"cshenk" > wrote in message
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> 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.

There are some stores here where I will not buy meat or produce unless it is
some branded/prepackaged item. Trader Joes is an exception. I will buy
neither from them. Too many meat recalls for my liking and the produce I've
bought in the past is almost always bad.