Tomatos on Strike! (Political)

[amicus]

...well kinda, tongue in cheek political, jus a little slap & tickle, as it were.

I had fresh tomato's from my garden, all summer long because I like them lil devils and I was glad the vines produced well as the price remained high, all summer, around $2.00 per pound and the quality was not the best.

And today my mouth was set, (y'all know what that means) for a big ole BLT. crisp lettuce, crisp maple cured bacon and think juicy slices of tomato on rye bread slathered in real mayo.

Thusly, I trundled off to the only grocery market in this lil burg I live near, to purchase the ingredients for my envisioned bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich.

Down the produce cooler along the west wall to where the tomato's always were and...nary a one. What? I musta missed em cruising past the cukes and peppers; so back I went to the very end and all the way back to the other. Not a big red juicy tomato in sight.

Just then the manager came out of a back room, (I recognized him from an earlier time), "So, what," I quipped, "tomato's went out on strike?"

He growled, "They came in this morning, price went through the roof. Minimum wage goes up the first of the year and prices on everything have gone crazy!"

Ah, minimum wage, the democrats delight, pander to the lower class to gain their votes, yeah, I knew, pay no attention that the small business owners have no choice but to raise prices across the board to cover the increased prices of goods and labor.

"Not only that..." I smiled to calm him as he sounded pissed. "but the drought in the Florida region where most of the winter veggies are grown in the US has diminished crops to less than half of normal production."

"Yeah," He came back, "Damned global warming, hell, we can't win for losing."

He wasn't about to be appeased and stomped off muttering to himself.

And I didn't even want to mention the global warming thing was all a hoax, he didn't need to hear that in his current mood.

So, alas, no big juicy BLT for me this day.

Season's Greetings, Y'all, and may you prosper in the coming year.

Amicus...

 

[xssve]

Yeah, I'm sure it has nothing to do with the witch hunt on illegals - go do your part and send your kids out to pick Tomatoes and learn the value of dollar amicus.

Hint: it's piecework, which means you get paid by the bushel, not an hourly wage - otherwise the guy who picks Five Tomatoes an hour would be gatting paid the same as the woman that picks Five bushels - that wouldn't be fair, now would it?

 

[amicus]

Yeah, I'm sure it has nothing to do with the witch hunt on illegals - go do your part and send your kids out to pick Tomatoes and learn the value of dollar amicus.

Hint: it's piecework, which means you get paid by the bushel, not an hourly wage - otherwise the guy who picks Five Tomatoes an hour would be gatting paid the same as the woman that picks Five bushels - that wouldn't be fair, now would it?

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Witch hunt on people in this country without permission? You have to have a twisted mind to deny that a nation has an obligation to secure its borders.

Giving you the benefit of the doubt that you are merely ignorant of the facts, but tomatos have not been hand picked, or 'piece work' for years, machines harvest the fruit, hourly labor sorts and boxes it.

Although the Democrats and Labor Unions fought against mechanization for years to preserve the back breaking jobs, machines are more efficient, quicker and far most cost efficient than human labor.

If the left and the labor unions had their way, they would insist that plows be drawn by horses and the land seeded by hand to simply keep the working class employed, ya, know, like Roosevelt, digging holes and filling them in again as gainful employment.

Amicus...

 

[Boxlicker101]

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Witch hunt on people in this country without permission? You have to have a twisted mind to deny that a nation has an obligation to secure its borders.

Giving you the benefit of the doubt that you are merely ignorant of the facts, but tomatos have not been hand picked, or 'piece work' for years, machines harvest the fruit, hourly labor sorts and boxes it.

Although the Democrats and Labor Unions fought against mechanization for years to preserve the back breaking jobs, machines are more efficient, quicker and far most cost efficient than human labor.

If the left and the labor unions had their way, they would insist that plows be drawn by horses and the land seeded by hand to simply keep the working class employed, ya, know, like Roosevelt, digging holes and filling them in again as gainful employment.

Amicus...

Many years ago, when I couldn't get any other kind of work, I used to do stoop labor, including picking tomatoes. Usually we were paid by the box, sometimes the bucket. Later on, most of it was done by machine, but we still used to pick storage tomatoes. These were basically green tomatoes, that were not totally green, that were put into cold storage until winter so they could be put on the market and called "vine-ripened". We were always told that Americans wouldn't do work like that, but I was living proof that was not so.

That was almost 40 years ago, and I certainly don't miss it. I don't know if they still pick storage tomatoes or not.

A BLT is better on toast, either rye or whole wheat.

 

[amicus]

I agree...a BLT is better on toast...

I did the same stoop labor you did, Box, as a kid and yes it was piece work, by the flat for strawberries, weight for green beans, by the box for apples and pears, but an hourly wage was paid for hoeing and more if you could drive a tractor or operate machinery.

But almost everything has become mechanized over the years, again, against the resistance of the labor unions who still feel that machinery and innovation destroys jobs...silly fools...

Amicus...

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

BLT on toast? No fucking way, Jose. Ham on toast.

Around here we filled all the tomato fields with public housing for Mexican migrant workers.

 

[xssve]

Uh, the liberal prediction was: crack down on illegals, deal with commodity inflation.

Call it one for science over superstition.