The Tyranny of the Vegetable

"Eat us NOW or we'll go bad . . . very, very bad!"

That phrase occurred to me this afternoon while trying to figure out what to have for lunch.  I realized that I had some fresh tomatoes that "had to be eaten," and I sighed and proceeded to carry out my obligation.

That's the problem with fresh fruit and vegetables.  If they are remotely ripe when you get them, it is a race to the finish line against rot.  I sometimes feel quite overwhelmed at all the things I have to eat to stave off incipient decay!

The tomatoes were delicious, followed by some at-peril plums.  Actually, I suddenly feel quite like a super-heroine, saving fruits and vegetables from death and destruction at a single gulp.  Hadn't thought of it that way before.  Take that, you tyrannical tomato! You would be a fermenting puddle if not for my acts of digestive heroism.