Yesterday I saw this Tweet from FiveThrityEight:
Here’s what your part of America eats on Thanksgiving. https://t.co/WDpqVXnoSY pic.twitter.com/4drVC50DJ3
— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) November 18, 2018
Today I see this headline in The Washington Post:
Romaine lettuce is not safe to eat, CDC warns U.S. consumers
This is text directly from the article.
The CDC told consumers to throw away any romaine lettuce they may already have purchased. Restaurants should not serve it, stores should not sell it, and people should not buy it, no matter where or when the lettuce was grown. It doesn’t matter if it is chopped, whole head or part of a mix. All romaine should be avoided.
“This advice includes all types or uses of romaine lettuce, such as whole heads of romaine, hearts of romaine, and bags and boxes of precut lettuce and salad mixes that contain romaine, including baby romaine, spring mix, and Caesar salad,” the CDC said. “If you do not know if the lettuce is romaine or whether a salad mix contains romaine, do not eat it and throw it away.”
Yes!!!
Trump’s CDC has banned salad from Thanksgiving dinner.
This means that California Liberals won’t be able to enjoy their favorite Thanksgiving side dish, with vegetarians and vegans hardest hit.
This is a true Thanksgiving miracle.
Make Thanksgiving dinner great again!!!
I don’t get it… I eat all of that on Thanksgiving. Don’t most people?
You eat Salad?
Olives, pickles, and other finger foods count as a “salad”, right?
Mostly as a bacon vinegarette delivery system, but also as a palate cleanser between the fish course and the beef course.
Salad is what food eats! (Partly joking)
I wonder why these bureaucrats get away with such insane statements.
It’s one thing to say that a certain batch of lettuce from a certain supplier is known to be tainted. But it is an outrageous attack on the livelihood of many to make a totally unsupported blanket claim that all lettuce is dangerous and should be avoided, no matter which part of the country it came from. The people responsible for this should be prosecuted.
I suppose since they don’t have to do actual work for a living — they get paid by our tax money — they don’t give a f*** whether real people are hurt by what they did.
Also, since (from a quick Google search) there are somewhere around 100k E.Coli cases in the USA each year, sending out an alert like this based on the supposed occurrence of 30-ish cases is bizarre. That’s merely a few hours worth of normal occurrence.