
So, I picked up my Taco Bell tonight and brought it home to eat it. When I opened up my Nachos Supreme, I was very disappointed to find, still no green onions. Now, Taco Bell food, while delicious, never really looks that appealing to begin with, but the nacho dishes look even less so without the little splashes of mouth watering green onions (I was going to call them scallions, but I'm not even sure if that is the right word and am too lazy to
wikipedia it). Well, I got all ready to complain about how its been long enough since those onions caused an e.
coli outbreak; I mean, come on, they reopened Whitewater like a week after Walt Weiss' son got sick; but I decided to do a little research before I did. So, I find a questions and answers section from the FDA on the matter, and I find out that this happened almost a year a half ago; by far long enough for them to bring back the onions. Then, lo and behold, I get down a little further and what do I find....
Does FDA know what caused the E. coli O157:H7 infections linked to some Taco Bell Restaurants in several Northeastern states? Shredded Iceberg lettuce has been implicated in the current E. coli O157:H7 outbreak....
WHAT? "I thought it was the onions(or scallions, maybe)"-You might say, stunned.
Are onions and green onions safe? Early reports that green onions were implicated in this outbreak were inaccurate. There is no indication that any type of onions, including green onions, are unsafe or are connected in any way with this outbreak
Wow, so all this time I thought I couldn't have my onions because of e.
coli, but it turns out it is just because Taco Bell doesn't want to fess up to the fact that it was the lettuce. I mean, I guess if they had to get rid of lettuce at the Bell, their Tacos would be 3/4 empty. Anyway, I'm furious. So write an e-mail, sign a petition, call your congressman, or whatever; lets just get these onions back.
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