/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>11502985
Sorry I only eat romaine I'm not changing. The cdc is retarded. E.Coli is not even a threat to 80% of the general population its a normal part of the natural fauna of the microbiome and is ubiquitous and perfectly safe in small enough colonies

hell yes, incoming romaine price drop.

>>11503012
it's probably an EHEC strain, quite dangerous

>>11503012
byebye

Wow, you posted this thread like 10 seconds before they brought it up on the tv news. I should probably call my restaurant and tell them to 86 the caesar, but I'll wait till I go in tomorrow to bring it up.

>>11502985
I prefer Iceburg anyways... I like romaine on a big sub samich tho.

Just wash it bro, and don't eat the stem.

>>11503016
900 iq

Yeaaaaaaaah, I don’t give a fuck

>>11502985
Didn't the NYT write an article about gay men and anal lingud and how it's a progressive and good thing to eat ass?

>>11503012

>(((CDC)))

>>11502985
Chicory masterrace confirmed

Where were you when Romaine fell?

>>11503012

This. I'd rather get e.coli and salmonella, which are harmless to young people, than to risk getting cancer by eating meats.

This is nothing but carnist propaganda.

>>11502985
what if I grow my own damn lettice
ain't no salmons or ecolis in my garden

Why is it that when there's something wrong with lettuce it's always romaine and always e coki??

When I was a kid there was a grape boycott, I didn't really know too much about farm workers or organized labor, I was too young for that. I just heard you weren't supposed to eat grapes. So I developed this lifelong attitude about fresh grapes that makes no sense at all.

I don't mind the taste, and I love wine, I just have this deep seated sense that it's wrong to buy and enjoy table grapes. I recognize that it is fully nonsensical, I don't avoid them when they're right in front of me, it's just a thing that was embedded in my subconscious early on, and I don't actually care enough about grapes to try to "fix" my "condition".

Not long ago I was in an agricultural region of France, where the politics of grapes are totally different, and the actual grapes in markets are amazing and delicious. Did I buy any? No, because I was on vacation and it would have entailed a weird psychological battle with myself that would not have been worth the effort. I did drink the wine, and eat all the other produce. Just no fresh table grapes.

I wonder if a bunch of kids are going to grow up with something like that, but for romaine. This is the second time in a year, that's an eternity if you're a small child.

Thank god I only buy organic lettuce.

>>11502985
2nd time in 3 months

>What is really going on?

Real question. Is anyone really going to throw out their lettuce from the fridge in response to this news? How embarrassing that would be!

>>11503269
The cultured migrants don't wash their hands.

>>11503310
Yes. And the grocery stores will do the same if they haven't done so already as they should have because it's the law.

>>11503313
lol, such a good goy

>>11502985
>30 people getting sick with with e coli is something to be concerned about
I just ate romaine 4 days ago. I guess we're gonna see.

>>11503283
First time around was traced back to a carnist agribusiness in the same area as the romaine farms (almost all romaine sold in this country comes from one small area which is highly susceptible to carnist environmental pollution)

Bit premature to blame the carnists for this one, but if there turns out to be a link, it won't take anyone by surprise

>>11503077
Kek, underrated

oh well, at least my bois arguala, green leaf, and spinach are still good.

>>11502985
just ate a big bag of romaine 1/2 hour before the warning. anything I can do to survive this or is it already too late?

>>11503355
Just buckle in and take the ride.

>>11503355
you might get the shits and stomach cramps. stay hydrated.

>>11502985
>she doesn't wash her lettuce. tee hee hee

>>11503370
i'm pretty sure I'm gonna die bros. I just drank a glass of balsamic vinegar to kill the ecoli but I don't think it worked because I feel really sick now.

>>11503408
It's probably the vinegar. You would have explosive diarrhea if you ate the recalled lettuce.
Take some vitamins.

Daymond Dropper doesn't eat lettuce. He calls it "crunchy water".

>>11503064

Proof? Id like to justify my ass eating proclivities

>>11502985
I just ate a chipotle burrito with romaine lettuce.
How fucked am I?

>>11503419
well, you're already fucked in the head because lettuce serves absolutely no purpose in a burrito.

>>11503041
>I prefer Iceburg anyways

>>11503423
And he had to ASK for the LETTUCE like a fucking RETARD

are you seriously expecting me to take an article seriously, that refers to lettuce as "leafy greens"?

>tfw ate lettuce today and yesterday and have to wait 3-4 days to see if I'm fucked or not

>>11503334
Lets not kid ourselves.
Of course it's because of the destructive carnist agriculture and of course they will never tell anyone that.

>>11503280
Organic means it's more likely to carry Ecoli as they can't nuke it with chems.

>>11503408
I ate it too. Statistically, millions of people eat lettuce a day. The last outbreak has 216 reported cases and this one has 32. Worrying is completely unnecessary but if you get a fever and the shits, you know what it is and should go to the hospital.

Lettuce is 95% water zero nutrition absolute shit veg.

>Eat your veggies they said.
>It's good for you they said.

>>11503489
>American anon
>insurance
Pick uno

>>11503446
I dont like that it feels like Im eating a piece of celery stalk when someone uses whole romaine leaves
Iceburg is clearly better

dude I was going to have a salad tonight now I've gotta stay fat
thanks again, BIG AGRI

Is red leaf the same as romaine?

What the fuck I just ordered 400 dollars worth of Romain lettuce for my sandwich shop. Ah fuck.

Most ecoli outbreaks are usually caused by one crappy farm who's !managers are either ruthless or incompetent.

I ATE ROMAINE LETTUCE TODAY
FUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCKKKKKKKK

>Never have to worry because I never have lettuce on my anything.
>Have used the superior avocado for years.

>>11503536
stay calm. Do you have your ecoli brain needle? Follow the instructions.

>>11503494
>shit on lettuce
>that means lettuce is bad

>>11503625
No.
Lettuce is bad because it wrecked my car.

>>11502985
Food safety manager here, just told all departments to toss any and all romaine. no chances here

I JUST HAD LETTUCE LIKE AN HOUR AGO

HOW FUCKED AM I?

or you could try actUALLY WASHING YOUR PRODUCE

>>11503664
Statistically it's like a 0.01% chance of getting sick.

>>11503669
Except that we’ve already covered this, but thanks for playing.

>>11503675
I have really shitty luck.

FUCK

>>11503283
Lettuce and other low-ground grown leafy greens are just particularly prone to contamination that gets into the the layers and crevasses of the plant near the soil.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/04/26/why-e-coli-keeps-getting-into-our-lettuce/
>A more recent analysis of outbreak data from 2013 concluded that “vegetable row crops” — lettuces plus broccoli, asparagus, celery and some other vegetables — account for 42 percent of E. coli infections. In the past four months, E. coli infections linked to leafy greens in Canada and the United States have caused 151 illnesses and two deaths.

>“Leafy greens continue to be a problem, and we’ve looked at leafy greens and fresh produce with concern,” said Robert Tauxe, the director of the CDC division that responds to foodborne illness outbreaks. “Back 15 to 20 years ago, there was a huge concern in food safety around foods of animal origin. ... But beginning about 10 years ago, the produce side has become more and more prominent.”

>Contamination can occur on the farm when birds make frequent flights overhead or low-lying fields flood with contaminated water. E. coli can also be spread by farmworkers who don’t wash their hands or via farm equipment that has manure on it.

>While packers frequently rinse lettuce with a chlorine wash to kill pathogens, studies have shown those sprays are only partly effective. The same is true of washing fruits and vegetables at home, Tauxe said, because pathogens “cling” to the surface of produce and can even enter the inside of a leaf or fruit after they've been cut

>>11503493
That just iceberg. Romaine has 4-6X as much vitamins A, K and folate along with vitamin C, calcium, phosphorus and potassium.
https://www.livestrong.com/article/408131-nutritional-value-of-romaine-vs-iceberg-lettuce/

And even 2 cups of Iceberg will give you 20-30% of your RDA of Vitamins A & K.
https://www.livestrong.com/article/420531-does-iceburg-lettuce-have-any-nutritional-value/

>>11503480
We shouldn't rush to judgment here. What if there is another industry that frequently discharges tens of millions of gallons of untreated fecal runoff into sensitive food producing areas? Someone could be keeping thousands of animals in fetid unsanitary pits, using indiscriminate application of antibiotics to save money, for reasons totally unrelated to carnism.

Until all the facts are in, it's too soon to blame carnism.

>>11503738
So, it's either carnists, or the next likely culprit.
That wily India.

>>11503835
Never forget that Spanish treachery killed 260 of our men. If it's not carnism it's King Felipe and his saboteurs

Florida here, had two leaves before work and had to leave early before I shat myself.

>>11502985
of all produce, lettuce is the most worthless

>>11502985
Can't you just boil it?

Ah yes, romaine.
The Devil's Lettuce.

Who keeps fucking up the romaine????

Why must the illegal immigrant labor force refuse to wash their hands?
I work in a deli dep at a grocery store and all of the spic produce clerks will literally take a shit and not wash their hands after
No wonder there's doodoo in the lettuce

>>11504096
>i hang around the company toilets while people shit
Umm, I think I like your illegals better than you, perv.

>>11504269
Oh sweetie.

>>11504096
This is probably caused by contaminated fertilizer made from treated sewage sludge
That shit is full of viruses

>>11503722
Damn. There goes my spring salad mixes, chicken salad, and 2 heads of romaine lettuce.

>>11503510
I can't believe you've done this.

>>11503311
Lol. But seriously, is it more susceptible to bacteria or something? And it usually starts at the farms, right? Definitely could be the illegals then.

>>11503499
Unironically just waste most of the plant and take the ends for salads and sandwiches.

>>11503077
Wouldn't romaine not want to be eaten?

>>11505015
This. I also like to tear about an inch off the top because it's usually limp and I don't find that appealing. Also I had some yesterday, so I guess I'm dead.

>>11505045
Depends on where you live I think. Friends bought some at the store when I went with them, and ate some too, but they are/will be fine, I think

>>11503208
I know its seven hours in, but I wanna tell you I appreciate your post.

>>11502985
this is ridiculous. I've never gotten sick eating romaine lettuce. it is a greater alternative to iceburg, that's for sure.

>>11503240
>Not growing your own salmons in your backyard
What a pitiful existence

>been eating garbage for the last month
>kept buying romaine lettuce and then not eating it and just throwing it out
>finally decide to go back to eating healthy
>just bought a bag of romaine earlier today
>make a huge healthy salad and eat almost the entire bag
>an hour later find out it's dangerous
This is just my luck. Goodbye m8s, nice knowing ya

>>11503208
I appreciate your joke, anon

>>11502985
I had lettuce last week, but I forget if it was actually romaine or something else. No problems so far, but we'll see how this goes.

>>11502985
>Cali has highest number of cases
That's what you bitches get for blaming Arizona last time.
>in b4 they blame us again
They will not rest until they kill our agrindustry so Cali can claim more water rights. Freemasons my ass. It's all controlled by clandestine lettuce syndicate ops in cahoots with the CDC.

>>11503016
Based and antifragile

>>11503283
When in doubt, zog

>>11503077

>>11502985
>eating food raw

That's what you get for eating like animals

wow. its almost like someone weakened the legal regulations that are in place to prevent this shit....

>>11503501
No it's not.

>>11508214
It's almost like you think some sinister person would try to Make America China Again.

>>11503482
They can if they use organic chemistry.

Just another reason why spinach is better in every way

>>11508583
>muh Popeye the sailin' man

>>11508583
Spinach has the same issue sometimes. Anything that grows low to the ground and is eaten raw can have contamination problems.

>>11508323
>2050
>China is the new great power, prosperous and innovative, with robust institutions for workplace safety, food safety, etc
>USA a gutted hellhole, 24/7 trid streams of people falling into escalators, reports of foodborne pathogen outbreaks, etc

I just ate some romaine earlier today and I am absolu

My sister threw out the unopened salad we had without me knowing so I fished it out of the can and put it back in the fridge.

But I love romaine! I got this hydroponically grown romaine so it should be fine. Blame the dirty spics picking it without washing their hands.

>>11503355
Take vitamins, clean as much as you can now, drink tons of eater now. If symptoms escalate, go to the hospital.

>>11502985
Vertical farming should eventually be cheaper and cleaner than growing in fields, and help prevent this kind of thing from happening

>>11502985
Iceberg chads win again

>>11503419
Get your affairs in order.

>>11509811
i bet her lips taste like bubblegum, yum yum
more?

>>11509442
seriously me and my brother jack ate lunch earlier for his birthday and i had the chicken caesar with romaine. when the waitress brought out desert and he blew out the candle jack told m

>>11509811
He's not quite passable. B+ for the effort.

>>11509811
Dear lord I hope you don't actually fap to that

>>11509679
I hope so.

Also UPDATE:
https://abc7.com/food/fda-tainted-romaine-lettuce-likely-came-from-ca/4735151/
>LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The investigation into the E. coli outbreak caused by tainted romaine lettuce suggests the produce likely came from California, federal officials said Wednesday.

>Earlier reports had said the tainted lettuce likely came from Arizona. But the majority of romaine lettuce available on store shelves this time of year is grown in California, experts says. Of the 32 cases, 10 were based in California - nine of them in Los Angeles County. The cases of infection with the outbreak strain of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli were reported between Oct. 8 and Oct. 31.

>>11502985
>eating lettuce-based salads instead of god-like spinach-based salads
You deserve it, you fucking heathens.

>>11502985
>lettuce... is not... to eat
I thought everyone knew this already. It's a garbage non-food used to take up space when you're trying to gyp someone out of meat.

>>11503077

>>11503278
Autism is on the rise apparently so yea probably

this is the 3rd or 4th alert I've seen this year, just what the fugg is going on at the farms? mexicans shitting in the fields?

>>11511194
Maybe they're just getting better at noticing these things with no change in actual contamination frequency.

>>11503208
I was in my villa on Cyprus, drinking a cerveza, when Marcus Biggus Antonius Pirellius Dickus Analicus, my most trusted general, my most passionate lover, my wisdom in the sun, my amour under the moon, he came to me, stroked my chest, we embraced and kissed passionately, it lasted for a moment, but lingered for a lifetime, and he whispered softly in my ear "Romain is kill". I said "no..."

I'm extremely paranoid when it comes to contamination and food, refuse to eat at restaurants or shop at big name chain stores, sometimes I don't eat if I don't know the source of every ingredient, and I just got finished snacking on literal half of a romaine lettuce from a local farm I WASN'T LOOKING AT THE NEWS HOW FUCKED AM I

>>11510451
>>11505945
why do u guys post unnecessary ass reaction images to shit that isn't even that funny.

>>11511251
You are already dead.

>>11509848
based candlejack pos

>>11503208
Having a cold celt

literally no green grown anywhere near a cow bred for slaughter is.

Hurry up and kill all of us.

>>11511351
LOL this is a pretty fun mem

>>11503738
>tens of millions of gallons of untreated fecal runoff
You mean organic fertilizer?

>>11503077
top kek