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Onions that were "linked" in e.coli outbreak
yoshmyster
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came from my neck of the woods. Taylor Farms in Salinas a town over from me. So let me think there was issue with spinach and lettuce (I forget if it was Romaine or Ice) few years back. I tell you it's like Mexico with these outbreaks. Also isn't a quinky dink Trump works at McDs and there's an out break of e. coli. It's a frame up I tells youse.
So when you see onions be sure to ask where they came from before buying. And pray they came from Mexico or Walla Walla.
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Seeing the LONG list of recalls each and every day makes me want to start shopping out in the back woods!
I once worked at McDonalds as a grill cook during my senior year of high school. It was the year that the Quarter Pounder first came out. The meat patties were frozen and had to be slammed on a hard surface to separate them. They used only dehydrated onions on all of the burgers back then. Nothing fresh except for the shredded lettuce that was in bags for just the Big Macs. Back then, the quality was much better or perhaps getting the benefit of FREE food for employees and being a starving teenager made it that way.
I can honestly say that I have not sampled anything made at a McD's in nearly a decade.
What gets me about the outbreak is one of the questions when I took my last Serv Safe course.
The question was “Which way was better to buy vegetables precut or cut them yourself?
I answered cut them yourself, that way you can wash them more throughly and observe any possible issues with the vegetables.
I got the answer wrong because Serv Safe said it was better to purchase precut vegetables.
They were wrong.
e. coli is found in feces. The question is, how did feces get in onions? I wonder if there was a Job Jonny for the onion field workers to use.
My wife is serv safe certified . Area manager for school child nutrition program ,ie ,lunchrooms. I have read thru the test booklets for study. Serv safe is counterintuitive a lot of the time .
E. Coli is also responsible for nasty cases of UTI. Get to a doctor if you have any doubt about being infected.
Neal
Of course there was, but it was clear at the other end of the field.
Stop pooping in the onion fields
I think you nailed it mac. Several years there was an e. coli outbreak in spinach. I wonder if those field workers do it on purpose.
In the 70's I was working at a big name canning plant and they had a lot of "temp. works" from the south of the border. I witnessed the temps urinate in the giant vats of vegetables and they got a laugh out of it. Yea the heat itself would kill anything they put in but I can imagine what happens now at so many places.
I've had e.coli. It ain't fun.
What I dislike or LOL at
THe news will say we have a recall for xxx on dates thst was three months at least ago 99% of that product has already been eaten or thrown out
I know it takes time to track and find evendince to do the investigation find the people records reporting sick
And glad they track it down but where is al The on site inspectors
I saw a funny SATIRE Press release that Kamala fired the staffer that sent the onions the the wrong McDonalds.
SW0320 - Cut your own may cause injuries at the work place.
Grasshopper - Your story reminds me of what I was told. I was shown around if I took the position at Dole salad processing plant. In the employee dining there were trays of "salad" of the day for the employees to enjoy. Basically the management takes packages off the line during their shift and use the employees as guinea pigs to see if the did something to the lot. Needless to say I took a pass. I wasn't gonna get in middle of suits Vs. slave situations over "packaged salad".
The thing I'm thinking is maybe they need to change the washing up veg. water more frequently.