Nancy Young wrote:
>
> "Lou Decruss" > wrote
>
> > On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:57:25 -0400, "Nancy Young" >
> > wrote:
>
> >>I just bought two round tomatoes a couple days ago. Taking
> >>no chances, I tossed them. Not in a salad. Heh. Maybe I'm
> >>being overly cautious but really, I can live without tomato on my
> >>sandwiches until they sort this out.
> >
> > We tossed a few out also. Last night Louise went to TJ's to get some
> > snack type crap to send to her dad for fathers day. That's about all
> > the 89 yr old wants. I'd told her I had no interest in cooking dinner
> > and we could just do sandwiches. While there she grabbed a bag of
> > pita's thinking of the gyros I've been making using -sw's recipe. So
> > with that in her head she stopped and bought gyros. When we started
> > eating she suddenly realized there was tomatoes in them. I told her
> > they were already cut and pulling them off wouldn't do much good as
> > they've bleed into everything else. She did anyway. I kept mine on.
> > Hopefully we'll be ok.
>
> Me too. It's worth the risk to have gyros anyway!
>
> nancy

Boil the heck out of any tomatoes (after washing them thoroughly) bought
recently. Make sauce or ketchup or better still slice and fry the
underripe ones! Not many bacteria survive deep-frying.