and fortify yourself with the best alcohol you can afford. After seeing “Sideways” I promised myself I’d never drink Two Buck Chucks wine again.

By Maurine H on 06/12/2008 12:06 pm