"Silvar Beitel" > wrote in message
...
> Finally getting some ripe tomatoes from the garden. Damn, they're
> good. Trouble is, Mr. Woodchuck has been around sampling them. About
> half have bites take out of them.
>
> I'm thinking I'll just cut out the nibbled areas and use them - but
> not raw, just in case Mr. Woodchuck (and I suppose it could be
> something else) has some horrible disease - will probably thoroughly
> cook them down into sauce of some sort.
>
> Sound reasonable to you?
>

Yep! But I would wash them and eat them raw. Usually diseases don't carry
between animals and people. (I've never seen a rabid woodchuck ...)