I stopped by my friendly neighborhood bagel shop/pizza place/deli, Pumpernickel’s Bagelry, this morning, and as I stood in front of the register to pay for my bagel, I noticed a hand-written sign hanging from the blackboard menu: “Due to the rising cost of tomatos [sic], we won’t have any!!” The owner, Rob, answered my “shame about the tomatoes” with a “they were crappy [this season] anyway.” And that they were. As DCist reported earlier this month, cutting back on tomatoes is becoming a trend. For more on the tomato shortage, check out this Boston Globe article. All I know is, Pumpernickel’s BLT just won’t be the same.

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