PSA: Do not eat and throw away all of your romaine lettuce. (1 Viewer)

[Da Guru]

In all shapes and forms.

By Joel Achenbach and

November 20 at 2:51 PM

Romaine lettuce is unsafe to eat in any form, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday in a broad alert in response to a new outbreak of illnesses caused by a particularly dangerous type of E. coli contamination.

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.

The CDC alert, issued just two days before Americans sit down for their Thanksgiving dinners, reported that 32 people in 11 states have become sick from eating contaminated romaine. Of those, 13 have been hospitalized, with one patient suffering from a form of kidney failure.

 

[mr. furley]

if i ate it, how can i then throw it away?

 

[belljr]

THis is a HUGE win for @Bob Sacamano

 

[Bob Sacamano]

They never listen.

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

They never listen.

Now I understand what you tried to say to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now

 

[mr. furley]

They never listen.

Big Lettuce controls media

 

[Nathan R. Jessep]

offical link: https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2018/o157h7-11-18/index.html

 

[EYLive]

Again? Bummer.

 

[Snorkelson]

Never hear of no iceberg recall. 

 

[Dickies]

Of all the people that eat romaine lettuce every day, 32 people over the span of almost a month doesn't sound too extreme.  I always figured about that many people get e.coli from lettuce anyways

 

[matuski]

if i ate it, how can i then throw it away?

Eating it AND throwing away all of it seems like a challenge.

 

[Juxtatarot]

Of all the people that eat romaine lettuce every day, 32 people over the span of almost a month doesn't sound too extreme.  I always figured about that many people get e.coli from lettuce anyways

Driving to the grocery store to buy lettuce might be more dangerous.

 

[Gianni Verscotchie]

PLACE ALL OF YOUR INVESTABLE DOLLARS IN ICEBERG.......NOW

 

[Bob Sacamano]

PLACE ALL OF YOUR INVESTABLE DOLLARS IN ICEBERG.......NOW

You shut your whore mouth

 

[Rhythmdoctor]

Thanks for the PSA. 

 

[MAC_32]

Only crazy people west of the Mississippi eat lettuce Thanksgiving week. 

 

[gianmarco]

Why won't they just lettuce live our lives in peace?

 

[Dickies]

Everybody please romaine calm.

 

[Osaurus]

Never hear of no iceberg recall. 

That’s bc nobody eats it.

 

[McGarnicle]

Don’t listen to them, eat your romaine. That’s how they get you.

 

[JetMaxx]

Everybody please lettuce romaine calm.

Fixed 

 

[Brony]

Why won't they just lettuce live our lives in peace?

'In peas.'

Cmon guy. 

 

[Dedfin]

if i ate it, how can i then throw it away?

By pooping it out!

 

[JetMaxx]

This is just the tip of the iceberg 

 

[Henry Ford]

Everybody please romaine calm.

My heart can’t take it. 

 

[Evilgrin 72]

My heart can’t take it. 

Then you should leaf now. 

P. S.  Lettuce sucks. If I had a nickel for every time I've had to order something with "no lettuce," I would have enough money to buy... some stuff that isn't lettuce. 

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Don’t listen to them, eat your romaine. That’s how they get you.

Eat enough and you dont even need the special glasses to see the aliens.

 

[GregR]

First they came for the romaine, and I did not speak out...

 

[Dickies]

Fixed 

:reported:

 

[James Daulton]

What if we have some week old romaine that's just starting to go but is probably not all bad yet?

 

[The General]

if i ate it, how can i then throw it away?

Through your vomit and explosive diarrhea.

 

[gianmarco]

Everybody please romaine calm.

That salád of puns.

 

[belljr]

They can pry my lettuce from my cold dead colon

 

[Dickies]

They can pay my lettuce from my cold dead colon

Not paying for lettuce in your colon. 

 

[belljr]

Damnit

 

[touche']

Then you should leaf now. 

P. S.  Lettuce sucks. If I had a nickel for every time I've had to order something with "no lettuce," I would have enough money to buy... some stuff that isn't lettuce. 

especially something like a buffalo chicken sandwich where they put some giant romaine leaf.  GTFO.  And self removal causes you to lose half your sauce

im ok with some (a little) finely shredded lettuce on a Big Mac or Italian sub but whole leaf lettuce on a sandwich can go to hell

 

[touche']

Also my wife has been eating pre-packaged romaine based salads for weeks.  So far so good

 

[Tom Servo]

especially something like a buffalo chicken sandwich where they put some giant romaine leaf.  GTFO.  And self removal causes you to lose half your sauce

im ok with some (a little) finely shredded lettuce on a Big Mac or Italian sub but whole leaf lettuce on a sandwich can go to hell

AMEN!!!

 

[JetMaxx]

Infant, elderly and immune system compromised FBGs aside...Lettuce haters in here clearly haven't enjoyed the next day cleansing benefits of romaine lathered in E. coli  

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

You shut your whore mouth

That's not what whores do with their mouths.  This has been a public service announcement.

 

[JaxBill]

I, for one, welcome our new baby spinach overlords.

 

[Sand]

I, for one, welcome our new baby spinach overlords.

Spinach?

Sooooo :reported: for this outrageous statement.

 

[Mister CIA]

Lettuce Prey.

 

[Galileo]

Of all the people that eat romaine lettuce every day, 32 people over the span of almost a month doesn't sound too extreme.  I always figured about that many people get e.coli from lettuce anyways

Unless, of course, you are one of the 32.

 

[Ned]

Spinach?

Sooooo :reported: for this outrageous statement.

I used to like you.

 

[JoeSteeler]

Never hear of no iceberg recall. 

Still trying to recover from that whole "Titanic thing"

 

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especially something like a buffalo chicken sandwich where they put some giant romaine leaf.  GTFO.  And self removal causes you to lose half your sauce

im ok with some (a little) finely shredded lettuce on a Big Mac or Italian sub but whole leaf lettuce on a sandwich can go to hell

Bollocks.

A single cool leaf of iceberg lettuce is an integral textural component of a proper BLT. 

 

[NeverEnough]

Bollocks.

A single cool leaf of iceberg lettuce is an integral textural component of a proper BLT. 

Give me the romaine. iceberg offers zero nutritional value.

Now ground turkey has been recalled...

 

[NotSmart]

Now ground turkey has been recalled...

My wife and I only eat flying turkeys, so we should be okay.

 

[Galileo]

My wife and I only eat flying turkeys, so we should be okay.

Les, is that you?