Over 50's club

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3M (aka MarkyMarkMark) Jun 2022 11:58am, 27 Jun 2022 18,484 posts	0 3M (aka MarkyMarkMark) Having spent a summer picking tomatoes as a teen, I didn'yt eat another unwashed one for a long time! (Every shift finished with a scrub to get the green gunk (slimy when wet) off my hands. I think it was basically whatever was in the fertiliser/pesticide they sprayed them with. But it was disgusting, smelly, and I suspect, very organic!)
um Jun 2022 12:06pm, 27 Jun 2022 6,212 posts	0 um Tomato Tar 3M. Natural from the plant. Even my home grown ones have it. Best washed off with something acidic - eg vinegar.
Ness Jun 2022 12:08pm, 27 Jun 2022 22,636 posts	0 Ness Nasty! My student jobs in McDonalds (only lasted three days) and a mushroom farm (didn’t do many more shifts there) put me off McDonalds and mushrooms for quite a while!
3M (aka MarkyMarkMark) Jun 2022 12:10pm, 27 Jun 2022 18,487 posts	0 3M (aka MarkyMarkMark) I suppose that just goes to show even (or especially) natural products can be pretty rank,
Ness Jun 2022 12:12pm, 27 Jun 2022 22,637 posts	0 Ness Indeed! Although it wasn’t the mushrooms that were the problem. More to do with what they were being grown in!
Alice the Camel Jun 2022 12:43pm, 27 Jun 2022 11,378 posts	0 Alice the Camel As Solo says, ignorance is bliss!
Bazoaxe Jun 2022 1:38pm, 27 Jun 2022 22,902 posts	0 Bazoaxe I had a weekend job in a frozen food shop. One of my tasks towards the end of each day was to gather up any loose sausages in the freezers and through the back of the shop I had spare bag and a machine that sealed them shut. I could easily churn out a few packs of sausages for the unsuspecting customers to purchase
GlennR Jun 2022 4:22pm, 27 Jun 2022 64,082 posts	0 GlennR I worked in the local jam factory, originally on the mincemeat production line. The smell of frying insects was quite something. I also worked in a small bakery that made (or "raised") its own pork pies. I remember the slab of pig, complete with hairy skin, being carried onto the premises...
Gobi Jun 2022 8:24pm, 27 Jun 2022 77,226 posts	0 Gobi 3 second rule and the rest, my mum used that one as well. Brother worked at Maccies, I worked in chippy. Never saw anything that's put me off either.
Minimag Jun 2022 8:39pm, 27 Jun 2022 601 posts	0 Minimag I used to workd for a commercial tomato grower, even back in the 1980's they were using something called integrated pest management (IPM) which meant they were not spraying crops with chemicals. These day's it will be even more closely monitored. They assumption that growers use chemicals indiscrimitately is seriously outdated.