A rotten choice

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“Here’s your burger/ No tomatoes/ You didn’t ask/ And now you got hosed.”

Perhaps that should be Wendy’s new jingle after its dismaying decision to hold the tomatoes on all sandwiches, unless the customer specifically requests them, because of the rising cost of the fruit (or is it a vegetable?). The company places the blame for the practically un-American decision (really, can you really have a burger without tomatoes?) on the bummer crop caused by Florida’s hurricanes.

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