Ultra cheap tins of tomatoes

tom.senex · 22 January 2008 at 7:00PM

I know what you grumpy old money savers are going to say.
DON'T. GO AWAY.

You get 12 tins of top notch Napolina tins for 3 quid in ASDA.
Me got 'em even cheaper and filled up wheel barrow full of 'em.

Hope this helps a pasta eater.

THANKS

Save_Me_3 · 22 January 2008 at 7:03PM

Cool! are these the whole ones or the lazy chopped ones?

tom.senex · 22 January 2008 at 7:08PM

hand chopped one by one

moneysavingmumofone · 22 January 2008 at 7:08PM

i was put off napolina tomatoes for life when i opened a tin and the top was covered in disgusting black stuff :eek:

Butlers1982 · 22 January 2008 at 7:27PM

DON'T. GO AWAY

Why put that? People put what they want to on here-its an open forum.

tom.senex · 22 January 2008 at 7:34PM

Butlers1982 wrote: »

Why put that? People put what they want to on here-its an open forum.

It's only a joke and no offense was ever intended to anyone taking part in this open forum - my most sincere and deepest heartfelt apologies if I upset you or anyone else in any way or form.

Butlers1982 · 22 January 2008 at 8:26PM

my most sincere and deepest heartfelt apologies

duly accepted:cool:

fatbelly · 22 January 2008 at 8:30PM

How much are the Tesco value tins?

Grumpy Old Moneysaver...

tom.senex · 22 January 2008 at 8:45PM

Came on you don't really want to eat the value ones. Are you mad?
Let me tell you a little bed time story.
In the south of Italy were most tomatoes are grown there is a river.
This river is the most polluted river in Europe, google it, it's called Sarno River.
Basically this is full of chemicals and other !!!! and it regularly floods the adjacent land where guess what they grow. Yep all the export stuff.
Apparently, the various towns where this river goes through have got the highest cancer rate on the planet!
Am being serious now, I wouldn't want to touch that stuff believe you me, I wouldn't even have it for free.

Any Italians around that can confirm this?

just found a link

http://faculty.ed.umuc.edu/~jmatthew/naples/sarno.html

italiastar · 22 January 2008 at 9:01PM

No idea - I've seen fields of unripe tomatoes in the north of Italy, which a few days later are red and ripe - apparently they spray them with a chemical to ripen them. A trip to the local canning factory, where all these tomatoes turn up reveals that they can for many diffrent brands including UK ones - I can't confirm whether diffrent tomatoes go into diffrent brand's cans, but I can say that they come out of the same canning plant - they do fruit too. The locals won't touch them, even the ones that fall off the lorries at the side of the road, but then they only eat home grown.

Here's a link about the river - http://faculty.ed.umuc.edu/~jmatthew/naples/sarno.html

Lotus-eater · 22 January 2008 at 10:18PM

So which canned tomatoes are ok to eat ?? How do you know which ones are grown where

Ultra cheap tins of tomatoes

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