Posted on 12/08/2006 12:14:51 AM PST by BurbankKarl
Green onions suspected of sickening Taco Bell customers in six states have been traced to one of Ventura County's largest vegetable growers, but authorities said Thursday it was too early to blame anyone for the outbreak.
Taco Bell Corp. voluntarily removed green onions from its restaurants Wednesday after discovering that the "vast majority" of at least 58 people who suffered E. coli food poisoning in the last week, mostly in New Jersey and New York, had eaten at a Taco Bell, federal officials said Thursday. No one has died, but 48 people have been hospitalized with kidney failure or other problems caused by the bacteria.
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Here's a hint Ready Pac.
Stop using water that flows through cow dung pastures.
Just a hint.
You didn't read the article. It says that the e-coli is coming from ox nards.
lol!
An ox nard?
Is that different from an ox bunghole?
Perhaps I should stop shopping at Menards.
I haven't eaten green onions whether restaurant or supermarket-bought, since 2003. No big loss, but the spinach contamination bugs me, since we (used to) use a lot of it, both raw and frozen. We're all gonna die, but getting really, really sick from a freaking veggie just ain't worth it, and given the bucks and politics involved in the Mexico connection, I don't exactly have a whole lot of faith in the FDA to come up with either a definitive answer, or a solution.
Why not grow your own? Onions are easy to grow.
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