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Kids - are you looking for an excuse not to eat your vegetables? You're in luck! After weeks of investigation, health officials have finally decided that lettuce may be responsible for spreading around the E. coli which infested several local Taco Bell restaurants, making ill 71 people in five states. Lettuce was chosen out of a line-up of foods including ground beef, cheese, and green onions (scallions). Building an airtight case around the leafy green, however, will be difficult given almost every Taco Bell product (including the soda, we suspect) contains the stuff. The president of the chain refuses to divulge the name of the lettuce provider but assures customers that a new vendor is being used in the afflicted restaurants.
And AM New York reports that this past incident had nothing to do with a similar outbreak of E. coli at various Taco John restaurants in the Midwest. We've never heard of the chain but think it's definitely an odd name for a Mexican food chain. Has anyone ever eaten there?
So the next time your parents tell you to eat your greens, turn to them and say, "No thanks, I'd rather not have bloody diarrhea." That'll show `em.
Again, E. coli is a common, usually harmless, bacteria found in the bowel of lots of animals. The E. coli O157:H7 strain is a tad more serious, causing bloody diarrhea, kidney failure, blindness, paralysis, and even death. Read all about it on the CDC's website.
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The soda might not have lettuce, but it does have that god-awful high fructose corn syrup which is killing the American diet and is probably the biggest reason that people are so fat in this country.
Since I grew up in Nebraska, I am very familiar with Taco John's, which is based, I believe, in Wyoming. For fast food, it's pretty tasty, and a few dozen notches above Taco Bell, whose "food" I find revolting. It's a chain, though, so no big surprise that the ill effects of industrial food have struck. It was only a matter of time...
I ate alot of Taco John's while at college in Kentucky. Not bad, actually, but not much different than Taco Bell either. Spicier, with a tremendous love for Tater Tots smothered in Nacho Cheese.
taco john's is pretty good... they have these thigns called potato ole's that are basically tater tots tossed in taco seasoning.
and on the taco bell tip, not a ton of their stuff has lettuce. bean burritos, mexican pizza, grilled stuft.
sadly, the beloved CRUNCHWRAP is packed full with lettuce, but worth the possible e. coli infection.
I also grew up in the midwest and have fond memories of Taco Johns. Besides the amazing food(I suggest the chicken and potato ole burrito) the advertising features a monkey in a cowboy outfit riding a dog like a horse. I don't think it gets much better than that.
I used to eat at Taco Johns regularly. I don't remember it being that much different than any other fast food mexican place.
Am I the only one guiltily thinking, "Oh hell I'm so going to Taco Bell, I'm sure they'll be forced to step up the quality from here on out...at least for a while."
high fructose corn syrup which is killing the American diet and is probably the biggest reason that people are so fat in this country.
someone just read The Omnivore's Dilemma!
Really, isn't it the calories, not the corn syrup?
In Fast Food Nation, the author says that e-coli is another way of saying there's poop in the meat.
How did poop get on the lettuce? Did they use fresh manure as a fertilizer? Did a farm worker poop in the irrigation ditch? Did the lettuce picker have poop on his hands?
I don't like to eat poop and I want to know how I can avoid eating poop without having to grow all of my own food.
Taco Bell copied Taco John's potato burrito, Taco John had it first, and also the first place I ever tasted one. Sheer heaven. Also Taco Johns seems to be a bit more "American" food wise than Taco Bell.
I got food poisoning at a Taco Johns in Denver in 1984. I was 16 and my boyfriend brought me home late that night (midnight!) and then I was up all night vomiting. My mother didn't believe me about the food poisoning - she decided I was drunk and pregnant, of course. Thanks to bacteria, my mother never believed another word that came out of my mouth. And then I dropped out of high school. I continued to eat at Taco Johns, however. I miss it on the EC.
mmmm...com,
No, I haven't read that book but will look into it - thanks for bringing it to my attention.
I'm not dismissing other reasons why Americans are so fat - surely a sedentary lifestyle doesn't help, nor does the pre-ponderance of fastfood and prepackaged food which I'm convinced eliminates most of the nutritional value of any food source - but I do blame a lot of it on high fructose corn syrup.
I have very recently started going out of my way to buy products that don't have this junk in them. Since I substituted corn syrup-based sodas with sugar-based sodas a few months ago, my beltline has shrunk a full size. And that's without changing anything else in my diet.
Question: why do newspapers/tv news shows call scallions "green onions"? I know they are the same thing, but i've never heard anyone call them green onions in my life, except in mass media... can anyone explain this? Is it a nyc thing to call them scallions? Do they call them green onions in other parts of the country? I've lived here my whole life so i wouldnt' know.
#12, I've heard them called scallions, green onions, and spring onions. I think the media prefers "green onion" because it is a more basic term that needs little explanation. Otherwise, the reporters would likely clarify with, "Scallions, or green onions...."