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You Say Tomato, I Say Canker Sore.

Sunday, August 1st, 2010

It’s been one week since I shopped at Sam’s Club and popped that huge carton of cherry tomatoes into my cart.  And I’ve been shoving handfuls of the mini fruits in my mouth ever since.  

I eat tomatoes and eggs in the mornings.  I eat tomatoes on salads in the afternoons.  I eat tomatoes and hummus for snacks.  And I eat some sort of tomato side with whatever meal I make for dinners.  But no matter how many fist fulls of the fruits I consume, that tub of tomatoes never ends.  Never.

It wasn’t until Friday when my gums were red and raw and a couple of cankers were created that I began to question all the produce I’ve been pounding.  So I did what any good researcher would do and Googled it. 

I started to type in the three words, ’are tomatoes acidic’, into the Google tool bar, you know the one.  It’s the one you type your question into and then, in case you’re interested, the search engine gives you the top 10 tomato related questions others have wondered in the resent past. 

And here they are. 

Is it just me, or are you wondering too what is wrong with people?

I have, in the meantime, discovered tomatoes are acidic and can cause raw gums and canker sores when consumed in large quantities.  I guess 40 to 50 cherry tomatoes a day falls into the large quantity category.  Thanks Google for the handy dandy information. 

Now, I just need to Google why people are so obsessed with feeding tomatoes to their dogs.

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