They had a problem with green onions before, which is why I can no longer purchase them loose around here. They’re all pre-washed and bagged.
My girlfriend worked as a migrant fieldhand for a season or so. She said it’s standard practice for the workers to do their business in the fields because the owners don’t always provide accessible facilities and time is money!
I was rather casual about my vegetable washing until I heard that.
I hope so, too. For your own sake.
Maybe it has nothing to do with our procedures and safe guards, which have been adequate up till now. Maybe the* e. coli * are getting “smarter”.
it was just a joke. An old Chevy Chase line from SNL. Sorry for any confusion.
I ate at Taco Bell last night and they were eighty-nine cents here in the Chattanooga, TN area.
Dang… and I thought I was good at quotes. 
It’s such a great line it had me thinking “Okay, vat did I miss?” My bad.
Thank God we have socialized medicine in Canada… I can eat all the Taco Bell tacos I want without worrying about having to break the bank. I’m gonna roll the dice and find me some 99 cent tacos! (plus GST)
Gawrsh, I hope ralphie will come back in here and tell us how much we should pay for our green onions so we’re not, you know, ‘asking for it’.
I wonder…considering his problems with the “shift” key, do you think his nick is supposed to be ralph!@$c?
-Joe
well, he’s no ** ralph 14**, that’s all I’m sayin’
A friend of mine used to refer to TB bean burritos as “gut bombs”. Que apropos!(huh?)
Did I get the parenthesis right?
There was a story on news tonight that TB was pulling green onions off of all of their food nationwide due to the potential of it being contaminated by E-Coli.
Congratuations.
I used to eat at Taco Bell a lot, and I still manage it twice a month or so. Every time I get a little stomach unpleasantness. I accept that as part of eating cheap.
E-Coli? Not so much.
-Joe
I’m pretty sure you have a greater chance of being struck by lightning than you do of getting Ecoli poisoning from Taco Bell.
But…by buying a $.99 taco I was just begging for it. I mean, I was practically spread-eagled on a table with a arrow pointed toward my mouth labeled, “Insert EColi here”.
-Joe
And an arrow pointed at your anus: “Exit e-coli here, at high velocity.”
Okay, color me stupid, but what difference does it make if they’re pre-washed and bagged? The recent e.coli outbreak in spinach involved pre-washed and bagged salad…
Interesting news:
From the New York Times: (registration required)
“As the list of those sickened by a dangerous strain of E. coli called 0157:H7 grew, the focus of the investigation turned to Boskovich Farms in Oxnard, Calif., which grows the green onions, also known as scallions, for the supplier of Taco Bell.”
A little later on in the same article:
“Boskovich, which began growing green onions on its farms 40 years ago, provided the green onions that led to a hepatitis outbreak that began at a Chi-Chi’s restaurant in Pennsylvania in 2003.”
When did you get a look at my tattoos?
-Joe
If we want to remain fair in our probability assessments, we’re going to need to insert a large lightning rod in that anus as well.