Togo's Disappoints

I've been a fan of the Togo's #9 since sometime in the mid-80s. Sadly, my fandom ended today. I was home at lunchtime, and had a craving, so I walked over to the local Togo's (passing up the recently opened Quiznos and lacking in atmosphere/manners Subway).

There was a sign taped to the door - "we're sorry, for health reasons, we will not be using tomatoes." Two problems here:

1. Tomatoes add flavor; I learned first hand today that the #9 is not so great without tomatoes. That might be because the sandwich barista overcompensated with lettuce though;
   
2. The FDA has said that tomatoes from California are not linked to the Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak
   

So, if Togo's is no longer serving tomatoes, then that means they are either overly paranoid, or they are getting their tomatoes from outside California. I'm going with the latter, and I can't see paying them to import vegetables when we grow perfectly good (and healthy no less) vegetables right here at home in CA.

Sorry Togo's, you're on my boycott list, along with Canada and Noah's Bagels. We had a good run though.

O' Canada

Oh, Canada, neighbor to the north, what the hell were you thinking?

Every once in a while a story catches my eye that's just too amazing for words. The story of Robert Dziekanski was one such story. Robert was a 40 year old man from Poland. Last month, he took his first plane flight, from Poland to Canada, to see his mother who lives in British Columbia.

Somehow, Robert didn't end up connecting with his mother and ended up stuck in the arrivals area, for 10 hours. Robert didn't speak English, and no one there spoke Polish. Robert was upset (not surprisingly really). Eventually the police were called.

Taking a page out of the University of Florida police handbook the RCMP tasered Robert, repeatedly. Robert died. He never got to see his mother. She never got to see her son.

Again, Canada, what the hell were you thinking? Haven't you learned nothing from watching all of the senseless violence that goes on here to your south? I guess you did actually. First, the police said Robert fought them, but as the video demonstrated, he didn't. You learned that from us, right - denial of the facts.

So here's the deal. I was thinking about heading up to BC to see some of the Olympics, but now I'm not going to. Until I see/hear/read about an apology from you to Robert's mother (put it up on YouTube so everyone can see it), I'm going to boycott everything Canadian - Molson, Hockey, etc. If it comes from there, it's not welcome here.