Meanwhile, Jo and I thought the sale was due to a revelation that the Italian-seeming cans are actually a domestic product. While local is in, canned tomatoes fall into this category of foodstuffs still deemed inferior if not from the assumed location. San Marzano tomatoes are not, in fact, San Marzano tomatoes. Thank you, Red Hook Fairway:
Cheapness note: those same cans are going for 30 cents less at Whole Foods than the Fairway sale price, suggesting the predictable difference in concern about toxins of shoppers at the two stores.
*An artistic rendering of my apartment:
And for fun, a sign on a men's shoe store in my neighborhood:
4 comments:
Shrug... I bet so long as canned tomatoes are cheap, all restaurants, fast food joints, delis etc. will continue using them. The folks worried about prenatal exposure and making their babies fat and stupid can buy the tomatoes in glass jars.
Oh, I have no doubt that even superposh restaurants use some canned goods - they're sort of unavoidable. I'm not throwing mine out, at any rate.
I read the article he linked to. There was no mention of canned tomatoes, but the only products that seemed to have a worrying amount of bpa or whatever it was were canned soups and canned green beans. The other ones mentioned had lower amounts. My guess is, while it would be better if they stopped putting bpa in cans, it's not going to kill you any faster than your microwave's evil rays or your cell phone's radiation, or whatever else we should be worrying about these days.
From the comments at the Times, it seems that BPA is harmless, unsurprisingly.
(And the reply to that being pointed out, in the comments, is hilarious.
"STATS is biased because FOXNEWS! SHUT UP the corporations want to kill us all!"
I can't even mock these people effectively.)
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