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Ho, ho, ho -- don't eat raw cookie dough: CDC
abc ^ | 12/08/2018 | Eric M. Strauss

Posted on 12/08/2018 10:04:54 PM PST by BenLurkin

The holidays are upon us and for many that means family time in the kitchen preparing delicious baked goods and maybe even licking the spoon before the cookies go into the oven. So the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) put out a warning this week to, “Say No To Raw Dough!”

Dr. Todd Ellerin -- who admits he doesn’t bake -- said it’s the raw flour and uncooked eggs that can make us sick.

Ellerin warned that “complications of this type of E. coli can include bloody diarrhea, need for prolonged hospitalization, and kidney failure, breakdown of red blood cells that carry oxygen.”

CDC says Salmonella symptoms typically include diarrhea, fever, and abdominal cramps. In most cases, illness lasts 4 to 7 days and people recover without antibiotics. Illness from Salmonella bacteria can be serious and is more dangerous for older adults, infants, and people with weakened immune systems.

Dr. Ellerin wants people to have a nice holiday season and doesn’t want to ruin Kim’s fun in the kitchen, but has a wish for one and all, “We are used to hearing Ho Ho Ho Merry Christmas, but in the kitchen as we are preparing to make cookies, it should be Ho Ho Ho, please avoid the raw dough!”

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Food
KEYWORDS: cookie; cookiedough; cookies
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1 posted on 12/08/2018 10:04:54 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

I had never till recently heard of flour being a problem. Maybe it became a problem due to sloppy kitchen habits, getting stuff in the flour bag or canister that shouldn’t be there. I never understood hooking all the spoons and measures together on a ring, as neat as it looks. I keep mine separate.


2 posted on 12/08/2018 10:11:50 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: BenLurkin

‘mmmm bloody diarrhea sure brings in the Christmas Spirit there...


3 posted on 12/08/2018 10:16:11 PM PST by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
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To: BenLurkin

Your Tax Dollars At Work.

Providing “employment” to the unemployable. As usual.


4 posted on 12/08/2018 10:31:30 PM PST by JennysCool
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To: BenLurkin

I am going to eat raw cookie dough and hamburgers and fries, all the time, forever...


5 posted on 12/08/2018 10:32:28 PM PST by cherry (official troll)
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To: BenLurkin

When I was a kid I split my chin open at Christmas time. Mom called the doc and she was baking cookies but her boys were eating the dough as fast as she could make it.

I can’t believe I’ve lived this long.

I’ve eaten raw cookie dough for over 60 years.
Drink from the water hose
Eat sandwiches in my unrefrigerated lunch in the summer
Go barefoot much of the summer
Take walks in the rain
etc.

I’m starting to feel like my Dad when he said he had seen enough change for one lifetime.


6 posted on 12/08/2018 10:34:36 PM PST by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchaged our dreams for survival. We just ha va few days that don't suck.)
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To: BenLurkin
Ellerin warned that “complications of this type of E. coli can include bloody diarrhea, need for prolonged hospitalization, and kidney failure, breakdown of red blood cells that carry oxygen.”

The sky's falling, the sky's falling! For the past five thousand years...

7 posted on 12/08/2018 11:03:37 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: BenLurkin

If I ever get my damned book published, it will explain how & why people are more susceptible than ever to e-coli and other organisms. It will also explain why most people won’t do anything about it or, for that matter, care about consequences they don’t suffer at the time.

It’s not rocket science, and it serves one purpose that they’re taking advantage of fully.

Oh, but gluten-free, paleo, vegan, low cholesterol & exercise are panacea to health. /s

The latest life expectancy stats say otherwise...


8 posted on 12/08/2018 11:07:10 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: BenLurkin
Are they also going to prohibit letting kids lick the beaters because of one kid who wouldn't wait for it to stop?


9 posted on 12/08/2018 11:08:00 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Leave the job, leave the clearance. It should be the same rule for the Swamp as for everyone else.)
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To: cherry

#MeToo....well cookie dough, anyways.


10 posted on 12/08/2018 11:08:44 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (Cocked, locked and ready to ROCK!)
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To: logi_cal869

“The latest life expectancy stats say otherwise...”

Too many French fries and cokes.


11 posted on 12/08/2018 11:12:23 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: higgmeister

I do wish pasteurized eggs were available, though. I read a lot of recipes, and apparently in the U.K., the eggs can be kept on the counter, because they’re pasteurized. But I hear people who have chickens often keep theirs out, too. Every time I buy farm eggs, they have poop all over tgem. But then I read, don’t wash them, or you’ll wash off the natural protective coating. In other wirds, who knows?


12 posted on 12/08/2018 11:13:06 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: BenLurkin

Geesh, we’ve been eating this all of my life!!!


13 posted on 12/08/2018 11:20:17 PM PST by hsmomx3
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To: BenLurkin

Parent explaining to children as to why to avoid eating raw flour:

“Do you think the [*]s who make that uncooked flour wash their hands after going to the bathroom?”

* Name of any ethnic group.


14 posted on 12/08/2018 11:33:50 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: KarlInOhio

That is hilarious.

I did it as a kid and I was going to let some kids I was babysitting for, lick the beaters years later. They were clueless. LOL


15 posted on 12/09/2018 12:25:07 AM PST by blondiegoodbadugly
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To: BenLurkin

Screw the CDC. Bunch of unemployable idiots


16 posted on 12/09/2018 12:28:02 AM PST by albie
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To: BenLurkin

Unabated cell phone use in cookie dough factories and other food processing centers is a problem.
The germs are not what they use to be or where they use to be.


17 posted on 12/09/2018 12:37:20 AM PST by Scram1
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To: BenLurkin

I always eat raw cookie dough...

55 years and nothing but delicious memories...


18 posted on 12/09/2018 12:42:32 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZGw2M)
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To: BenLurkin

“... don’t eat the yellow snoe”.


19 posted on 12/09/2018 12:49:32 AM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: BenLurkin

Grinch’s!

Exactly!


20 posted on 12/09/2018 1:10:36 AM PST by tallyhoe
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