Romaine Holiday
Trader Joe's is the best. I went in this morning and didn't even have the romaine with me to return. The manager asked how many I had purchased (it was a lot) and gave me a credit.
Does not matter if it is organic --- and I am wary of all lettuce ---
It is the packaging places that is the issue.
Compliments to the thread title. Just my luck, I had bought a peck.
I threw mine out. It was hard finding any leafy greens at the supermarket this morning. There seems to have been a run on anything salad like.
Directive is that none of it be eaten since the origin is still unknown.
ml1 said:
I'm pretty sure if I pray before I eat it I'll be OK.
Only if you're Romaine Catholic.
Oh jeez, just leaf it be already.
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Do other countries have this problem with romaine lettuce? Or is this part of American Exceptionalism?
DaveSchmidt said:
The bad supply chain must have a Belgian end, I've decided.
This pun is raddichious.
mrincredible said:
DaveSchmidt said:This pun is raddichious.
The bad supply chain must have a Belgian end, I've decided.
I think you're being a bit chard on him.
that last ‘like’ was for all of you! You had me in stitches!
We don’t currently have a Food Safety warning on salad items (we do on konjac mini-jellies) but it’s fun to read your puns. 
ml1 said:
I'm a-dressing all of you. this is enough punishment.
Never enough! I'm supplying them to my brother for Dad jokes 
FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb was on CNBC this morning and said that the contaminated romaine had been traced to California. The romaine season is over in California and romaine will be coming from Florida and Arizona. Not mentioned was the fact that the last round of contaminated roamine came from Arizona.
"For more than a decade, it’s been clear that there’s a gaping hole in American food safety: Growers aren’t required to test their irrigation water for pathogens such as E. coli. As a result, contaminated water can end up on fruits and vegetables.
After several high-profile disease outbreaks linked to food, Congress in 2011 ordered a fix, and produce growers this year would have begun testing their water under rules crafted by the Obama administration’s Food and Drug Administration.
But six months before people were sickened by the contaminated romaine, President Donald Trump’s FDA – responding to pressure from the farm industry and Trump’s order to eliminate regulations – shelved the water-testing rules for at least four years."
I saw some romaine smashed onto the sidewalk in Washington, DC this past weekend. I was a block away from the FDA building, so maybe it was a protest of some sort.
drummerboy said:
Why is it always romaine that's the problem?
A very popular loose leaf lettuce. the bacteria can easily spread via the conveyor belts used to package the lettuce. They hose the lettuces down and the water spreads the bacteria onto the conveyor belt. With Iceberg, it remains on the outside and most people peel off the outer layers. They walked thru the process on one of the news shows last outbreak. I avoid all loose leaf lettuces unless purchased at a local farm (and yes it is still possible but a lot less likely).
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Is organic romaine from Trader Joe's safe, or should I throw it out in view of CDC's warning not to eat any romaine, from any source?
I bought several bags yesterday.
eta - I'm making a baby spinach run this morning.