Alexm > wrote in news:1189744148.937986.133260@
22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com:

> 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
>
>

A true tale of horror I say! Were there no pieces of toast or a dab or 3
of mayo laying readily to hand? With or without the required thick slices
of turkey, the toasted tomato sandwich slathered in mayo or as some
prefer Miracle whip, is the true food of the Gods. Lacking even those
requiremnets the tomato should have met it's end properly... sliced and
eaten with liberal use of salt and pepper.

--

The house of the burning beet-Alan

It'll be a sunny day in August, when the Moon will shine that night-
Elbonian Folklore