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TinyBlueDot

(20 posts)
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 12:09 AM Jul 2025

Do you think there will be a run on

Ketchup like there was on toilet paper?
If there is no one to pick all the tomatoes then will it affect the products made with tomatoes: ketchup; spaghetti sauce; salsa...?
Then will we go to the store and there are just bare shelves?

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Do you think there will be a run on (Original Post) TinyBlueDot Jul 2025 OP
nah ketchup/catsup keeps for centuries in the back of the fridge nt msongs Jul 2025 #1
A lot of those processed tomato products are made with mechanically harvested tomatoes. RockRaven Jul 2025 #2
I keep my distance. usonian Jul 2025 #3
The Greatification is ON!!!!! BurnDoubt Jul 2025 #4

RockRaven

(19,754 posts)
2. A lot of those processed tomato products are made with mechanically harvested tomatoes.
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 12:27 AM
Jul 2025

People who have driven north and south on I-5 or Hwy-99 in CA will probably have seen lots of trucks hauling tomatoes in (usually two) open top trailers. Those are the mechanically harvested ones.

https://boomcalifornia.org/2013/06/24/thinking-through-the-tomato-harvester/

There still is some labor involved, of course, just not as much as in the past.

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