OT: Some Will Have No Problem
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here”
Shakespeare
My wife eats enough fresh produce weekly to cover 2 families. Thoughts and prayers.
StickierBuns wrote:
My wife eats enough fresh produce weekly to cover 2 families. Thoughts and prayers.
Thoughts and prayers indeed. This is some nasty, miserable shit.
Mine's vegetarian...
Hurry-up Vikings, we ain't getting any younger!
purplefaithful wrote:
Mine's vegetarian...
I hear you, I think mine is part fruit bat.
Marketing genius.
— Planet Of Memes @PlanetOfMemes Jul 15, 2026
Marketing genius.
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here”
Shakespeare
Taco Bell and their iceberg lettuce supplier is a main focus now.....like they needed help in manufacturing diarrhea to their customers before this. 🤔🙄
Some consumers don't understand that many retailers share suppliers, with varying levels of quality depending on what they are looking for, specs and what pricepoint they need to be at. A Whole Foods or a Costco won't have the same lettuce supplier, but Walmart or ALDI might. And iceberg is the cheapest crap of the lettuce world you can get.....
— Stephen King @StephenKing Jul 19, 2026
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here”
Shakespeare
Taylor Farms is a big time distributor.....to many top retailers. Yikes.
StickierBuns wrote:
Taylor Farms is a big time distributor.....to many top retailers. Yikes.
Yup, their iceberg lettuce goes to: Walmart, Target, Costco, Kroger, Safeway, Albertsons, Whole Foods...
Source: AI
Walmart and Kroger alone account for the entire country distribution wise. This isnt taking into account the restaurants and food chains they supply.
Hurry-up Vikings, we ain't getting any younger!
I'm one more Cyclosporiasis away from my target weight.
"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it”
I'd be more than pissed if I were Taylor Farms:
"The Food and Drug Administration walked back claims that the parasite that has sickened thousands across the U.S. was found on lettuce from Taylor Farms. The agency reclassified Saturday's finding as a false positive and added that the cyclospora parasite has not been detected on any of its samples."
StickierBuns wrote:
I'd be more than pissed if I were Taylor Farms:
"The Food and Drug Administration walked back claims that the parasite that has sickened thousands across the U.S. was found on lettuce from Taylor Farms. The agency reclassified Saturday's finding as a false positive and added that the cyclospora parasite has not been detected on any of its samples."
Thats an understatement...
Cross checking for false positives is an elementary part of an investigation like this.
Either incompetence, too few resources or in too much of a hurry. Maybe all of the above.
Hurry-up Vikings, we ain't getting any younger!
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