On Sep 13, 11:55 am, Steve Wertz > wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:37:00 -0700, Alexm wrote:
> > The tomato is now gone. I sliced it and on two trips to McDonald's I
> > took a slice with me ( to the drive in). Each time I ordered a plain
> > cheeseburger and dumped the tomato slice on it. Very tasty.
> > The remaining slices were just eaten by themselves. Now I have to get
> > more tomatoes to do the sun dried thing using some of the posted
> > methods but not yours of course. I want something other than a pile
> > of black dust. ( : - ]
>
> That must have been a heartbreaking decision for this prized
> tomato - to sun-dry this one, lone tomato, or to use it on
> McDonalds hamburgers.
>
> How did you sleep?
>
> -sw

Well, I was sitting on a barstool in front of that tomato minding my
own business while mulling over this problem. I kept asking myself
whether to sun-dry or not to sun-dry. In the meantrime the sky got
cloudy and it became nearly noon. It was around then I considered a
different option and began asking myself whether to slice or not to
slice. Whether to dry or not to dry seemed less important . I even
began talking out loud to myself about all this. (As a matter of note
it slowly became rather clear to me that the tomato did not react at
all and, indeed, remained remarkably aloof ). The clock struck noon
and McDonald's arches viividly flashed into my mind - and the rest
is history. Later I slept very well because, I reasoned, no matter
what happened that tomato was to be eventually devoured. Furthermore
slicing and eating was a much more humane process than what would have
been the long and slow torture of drying and eating. On the downside
- the vision of that once beautiful tomato returns to haunt me once
in a while. But what the heck, if it were not for me that tomato could
just as well have ended up in Famous Dave's Texas Pit BBQ
Sauce.instead of inside a wonderful plain cheeeseburger at McDonald's.

AlexM