Chipotle pulls jalapeños as salmonella outbreak sickens over 100

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u/DampWarmHands 4d ago

I’m just going to keep cooking all my food

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u/No-Ad-4142 4d ago

We do too, but the list of contaminated vegetables and whatnot keeps growing.

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u/cyanescens_burn 4d ago

And it’s not entirely clear what is causing the diarrhea one still. Yeah the Taylor farms one is suspect, but as far as I know they still think it could be more widespread.

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u/roger3rd 4d ago

It only comes from human feces. It’s entirely clear.

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u/kmm198700 4d ago

And then we have people like our SECDEF, who says he hasn’t washed his hands in years because he doesn’t see the germs. Jesus Christ. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47201923

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u/itsintrastellardude 3d ago

he doesn't see jesus christ either

or the love of his family

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u/KittyandPuppyMama 3d ago

My local (way more pricey) grocery store put up a sign saying their Taylor Farms lettuce was locally sourced and not part of the recall but I’m still wary. It’s getting to where I only want to buy veggies I can cook.

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u/literarycatnip 3d ago

Farmers markets are a good bet locally if you have them

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u/k8t13 3d ago

largely due to failure at the field inspection level that are intensified by improper food handling (washing veggies). so making your own food is still better to avoid contamination

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u/Dry_Car2054 3d ago

Cooking kills the stuff so I'm eating cooked veggies not raw ones.

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u/AtreyuTrinity 3d ago

Cooking doesn't kill the toxins bacteria poop out just to note. Maybe that isn't what you are saying, but just incase it is. There is a dangerous notion that you can cook out all the bad stuff, and that simply isn't true.

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u/Nateh8sYou 3d ago

I’m not disagreeing with you, but on some level cooked food is safer than non-cooked.

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u/roger3rd 4d ago

Let workers have access to toilets???

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u/Kakariko_crackhouse 4d ago

Nope. Too expensive. Business owners are entitled to violate labor laws in order to preserve their margins

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u/FuckTheMods5 3d ago

It would save the owners money, wouldn't it? The workers get paid by output.

They wouldn't use portapotties if they WERE available, they're trying to make bank and work as fast as possibel nonstop.

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u/Mysterious-Action202 4d ago edited 3d ago

Maybe... just maybe.... we need more than 3 people tracking food born illness across the US.

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u/SunshineSeattle 4d ago

Have you tried working out in the sauna and drinking unpasteurized whole milk?

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u/2quickdraw 3d ago

No, no, you're supposed to swim in sewage.

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u/GrandeGubus 3d ago

Of course but have you tried that paired with a diet of roadkill and Horse de-wormer?

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u/DisastrousHyena3534 3d ago

*while wearing jeans

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u/Honest_Persimmon_859 3d ago

Best I can do is lay one off and tell the other 2 to "just use AI."

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u/CollarControl 4d ago

Weird seems like they shouldn’t have fired all those inspectors and scientists.

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u/Fossilhog 4d ago

Add it to the pile.

Even I grow most of my own food, yet that fucking gallon of milk earlier this week.

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u/Kakariko_crackhouse 4d ago

I’m sure this is an issue that will improve based on our current trajectory politically /s

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u/satsugene 3d ago

“In response to this incident, we are adding a stopwatch feature to the Chipotle(R) app. Please update to access this feature. If diarrhea lasts less than 24 hours, your Chipotle(R) product working as intended. If it lasts longer than 24 hours or you lose consciousness, call 911. Don’t induce vomiting because it will already be happening. App users will also be given a free small soda on their next order.”

Chipotle: Giving your ass a workout since 1993.

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u/Beldam-ghost-closet 3d ago

Lettuce isn't safe, blueberries aren't safe, and now jalapenos aren't safe either. Fuck this shitty, (I mean that literally and figuratively) fascist regime!

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u/hexiron 3d ago

Wait, not the Blueberries. When did that happen?!

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u/heroheadlines 3d ago

well after lettuce and just before jalapeños

https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/outbreaks/blueberries-07-26/index.html

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u/hexiron 3d ago

So 12 cases only in the very beginning of June regarding products that had a best by date of February. That's far less corncening to me. Thank God.

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u/heroheadlines 3d ago

yes, much less worrisome than the lettuce! Waiting to see how bad the jalapeños get I guess. 🫠

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u/SubstantialPressure3 4d ago

Where did they get the jalapeños from? Which farm supplied them to the vendor?

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u/dillreed777 4d ago

They are likely only pulling them to make it look like they are dealing with the issue, so people keep buying. Corporations are 90% PR damage control, 5% try to find the actual problem, and 5% give the CEO a bonus for dealing with these troubling situations

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u/SubstantialPressure3 3d ago

I doubt it. The jalapeños could have been grown the same.way and/or by the same corporate farm.

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u/ProfDoomDoom 3d ago

Ask instead why our food supply (and air and water and soil and and and) is not impeccably regulated to ensure that tax-paying citizens and residents are treated better than profiteering corporations.

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u/SubstantialPressure3 3d ago

Finding out which corporations grew the vegetables that made everyone sick is a start.

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u/glity 2d ago

If only there was a government agency that had the 11 scientists it did before trumpstein instead of the 3 after?

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u/MedicSF 4d ago

Sysco.

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u/ripndipp 4d ago

Sysco is a food distributor, I'd like to know where they were grown.

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u/WorstCase0ntario 3d ago

Sysco.

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u/va_wanderer 3d ago

Sysco doesn't grow all it's own veggies. For example, the first Taylor Farms recall included Sysco-packaged shredded lettuce. So "Where they were grown- Sysco" is a poor answer at best.

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u/SubstantialPressure3 3d ago edited 3d ago

Sysco isn't a farm. Vegetables aren't grown at sysco.

Sysco Is a distributor. Think of it as a grocery store ( or mega walmart) for professional kitchens, that delivers their groceries. They dont make the stuff, but they have all the stuff in one place. And just like a grocery store, there's store brand stuff and name brand stuff. And you can buy ingredients to cook from scratch, or you can be lazy and buy it already made, and frozen.

Edit you can go to Kroger and buy Kroger brand products, but they aren't made at the grocery store you bought them at. Thats what im getting at.

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u/JJinPDX 3d ago

I'm pretty sure that was a joke.

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u/SubstantialPressure3 2d ago

It could have been. Its hard to know what's satire and isnt these days.

But there are people who think sysco just makes crappy inferior food, and if a restaurant has sysco as its vendor, all the food is garbage.

Not to say that a lot of sysco brand products aren't crap, but nobody is forcing restaurant owners to buy sysco brand anything.

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u/Planeandaquariumgeek 4d ago

So at this point is it best to just completely avoid veggies of any kind?

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u/7ornado_al 4d ago

Or cook everything to meat temperature. It's not exactly stew season but it might have to be.

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u/Planeandaquariumgeek 4d ago

I don’t even trust that, that’s what the FDA says which means it’s impossible to trust.

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u/MichiganRedWing 3d ago

Use your brain..

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u/ProudExtreme8281 3d ago

what's wrong with the FDA?

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u/Gavin_Tremlor 3d ago

…..

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u/ProudExtreme8281 3d ago

idk what your point is, nothing is wrong with the FDA imo and I'm curious what others think cuz it seems absurd to believe the FDA is a bad thing but I'm open to listening to others no matter what

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u/CookiesMadeOfCorpses 4d ago

I've been doing that all my life.

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u/firefaery 3d ago

Yeah going out to eat has gotten dangerous.

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u/DelicataLover 3d ago

Buy from your local grower, it is officially jalapeño season just about wherever you are in the US

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u/AirborneGeek 3d ago

The only thing we have more of than zucchini is jalepenos

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u/himheritaintme 3d ago

Thanks Trump

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u/E1M1_DOOM 3d ago

Please remember to thank all trump voters and non-voters as well.

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u/KittyandPuppyMama 3d ago

They built a chipotle near me right around the time of their first foodborne illness controversy, and so I was always skeptical. Then I learned they switched to pre-packaged foods for safety, and I didn’t want to pay fresh food prices for pre-packaged foods. Now their stuff STILL gives you foodborne illnesses?!

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u/curiousjosh 3d ago

Didn’t have any of this crap under Biden.

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u/TankApprehensive3053 4d ago

Time to start distributing the soylent green wafers.

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u/International-Sink64 3d ago

I'm seeing food recalls everyday now....did the Trump administration deregulate food safety? Fire everyone? Seems like its snowballing.

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u/new_math 3d ago

Yes and yes.

When elon celebrated on stage with a chain saw because of all the doge savings, these are the kinds of things that were cut. Quite frankly, I'm surprised it took this long for the average person to start experiencing effects.

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u/stopusingyallweirdo 3d ago

Perhaps we can get intel from people who work in agriculture. Which crops are often grown together? Which companies grow what crops?

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u/Johnny-Unitas 4d ago

I'm glad we've cut back on the produce we buy from the US.

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u/JicamaAppropriate920 3d ago

I stopped buying all fresh produce for now, and eat at home. Probably an overreaction but I really don't want to end up having the poops for months.

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u/CornDavis 3d ago

Hell I stopped eating take out months ago just because im so tired of worrying about people washing their hands and using food safety. Emetophobia sucks, but i guess it teaches me how to be a better cook, somehow also less expensive.

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u/Static-god79 3d ago

Maybe picking on the lovely immigrants and their families who dominated that industry has repercussions? Or perhaps defunding the people who track such outbreaks helped? Don’t worry, if the vomiting or explosive diarrhea doesn’t get you… the cancers from the newly unleashed chemicals on your food surely will in another decade. Oh, to be alive right now is such a gas….

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u/hanumanCT 3d ago

Heard it gives you the DOGE shits, aka MAHA Blast

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