Jezebel: Tomatoes

Sloppy Romance At The World's Biggest Tomato Fight

Margaret Hartmann — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:46:00 EDT

[Bunol, Spain, August 25. Revellers cuddle in tomato pulp during La Tomatina festival. More than 45,000 people participated in this year's festival, throwing over 100 tons of rotten and over-ripe tomatoes. Image via Getty.]

Store Fears Repeat Tomato Attack Against Palin

Margaret Hartmann — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:30:00 EST

Tomatoes were temporarily taken off the shelves of a Utah Costco last week while Sarah Palin did a book signing. The management didn't want their produce hurled at Palin and figured protesters wouldn't resort to tube socks. [N.Y. Magazine] More »

Merry/Ripe

Anna Holmes — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:10:00 EDT

[Bunol, Spain; August 26. Image via Getty]

Fried Green Tomatoes

Anna Holmes — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:10:00 EDT

[Havana, June 23. Image via Getty]

Talk To Her

Sadie Stein — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:30:00 EDT

A study by Britain's Royal Horticultural Society has found that tomato plants grew up to two inches taller when women gardeners talked to them regularly than when men did. Presumably this only works when the women don't insult plants. [Telegraph] More »

Just Don't Go There

Megan Carpentier — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:30:43 EDT

In an interview on Glamocracy (also known as "the other place I blog") with Glamour's Cindi Leive, Barack Obama said that he's infuriated by right-wing attacks on his wife. Maybe he and Bill will actually have something to talk about next time they talk. [Glamocracy]
The Nation has a new sex columnist, JoAnn Wypikewski. JoAnn thinks that there are "legions of little girls jumping out of their panties" for Obama, which manages to be stupid, demeaning, creepy and sexist all at the same time! "Ugh" is right. [The Nation, Salon]
Oh, and conservative talk show host Michael Savage thinks that autistic children are just "[brats] who [haven't] been told to cut the act." Why the fuck do people listen to this asshole again? [Media Matters]

If We're All Going to Die Anyway...

Megan Carpentier — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:00:02 EDT

So, hooray, Ted Kennedy is out of the hospital. [NY Times]
But, tomatoes might kill all of us, and I ain't even talking about the mutant kind. [Washington Post, Killer Tomatoes, with full info from the FDA]
But daily sex with your partner definitely won't, though it will propel you to the top of the NY Times most emailed list and, actually, that might be more depressing than killer tomatoes. [NY Times]
But it's okay because the Democrats "stunning" refusal to grant telephone companies legal immunity for doing potentially illegal things means the terrorists are all winning so we'll all be dead soon, so you might as well eat some damn tomatoes and try fucking tonight. [NY Times]