dsi1 wrote:

> On Sunday, January 21, 2018 at 7:34:45 PM UTC-10, Julie Bove wrote:
> > Is anyone else having this problem?
> >
> > I posted a few weeks back about the Kumatos that I bought. They
> > were upside down in a package. The bottoms looked fine but the tops
> > showed them to be rotten. I only bought those because oddly enough
> > they were cheaper than the other tomatoes.
> >
> > Then I bought grape tomatoes at another store. Used half. Next day
> > went to use the other half and they had black mold spots on them.
> >
> > Ordered cherry tomatoes to be delivered from PCC. Got tiny grape
> > ones instead. A substitute I guess. I had gone with the cherry they
> > were cheaper but they did not charge me more for what I got. Did
> > not use them until the next day. One was shriveled. But two days
> > later, the rest are shriveled.
> >
> > Why are the tomatoes rotting so quickly?
>
> My guess is that you have some strain of fungus growing in your
> kitchen. My guess is that it'll go away in a short while or it may
> linger for years. I had some fungus that attacked my cooked rice in
> my kitchen. That went on for years. It went away because for a time,
> I stopped cooking rice.

I'm thnking something like that too is possible (at least for some of
it). Julie is in a fairly damp climate I gather. It's not like she
has mold climbing the walls or anything, but she may still have a
potential spore issue there.

I have a friend who can't get a good sourdough starter going. Seems it
always turns pink on him. He lives in a well forested area and his
backyard is pretty much natural mulch from leaves and mold. His case
is fairly radical but Julie may have something a little like it going
on. 'No see'um' spores or something?

On the other comments on it being the store selling lower quality items
to delivery customers, I don't buy into that one. They'd horrifically
lose all customers for that venue if so and all the ones *here*, all
you have to do if call and they comeback, replace, and it's *free* then.

That all said, I have one store near me that I won't get any fresh
foods from. I believe it is at least partly a local manager issue.
The super WalMart nearest me. It used to be good but then they dummied
down what the manager could do to ensure best produce and he quit.
Since then, I've had so many things mold the next day, I stopped using
them at all. No other stores have that issue so it's not something
environmental to my place.