You Say Tomato...

Promoters of CashTomato.com couldn't even give tomatoes away today. The video website promoter's original plan was to hide tomatoes with various denominations of U.S. currency attached to the fruit in San Francisco's Dolores Park.


But weather and ill-planning thwarted their fruity fun. Someone forgot to get an event permit to use the park. The joy-thwarting police were unwilling to turn a blind eye.

Instead, they hid 500 tomatoes on the streets around Dolores Park. When that wore them down, they just tried to give the remaining 500 well-dollared tomatoes away. The homeless, residents and passers-by took the money and ran, leaving the naked 'maters to fend for themselves in the rain.

Don't cry for that lonesome fruit, people. There's pico de gallo in Fogtown tonight. People couldn't stand to see the beautiful fruit go to waste. The heroes of this story picked up the jilted love apples.

As I always say, when promoters hand you tomatoes, make gazpacho. Or better yet, make a video of how to make gazpacho and post it to CashTomato's website. They need the publicity.

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