This is the best summary I could come up with:

Tomatoes are off the menu in India as Burger King becomes the latest fast food chain to be impacted by rising prices of the culinary staple.

(MCD) announced that many of its restaurants across the country would be temporarily removing tomatoes from their burgers, citing quality issues and shortages of supply.

Burger King’s decision comes after India’s central bank raised its inflation forecast for the current financial year to 5.4% from 5.1% earlier, citing the rising prices of certain foods in the world’s most populous nation.

“Going forward, the spike in vegetable prices, led by tomatoes, would exert sizeable upside pressures on the near-term headline inflation trajectory,” it wrote in a statement.

The cost of tomatoes in India has soared by more than 400% in recent months due to crop failures following scorching heat waves and heavy rains, according to farmers and agriculture experts, though prices have moderated somewhat in August.

This summer, the country has been rocked by both unprecedented amounts of rain and blistering heat waves, highlighting how the world’s most populous nation is among the most vulnerable to the effects of the climate crisis.

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Just before I flew out of India after many months of travel I decided to try a whopper, just to see if it was any different than usual.

Let me tell you folks, hands down the best whopper I’ve ever had.

The biggest reason for that was that the tomatoes were actually ripe, and fresh compared to the miserable garbage HJs / BK use at home.

To me a burger without tomato is not a burger at all.

Food inflation is off the charts in India. But there are no protests because religion is the opiate of the masses.

cost of living is so drastically different over there. I think nothing of it if I need to spend $3 (250 rupees) for some tomatoes.