E. coli outbreak in 8 states tied to fresh spinach

CNN ^ | 09/14/2006 | CNN

[patton]

You can replace spinach with young (tender) kudzu leaves, in salad. And you can have all you want for free, in VA.

With older kudzu leaves, cook them exactly as you would spinach.

To grow kudzu, throw a kudzu leaf at the ground, and run like he$$.

[tioga]

Scary. I love spinich salad.

[spectre]

I knew a man who worked in the grocery produce dept. He warned me against sampling the grapes without "washing" them first.

He said the migrants were too lazy to walk to the potty facilities and they pee'd all over the fruit...just for funnzies.

I don't know if it's true or not?!!

sw

[Diddle E. Squat]

"Eeeeeeeee Coli"

[WestVirginiaRebel]

"Well shiver me timbers!"

[randog]

Didn't Chi, Chi's have a big epidemic of hepititis linked to the same sort of thing last year?

Yeah, it ended up being the green onions. I hadn't heard that they went bankrupt, but that's not surprising.

[Number57]

True? Because I have kin down there who love salad and and are besieged by kudzu, but they are prohibited by court order from owning goats or sheep (kidding about that last bit).

[Gabz]

Guess what I was planning on putting in this weekend?????

[patton]

kudzy thread

And the roots can substitute for taters.

BTW, everybody in my house was choking with laughter at that thread.

[Gabz]

.....so I know what's on the veggies and who's on the veggies.

hee hee hee.........

[Shermy]

O157:H7

This is the bad one. I thought it only originates from cows, but this site mentions others.

There may be other "e coli" that are harmful coming from humans??? Some one here will know.

[Gabz]

truble with buying spinach is it seems no matter what you do with it, after a day in the fridge, it turns to mush...

That's because it's not realy all that fresh.........

It's easiy enough to grow, but it's a cool weather crop.......I'm planning on ossing a handful of seeds in the ground this weekend.

[JRochelle]

I always check and see where the food was grown.

I don't buy anything that was grown in Mexico or any Central American countries.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

I catch your drift.

[Jeff Gordon]

Think "no porta potties" in the spinach fields.

Actually most farms do have porta potties on trucks in the fields near the pickers. The problem is the illegals who do the picking do not use them or do not wash their hands after using them.

[doc1019]

Somehow I just know that it is “Bush’s fault”./s

[uncbob]

I guess I am lucky that I am alergic to spinach

[patton]

Kinda tough to wash your hands in a porta-potty. Do what I do - use a spinach leaf.

[GSlob]

'Next year I'm growing a victory garden so I know what's on the veggies and who's on the veggies." - the big signed "thank you" postcard from all the rabbits in the neighborhood should arrive any day now.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

There was a program on one of them Cable channels ( Discovery or NOVA ) a few years back about a outbreak ( not sure what year or city it was ) of a mysterious disease that killed a few people and some got very sick back in the 90s.
The investigators traced it back to one restaurant in the city that bought it's ( I think it was a certain brand of lettuce ) that was grown south of the border in one of those countries.
The investigators went to were the produce was grown and found out that the water that they sprayed on the fresh produce to keep it fresh was contaminated by a broken sewer pipe ( or a outhouse near the water ) that was near the water source were they got the water to spray the produce.