Would you like tomato on that?

[kadee]

It will probably cost you more...sooner or later!

A burger with all the fixings just lost a key player. On Feb. 11, all 6,500 Wendy's locations in the U.S., posted signs at their drive-through windows and counters announcing that customers must specially request a tomato slice on all burgers and chicken sandwiches.

Hurricanes, hard freezes, blight. The world can be tough for a tomato. And thanks to an unusually cold winter in both Florida and Mexico, our country's main sources of the red stuff, times are tough for Wendy's customers, too. These cold blasts from Mother Nature are to blame for halving the normal yield and doubling prices of tomatoes, making them too precious for automatic inclusion in your fast-food sandwich. According to the Florida Tomato Growers Exchange, it's highly unusual for Florida and Mexico to experience freezes in the same season.

www.delish.com/food/recalls-reviews/wendys-burgers-tomato-shortage?GT1=47001

[busymom]

It's a good thing I grow tomatoes in my garden every summer! Potluck, anyone?

[Becks]

This reminds me of a job I had at the "have it your way' burger chain. Back in the 80's a guy came in and wanted extra cheese on his burger. No problem but thats $.10 extra. Fine. Now he wants extra tomato, that was an additional $.15.

So he gets all po'd when I tell him his total, when it was clearly stated that those extra were, well, extra. He stomps out and then puts his foot right through the front glass door. He takes off, police arrive and ask which way he went.

One customer points down the road in the direction of the Super 8, and thinks he might be there since he is such a cheapskate. Police locate man and find that he is in..., wait for it.... the window glass business. He sends someone over to replace the glass. Talk about a weird turn of events, all over $.25. The tomato will get you every time...

[sapphire12]

I"m actually okay with this as I don't like tomatoes on my burgers.

[❤ mollymouser ❤]

I had a B.L.A.T. for lunch. (Bacon, lettuce, tomato and avocado!)

[writer88]

No problem!
Just import 'em from Israel!

Here, tomatoes are on sale for NIS 2.49 a kilo ($0.31 a pound)

[daisylu]

I worked at a Tastee Freez in the early 90's, and if you ordered a burger that did not come with tomato there was a .25 charge to add it.