How to Attain the Elusive: Blog About It

Oct 17th, 2008

You may recall my diatribe about tomatoes the other day where I bemoaned my inability to locate a decent (read: edible) example of the fruit.

Some Jersey-centric folks (like Preston and Crotchety Old Man ) decided to take the opportunity to sing the praises of their own state’s agricultural brilliance. Yes, I’ve heard that Joizee tomatoes are to die for, and I appreciate your enthusiasm, but we were talking about ME, and your manifestos on the wonders of all that grows in the Garden State, while enlightening, did not bring me closer to my own personal goals.

Enter 6 Degrees of Sacramento. This savior offered to risk her life meeting another blogger, a potential internet wacko, in person, to share her own bounty of organic home-grown goodies from the garden gods. This brave soul brought not one, not two, but FIFTY-SEVEN (ok, not fifty-seven, it was more like maybe sixteen, but I love her like it was fifty-seven) tomatoes. God bless her and the tomato-vine she rode in on.

I sliced up one of those bad boys for my sandwich, inhalating the rest of what was on the cutting board.

Oh yeah…… Succulent and Slurpalicious! And I can’t remember the last time I SMELLED a tomato. They smell so….. RED!

I believe I said something about giving up my kingdom for a passable tomato, so 6 Degress will be picking up the keys tomorrow. I will have to remember to tell her about that leaky faucet in the dungeon. Actually, I’m kind of glad to be getting rid of it. That whiny slut in the tower can annoy someone else now with her incessant someday-my-prince-will-come litany. She drove me up the castle wall, so good riddance, I say.

So now that my lifetime issues with tomatoes have been resolved, I’d like to find some new food-related thing to worry about. For example, I saw this in the grocery store the other day. WTF?!?!?

Is this something Joe the Plumber would eat?

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I would like to throw out a BIG FAT THANK YOU to Em over at Life, Liberty and The Pursuit for bestowing the Kreativ Blogger Award unto Nanny Goats In Panties.Nanny Goats is honored and flattered and a few other cool adjectives. I’m putting this at the top of my trophy case.

Posted in: awards, food, rants.

http://oikology101.blogspot.com Carrie

I didn’t see a fruit snack shaped like cow dung on that box. Therefore, I would eat them.
Congrats on your award!
http://blissfulblunders.blogspot.com Beth @ Blissful Blunders

You are too damn funny for my bladder control.
Those tomatoes look scrumptious! And I know just what you mean about them smelling RED. They smell SO RED.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to type whilst a purring feline lays atop your keyboard?
I swear to you, I have been working on this comment for FIFTEEN minutes now. Ok, so not really, but you get the idea.
http://muffin53.blogspot.com empress bee (of the high sea)

i am happy you got your tomatoes and your friend was wonderful to send them to you. now as to the tractor sweet treats, yeah, make them cute cause you just can’t get the kids to eat enough sugar no matter how hard you try!
smiles, bee
xxoxoxoxoxoxoxoox
http://robynsonlineworld.blogspot.com RobynLynn Wright

That does look like one fabulous tomato! Bloggers are so nice.
Glad to see you are rid of the slut in the tower ROFL!
http://www.lifejustkeepsgettingweirder.blogspot.com Anna Lefler

In which section of Home Depot did you find those delicious-looking tractor-adjacent morsels? Because I’ve got a powerful hankering for a mess o’ Black & Decker biscuits.
:^) Anna
http://www.mydogumentary.wordpress.com gingela5

I’m pretty sure they make fruit snacks out of any shape these days. And those tomatoes are beautiful–it’s too bad I don’t like tomtatoes. hehe
http://eminpursuit.blogspot.com/ Em

You’re so welcome!! I totally have a soft spot for farm animals – I’m an Aggie, what can I say? Well other than you’re stinkin’ hilarious.
Oh, and the John Deere fruit snacks (hand hesitantly goes up). My boys LOVE them! Right next to the Hot Wheels ones, of course.
Pretty much anything that has an axle.
Em
http://www.hulassecrets.blogspot.com Hula

Ha-I’ve had those fruit snacks and their really good!
http://www.dr-wifey.blogspot.com dr. wifey

ok, i am lusting for tomatoes now!
http://beesmusings.blogspot.com Bee

I’ve been getting tomatoes left and right from my gardening buds since they know how much I love them. I can sympathize with your dilemma and I’m glad they were de-lish!
http://www.hedlin.com/blog Priscilla

My kid would totally be all over the john deere things.
AS for tomato — I do ketchup?! MY mom digs totmato though
http://www.AprilsLittleFamily.blogspot.com MommyNamedApril

OH, fresh home grown tomatoes are FAAAAABULOUS. Mmmmmm.
http://theladybugfarm.blogspot.com Mindy

I LOVE your blog’s name! That is so great!! I was laughing about that alone, then went on to read some of your posts and laughed some more!! It’s nice to ‘meet’ you. I look forward to looking on in you…
http://withlovesincerely.blogspot.com Maki

Tomatoes are my favorite! I eat them like apples since I was baby (well toddler..). My hubs is from Garden State and all his family chant that there is nothing better than Jersey Tomatoes and Corns…
You blog is so funny and I’m glad that we found each other through SITS!!!
http://jilljillbobill.blogspot.com jill

Okay, so we are on for Sunday night? I need to know who I can make any and all excuses to. Just kidding I really will if you will. Then later, I will show you mine if you will show me yours. When we get skinny and toned. God, please take me home Sun afternoon….amen
http://nikkicrumpet.blogspot.com Nikkicrumpet

Not only do you deserve a prize for being #168 …but you deserve one for making me bust a gut laughing at your funny funny posts! You crack me up and I really appreciate it. I’d send you said deserved prize…but I see you have tomatos…good enough
http://witsbitch.blogspot.com chat blanc

now dems some reals maters!
btw, nothing says yummy treat as much as “Runs like a Deere”
http://thesecretisinthesauce.blogspot.com SITS Girls

Girl, you are hysterical.
If you find that post about #254 winning a prize, let me know. I am sure it’s out there somewhere.
Tiffany
http://johndeeremom.blogspot.com John Deere Mom

I don’t know if Joe the Plumber eats them but Cole the 5 year old tractor-loving kid sure does!
http://freesoupwithpurchase.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/watchmen-trailer- Munch

I was wondering when you were going to show us your big tomatoes! Finally! Hubba, hubba! I’ve got my new desktop background all set now!
And I have never seen those fruit snacks, but then again I haven’t been to a grocery store in 17 years. But they are filling me with questions! Is the purple one a pig or a dog? Why not, you know, the deer logo? And a barn and the sun? John Deere only makes three vehicles that they have to use a celestial body as a fruit snack? Do they even have a copyright to that? Very suspicious….
http://6degreessacramento.wordpress.com/ 6 Degrees

My dearest wish is a deep-red vintage Alfa Romeo Spider. Perhaps one of your readers has one sitting around????
Thanks for the keys. Is there one for the iron maiden in the leaky dungeon? I’m planning to put the whiny slut there.
http://wordsofwisdomfromasmartmouthbroad.blogspot.com Smart Mouth Broad

I am jealous beyond words. Even the farmers’ markets around these parts are cheating and offering those crunchy, mealy balls o crap. UGH! Enjoy! And congrats on your award. I can think of no one more worthy!
http://phhhst.blogspot.com/ phhhst

There’s nothin like a vine ripened tomato. Except, of course, tractor inspired fruit flavored snacks.
http://www.getthebean.com Meaghan

Thanks for entering to get free coffee I really appreciate the support! You have tons of entries now…odds looking good And you are one of our first myspace friends:)
I just had two buttons made one for the coffee blog and one for the GTB Fights cancer blog(www.gtbfightscancer.blogspot.com). If you want 6 extra entries for the free coffee add them to your blog Just make sure you leave a comment saying you did!
-Meg
http://www.getthebean.com
http://www.getthebean.blogspot.com
http://tabithablue.blogspot.com Tabitha Blue

Haha, yes, I had to shower after eating the chocolate cake myself.
I could almost smell the REDness of the tomato in the photos, you captured it well, my friend!
Um, and on the box of snacks… what is that purple thing? It resembles a Rhino, and last I checked Rhino’s don’t usually live on farms… maybe that’s their way of showing what kids will look like if we keep feeding them more and more sugar.
Have a happy weekend!
~Tabitha~
http://www.magicksandwich.org kathcom

I can’t remember the last time I had anything other than the bland, white-fleshed excuse for a tomato that’s been engineered to stay fresh on a truck cross-country but also to taste like a rock without the dirt flavoring.
I’m going to have to hunt one down, an heirloom tomato. It’s the same as the ones from my great-grandpa’s garden but the fancy name will cost me plenty. It will be worth it.
Then I’ll chase it down with some John Deere fruit snacks. It’s what Joe would do.
http://ettarose-edgeofsanity.blogspot.com ettarose

You know what is even better than red tomatoes? Big fat yellow tomatoes. Those are so awesome. Too bad mine are all gone.The Deere treats at least are fat free. Never seen em though.
http://fatcatcrochet.blogspot.com Linda

Those Do look amazing! Enjoy!
http://www.penniesinmypocket.net Melody from ~Pennies In My Poc

Those tomatoes are SO blogable! I can totally smell their redness!! LOL You are such a crack up! This is making me want to grow my own. How do I get rid of a black thumb???
Congrats on the award!
~melody~
http://www.blackbettysbizkits.wordpress.com black betty

gurrrl….rotel…yum
1 big block of velveeta
2 cans of mild or hot rotel tomatoes (drain one can)
1 lb. cooked ground beef
mix all ingredients in a crockpot. serve when melted. viola!!!
that picture of the tomatoes is making me REEEAAAAAAL hongry…
http://debbiedoesdrivel.blogspot.com/ Deb

OMG those tomatoes look so good! It has been more than 10 years since I’ve found tomatoes that look/taste like that! I have tomato envy.
As for the John Deere fruit things, I bet they taste like the plastic tomatoes
I’ve been eating lately.
http://raisingiowans.blogspot.com Minyo

That is one delicious looking tomato! Can almost taste it!
My daughters love the John Deere snacks, mostly because we own an old John Deere and my husband collects toy tractors. Frankly, I was shocked to see them in the store for the first time (I bought them immediately).
http://bissell-kids.blogspot.com Nicole

Now I really would like some homegrown tomatoes, too.
Congrats to your award.
http://www.quilaotriplets.blogspot.com Casey

Came over from SITS. Congrats on being a saucy blog!
http://spunkyteddygraham.blogspot.com Stephanie

Congrats on your saucy status this week.. luckily I already had you on my side bar, so I am SO ahead of the trend…
http://www.jollieprimitives.com Linda Lewis

I gots them cosmic down home homegrown heirloom tomato red bluuuues, momma.
yum.
http://scrapchatter.blogspot.com Marjorie

So glad you have experienced the flavor of a perfect tomato…
http://scrapchatter.blogspot.com Marjorie

Hey, I hadn’t realized earlier but Congratulations on being saucy this week… prepare for even more visitors friend! I loved it – hope you do too!!
Make it a great day!
http://ebogie.blogspot.com Elizabeth

The opposite of you, I cannot stand tomatoes, but I do sympathize with the need for something one loves. I hate it when I get bad cucumbers or melons.
http://perspectivepowers.blogspot.com/ Amanda in Ga

Congrats on being Saucy! Nothing like good tomatoes!
http://eat-in-pack-up.blogspot.com Tiffany

Love the tomatoes. We really do need a scratch and sniff computer screen!
And yeah, Joe the Plumber would probably eat that cereal.
http://www.stolenbonbon.blogspot.com Marla @ Stolen Bon Bons

Just wanted to stop by and say CONGRATS on being a SAUCY blog this week!
My kids love the John Deere fruit snacks. Then again their grandpa owns several big John Deere tractors they love to ride so that may have something to do with it.
http://hyggedigter.blogspot.com Poetikat

Your blog title is hilarious (love those goats!) Your wit is caustic and I love it!
Tomatoes? I doubt there’s a day goes by that I don’t consume them in some form. I love cherry toms, beefsteaks (on white with mayo, pepper and lettuce – toasted). You have a Saint there in the blogger who brought you such bounty.
Kat
http://www.homeschoolinginlouisiana.blogspot.com Queen Bee

Congrats on being saucy this week!
Much Love
Anissa
http://tabithablue.blogspot.com Tabitha Blue

Congrats on being saucy this week!!!! We all knew you were… now we can really call you that name to your face (er, blog)!!!!
~Tabitha~
http://ashleyunscripted.blogspot.com Ashley. Unscripted…

Sadly, my child loves the “tractor nacks” as he calls them. What can I say? It was a weak moment, there were no Diego nacks to be found. I grabbed the first gummy, fruity, candy concoction I could find. Now he lurves his tractor nacks.
http://honeywine.wordpress.com honeywine

My sister picked up some of those (Will is a huge John Deere fan), but they taste nasty to me (but I don’t really do gummy candy). The tomatoes sound divine!
http://www.notyourtypicalmama.blogspot.com SuZ

I love it… I love everything about this entry.
http://www.countrygirloriginals.blogspot.com margaret

Your blog is so funny. I am bookmarking it. Those tomatoes look great. Our vines have stopped producing for the year, and I miss them. I won’t buy a tomatoe at the store.
My son just got some of those fruit snacks. He thought they were great.
http://froggity.blogspot.com KDLOST

Congrats, saucy nanny goat!
http://ateachableheart.blogspot.com Shanda

I believe Joe the Plumber probably has a hankerin for tomatoes just like those! Spread the wealth!
Congrats on being saucy!
http://emptynesters3.blogspot.com keeperoftheskieswife

Congrats on being Saucy!!!
http://mimitchells.blogspot.com Jenm buried with children

that tomato looks awesome and that cereal is totally WTF!
http://www.lifejustkeepsgettingweirder.blogspot.com Anna Lefler

Funny AND saucy! I can’t take it! My face hurts!
:^) Anna
http://www.colbymarshall.blogspot.com colbymarshall

Hiss! Boo!! I still say a tomato is a veggie! I don’t care if the experts say its not!
http://tattooedminivanmom.blogspot.com/ tattooedminivanmom

Tomatoes, Tractors and whiny sluts in towers ROCK!
http://www.obyandtarabennett.blogspot.com/ TMI

Congrats on being saucy and ‘kreativ’. So posh!
http://www.mommystakeonthings.blogspot.com lori

okay, i could practically smell the tomatoes through my computer screen!
yummo!
ps, found you on sits…
http://whattheysay57.blogspot.com/ Kelly57

LOL! I have to know what store you found these fruit snack at – my JD hubby may just need a box in his stocking this year! HA!
http://shannonsnuthouse.blogspot.com Shannon

Mmmm… I love tomatoes. My hubby can’t stand them… but he does eat things made with tomatoes (salsa, ketchup, spaghetti sauce, etc)
He says its not the same thing as eating “regular” tomato.
I say he is weird.
http://blickykitty.blogspot.com/ Blicky Kitty

No only Joe Sixpack eats those. Joe the Plumber has his servants buy gold ones and he uses them to pelt at tax collectors.
I LOVE LOVIE LOVE your blog.
http://popeterry666.blogspot.com Alex L.

So it tastes like tractors or what? I cant imagine how excited the farmers must be at that cereal.
http://www.ourdandelionwishes.com Mamarazzi

CUTE blog…GREAT post! so funny.
i followed you over here from Stephanie’s (Spunkyteddygraham)blog. i like to pop in and see who my bloggy firneds are reading. i am glad i did!
http://cabbages-n-kings.blogspot.com Jenn Thorson

John Deere cereal? Seriously? What does it taste like– diesel, sweat and corn husks?
Why is it listed as being fruit flavored? Who thinks of corn and grain fields and thinks “fruity goodness”?
http://www.AprilsLittleFamily.blogspot.com MommyNamedApril

congrats on being saucy!!!
http://princessesandpickles.blogspot.com MammaDucky

Somehow those fruitsnacks must have gotten lost on their way to the store. I’m sure they sell like hotcakes in the midwest.
I’m super jealous of your tomatoes. They have “creole tomatos” here, and while I’m sure they’re fabulous to the people here, for me, not so much.
P.S. you’re lucky you don’t know where Thibodaux is. It’s in south Louisiana. Bayous and the like. I’m a Southern California girl stuck here…scary.
http://www.muse-swings.blogspot.com Cynthia

The search for a tomato that tastes like a tomato with a happy ending! Most of them smell- and taste like anemic tunafish. And since when is off pink an acceptable shade.
Another problem with the love apple: I haven’t been able to spell tomatoe or potato since Dan Quail corrected that kid in school. So is it tomato and potatoe or tomatoe and potato and how much longer must I bear this?
I stopped by from Blicky Kitty’s – great blog and congrats on your award!
http://www.myfirstkitchen.net My First Kitchen

You, my dear, are quite humorous. I found you on SITS (congrats on being saucy!), and I can’t wait to come back. And I’m about to eat my last tomato of the season. Wow, I’m sad.
http://www.tiggyblog.com Tiggy

Fruit flavoured tractors? Oh, of course. What a blindingly obvious gap in the market that was.
What next? Gummi Trucks? Frosted Honey-coated Shipping Containers?
http://onewiredwoman.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2008-01-01T00%3A0 Jill

I’m salivating over those yummy tomatoes!! Thanks for stopping by my blog!! Your blog is great… I’ll be back for sure!! ~Jill
http://starcasm.net Starcasm

Mmmm, John Deere fruit snacks.
I’m personally looking for AIG and Wachovia snacks. I hear that they’re cheap now.
And of course, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac corn chips.
I like empty calories with my empty financing.
http://myaussieantics.blogspot.com/ dee from downunder

I love “real” tomatoes, nothing better.
And those John Dere candies are cute.
Congrats on your saucy blog, too, came over from SITS
Drew

Those tomatoes look like heirloom Brandywines. If so, you’ve gotten the best tasting tomato there is in my (not so) humble opinion. I tried to grow some this year but my garden was a complete waste. I didn’t even get much zucchini! Who can’t grow zucchini? Apparently me. I’m going to have to “fix” that soil this year…
Drew