Don't Eat The Spinach!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Rudyjohn]

FYI- rinsing the spinach will not kill Ecoli.

Uh, no kidding. That's what they've been saying.
I'm talking about washing the stuff in general, on a day to day basis. That's better than just ripping it apart and eating it. ;-)

 

[Teresa]

Dunno. Not my area of expertise. I'm just repeating what I heard on The Today Show from their medical reporter.

I *do* know that whenever I'm in a hurry and buy a bag salad, I open it up in the checkout line. If it smells sour, I refuse to pay for it. I can't tell you how many times in the past I have gotten dinner ready, thrown a bag salad into a bowl to mix it with dressing, and smelled that awful smell. Then we either have to drive to the store when the rest of the dinner is ready or skip the salad. As a result, now I very rarely buy bag salads. The exception is the Dole salads that are in a box instead of a bag. They very rarely have that funky smell. My theory is that the greens don't get bruised in a box like they do in a bag, so they last longer. Plus there are ventilation holes in the boxes but not in the bags. This theory of mine was reinforced tonight when I heard a CDC official on the news say that one problem with bag salads is that the bag is totally sealed, so if there is the tiniest bit of bacteria, the sealed bag is a perfect environment for their rapid growth.

well, I have never liked bagged salads, though I have used them from time to time for convenience. there's nothing like a fresh salad you've taken the time to wash and prepare. I really can't take the smell of a bagged salad, unless it is very, very fresh - and that is very rare...

 

[Teresa]

So guys, where do you think the field workers go to the bathroom when they're out there ALL day long?
A good friend of mine whose family owned a huge fruit farm in south Florida explained to me that the laborers do exactly that.

And as far as bagged salads, I've always still washed them. You know those factories do not do what they claim. I wash every single piece of vegitable and meat. The meat slaughterhouses are some of the filthiest places on earth.

oh drat. do I have to start growing my own veggies??? I wonder if organic is any better in this regard??? I would hope...

 

[Mango]

I tried to order a spinach salad with hot bacon dressing tonight. Couldn't get it. And no other salad sounded good. It is weird, you'd think the current problem would make spinach salad sound gross, but no...

I hear you can get bacon strips now with your spinach.:funn:

 

[dbuck]

oh drat. do I have to start growing my own veggies??? I wonder if organic is any better in this regard??? I would hope...

I think (if I heard correctly) they have determined that the spinach was from an organic farm in Calif.

 

[Jdarg]

I tried to order a spinach salad with hot bacon dressing tonight. Couldn't get it. And no other salad sounded good. It is weird, you'd think the current problem would make spinach salad sound gross, but no...

Ha ha Amy- my friend tried to do the same thing. And we had just been talking about the spinach when the server came to take our order. When she asked for the spinach salad, he looked at her like she was an idiot...like where had she been that she hadn't heard about the Great Spinach Crisis of 2006???

 

[Beach Runner]

I tried to order a spinach salad with hot bacon dressing tonight. Couldn't get it. And no other salad sounded good. It is weird, you'd think the current problem would make spinach salad sound gross, but no...

We had a more extreme experience last night. We went out to dinner, and the waitress said that they weren't serving any salads at all, not just spinach salads.

 

[Ocean Lover]

We had a more extreme experience last night. We went out to dinner, and the waitress said that they weren't serving any salads at all, not just spinach salads.

WOW.

 

[Lady D]

I do not even buy bagged salad anymore. Quit that a long time ago. I just had a McDonald's salad early in the week, like Monday or Tuesday. I hope that grilled chicken bacon ranch salad I had didn't have spinach in it. They showed big fields of fresh spinach last night on the news and it is mostly grown in California. Spinach salad is a big seller on the salad counters at cafeterias. I bet they had to pull them off of their counter also. The grocery stores here have pulled the bags of spinach and all fresh spinach. And I am sure the Easy Way Produce stores here have pulled all fresh spinach also. I used to buy it there on occasion! And I love spinach salad.

 

[Rudyjohn]

Can you imagine the damage this is going to have on the spinach industry?!