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Tomato products

Epicurean — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 16:58:55 GMT

Anyone who uses can tomatoes,sauce,paste,pizza sauce,ketchup etc. it would be wise to stock up on tomato products.
because of the heat and drought in California tomatoes are already short going to the canners. It will probably get worse.

just thought you might want to know.

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spud188 — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 17:05:41 GMT

Thank you for the heads up.

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Kachina624 — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 17:22:42 GMT

You can't keep tomato products for an extended period. The acid in the tomatoes eats the can and they explode. You haven't seen a mess until a can of tomato paste explodes in your cupboard.

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PickyPicky3 — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 17:33:25 GMT

My favorite canned tomato brand is Furmano. Grown in Pennsylvania and Maryland.

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Tinkrbl44 — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 17:47:03 GMT

@Epicurean wrote:
Anyone who uses can tomatoes,sauce,paste,pizza sauce,ketchup etc. it would be wise to stock up on tomato products.
because of the heat and drought in California tomatoes are already short going to the canners. It will probably get worse.
just thought you might want to know.

@Epicurean

??? Can you please name your source for this information?

Not to put too fine a point on it, but California has been having an ongoing drought since around 2001. This isn't new information.

Tomatoes are grown all over the country, so even if no freshly-grown tomatoes left the state this season, there are plenty of other sources all over the country.

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Tinkrbl44 — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 17:48:57 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
You can't keep tomato products for an extended period. The acid in the tomatoes eats the can and they explode. You haven't seen a mess until a can of tomato paste explodes in your cupboard.

@Kachina624

This happened to a friend of mine .... not pretty.

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jlkz — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 18:00:01 GMT

In addition to tomatoes grown in PA and NJ, they are also imported from Italy.

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CoffeeNut — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:02:59 GMT

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millieshops — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 18:27:22 GMT

@CoffeeNut We should be so lucky that only one kind of food is going to increase in price!

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RedTop — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 18:47:09 GMT

I've already started my fall/winter stocking, and ordered 2 cases of tomato sauce, and 2 cases of diced tomatoes in July.

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PA Mom-mom — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 18:54:52 GMT

@PickyPicky3 wrote:
My favorite canned tomato brand is Furmano. Grown in Pennsylvania and Maryland.

@PickyPicky3 My favorite brand too! Gotta love local!

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LizzieInSRQ — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 18:58:17 GMT

No thanks, I won't hoard period, it causes problems when done en mass.

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Tinkrbl44 — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 19:43:54 GMT

I live in CA, and based on what I know about this state's farming, what will probably jump in price is avocados. Since they are also shipped in from Mexico and other places, I'm not sure how much overall price difference you will see.

Fortunately, we get food from many places.

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Epicurean — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 21:24:16 GMT

FYI, 90% of tomatoes that go to canners are grown in California. I read this story in the business section of the Washington Post.

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proudlyfromNJ — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 21:47:13 GMT

Our stores carry the Jersey tomato stuff. That's what we usually buy.

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PickyPicky3 — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 22:01:35 GMT

@proudlyfromNJ I'm curious what brand you're referring to. Beloved Campbell's from Camden is now all California tomatoes. Cento's imports from Italy. Sadly, there's not enough tomato farm acreage left in NJ to support a large distributor. If you know something I don't, please share. I'll buy.

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proudlyfromNJ — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 22:14:54 GMT

We buy the Jersey Fresh products and my favorite pizza sauce Don Pepinos.

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Zhills — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 22:17:48 GMT

Florida is second to California in tomato production.

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Mindy D — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 22:28:08 GMT

"California grows more than 90 percent of Americans' canned tomatoes and a third of the world's. Ongoing drought in the state has hurt the planting and harvesting of many summer crops, but water-hungry "processing tomatoes" are caught up in a particularly treacherous swirl (a "tormado"?) of problems that experts say will spur prices to surge far more than they already have."

Quoted from The Washington a post, Get ready to pay more for tomatoes, as California growers reel from extreme weather," by Laura Riley.

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PickyPicky3 — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 22:32:07 GMT

@proudlyfromNJ "Jersey Fresh" fresh tomatoes from ShopRite? They're better than the others, but still not the glorious tomatoes from my youth. To get those, you have to grow them yourself or drive around the southern NJ counties to find small farm stands. It's like trying to find non-GMO corn.

I was hoping you'd found a new source of NJ canned tomatoes.