el precio de los tomates

the price of tomatoes -- it's the talk all over the city -- at every single party, dinner, event i went to last week people were talking about tomatoes. i overheard people on the colectivo talking about the price of tomatoes. so what's the deal? the price of tomatoes has reached a ridiculous high -- as much as 20 pesos per kilo in some parts of the city. this is, of course, while the government continues to claim that inflation is at 0%. prices are so high that there's now a boycott of tomatoes (the prices have got to drop if nobody buys the tomatoes and they start to rot, right?) and a friend working at a pizzeria tells me that they've stopped making all the pizzas that have tomato slices (i.e. my favorite la napolitana). so here's to a tomato-less spring...