The tomato glut has started.

[Peacetrain]

I need some ideas on how to handle all these tomatoes that are coming in. I have given to neighbors, co workers, my Mom, and they are still coming in hand over fist. I have made so many tomato based meals even my husband (who will eat anything) is becoming overwhelmed! The food pantry and soup kitchen are also a beneficiary of our overwhelming abundance this year.

So far this is what I have come up with for my excessive tomatoes:

1. Set up a picture of Steve King and let passerby have a tomato toss at the picture for fifty cents (to be donated to the Heifer Project). Of course I may have to move out of my town afterwards, since I am on the conservative side of the state.

2. Let them get slightly rotted and mail to Jerome Corsi in appreciation of his latest pile of garbage that has been published.

3. Better yet mail same said slightly rotted tomatoes to the publisher of the Corsi book.

Any other ideas for these red orbs, large and small will be appreciated. The thought of a midnight raid on the garden and pulling up the plants by their hairy little roots has also crossed my mind. :think:

[chiefofclarinet]

1. Hmm....

Well, as a biochemist (in training), I'm giving this idea some serious thought.

I know that using ethylene ripens tomatoes. (just about the only thing I learned from Biology I...) So, you could speed up the process of spoilage by shipping a bunch of tomatoes to various people (Steve King, Chuck Grassley, Jerome Corsi, Ann Coulter, you get the idea) in a container of ethylene. Also, with the Salmonella outbreaks with tomatoes, sending tomatoes to these individuals will get them even more worried, which is a nice bonus.

It might be possible to make a "tomato bomb" using the same ingredients as the previously mentioned tomato mailings. Plus, if you add some sort of way to make a spark, the flammable ethylene will burn, releasing the smell (and also some splatter) of rotten tomatoes.

Also, why not give the people the chance to throw a tomato at other (in)famous Republicans? You could pelt Bush, Cheney, Rice, McCain, Lieberman, etc. etc. etc. with rotten tomatoes. Even in Western Iowa, there have got to be people that would like to take their anger out on Bush.

Anyone else have any good ideas?

[Peacetrain]

2. ~ROFL~

Tomato bombs, now that was funny. There is a movie, and I mean a BAD movie called the "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes".. Lots of tomato splats ..

I think I have come up with the ultimate tomato idea, Farmers Market.. I will give them away, but with each bunch of tomatoes, a flyer with Why You Want to Vote Obama!! Because his supporters give out free tomatoes.:)

Now the zucchini.. well that might not work, actually might backfire, neighbors see you coming with zucchini lock the doors. :rofl: