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Title: Romaine lettuce
Post by: Nancy5 on May 02, 2018, 01:44:53 pm
The CDC has just reported the first death due to eating the lettuce.  I don’t know exactly had to tell if it comes from Yuma Arizona, I just stopped buying it.
Title: Re: Romaine lettuce
Post by: brian8713 on May 02, 2018, 01:59:08 pm
I'm not buying it either. It's a shame because romaine is always my favorite!! I love making a good Caesar salad and serving it with dinner throughout the week.
Title: Re: Romaine lettuce
Post by: dsosnowski06 on May 02, 2018, 06:15:55 pm
My favorite too and not all the bags show where it was grown and loose stalks you have no idea at all.  Been buying iceberg until this is over
Title: Re: Romaine lettuce
Post by: plennis on May 02, 2018, 06:46:30 pm
A lot of the restaurants in my area are not serving any salads until this has passed.  I love Romaine and have really been missing it, but better safe than sorry.  We have planted some in our garden in case this goes on to long...LOL
Title: Re: Romaine lettuce
Post by: natashaspy on May 02, 2018, 06:51:56 pm
It's sad that the most healthy foods you can eat seem to becoming the most dangerous!
Title: Re: Romaine lettuce
Post by: Yukichan77 on May 02, 2018, 07:44:43 pm
Wow, now that's crazy. I'm not a big fan of romaine lettuce anyways.
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Post by: Sendmicheck on May 02, 2018, 07:49:23 pm
Romaine lettuce is my sister's favorite for making salad.  I am not happy about this knowing that someone dies from it.  This is so sad.
Title: Re: Romaine lettuce
Post by: bigfoot951 on May 02, 2018, 07:58:20 pm
I find it interesting how people are talking about 'healthy' foods being dangerous.  If you are eating a salad to be healthy...you wouldn't/shouldn't be eating Romaine lettuce anyway.  And it's scary to me how they report this but they don't report the countless deaths because of other foods and maybe more importantly, pills!
Title: Re: Romaine lettuce
Post by: lguzman1 on May 02, 2018, 10:17:22 pm
I know I just saw it in the news, scary!
Title: Re: Romaine lettuce
Post by: LenoraMinogue on May 02, 2018, 11:08:54 pm
It's a shame about the Romaine lettuce. This has been a particularly bad issue, makes me sad someone died from it. Hope they get rid of the bad lettuce soon.
Title: Re: Romaine lettuce
Post by: lhz123 on May 03, 2018, 05:10:25 am
Yes so sad and almost Romaine lettuce comes from Arizona and California.  Many restaurants  don't offer Caesar salad anymore because of that problem. So scary.
Title: Re: Romaine lettuce
Post by: bshee58 on May 03, 2018, 05:11:41 am
I never buy that kind of lettuce.
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Post by: kathleenkleinhans on May 03, 2018, 07:14:09 am
I am just now feeling better after 6 days, having eaten a caesar salad, dont even know if I can look at lettuce again for a long time
Title: Re: Romaine lettuce
Post by: sfreeman8 on May 03, 2018, 07:20:54 am
I haven't been in any stores lately but last week I had noticed that the one store was still selling Romaine. Don't know if it was grown somewhere else or if they just didn't know about the problem. Supposedly PA had the most people sick from it. That, too, was from last week's news. I was going to buy some but not now. I'll wait. Guess it's back to good ole lettuce temporarily. :(
Title: Re: Romaine lettuce
Post by: mrsmere on May 03, 2018, 03:18:34 pm
I eat lots of salad but now have to watch more closely.   It seems a lot of foods are having  an issue lately, a couple of weeks ago it was eggs.
Title: Re: Romaine lettuce
Post by: tnshpalmer85 on May 03, 2018, 04:11:20 pm
I love eating salads. I usually eat large salads at least 2 days a week. We have been serving salads where I work and no one has gotten sick so I finally bought some yesterday and it was so good.
Title: Re: Romaine lettuce
Post by: linderlizzie on May 03, 2018, 04:32:32 pm
I checked online to see if you could wash the lettuce well enough to rid it of the e-coli. The site I went to said that there are too many crevices in the lettuce where the germs can hide and so it cannot easily be washed away. Too bad. :(

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Title: Re: Romaine lettuce
Post by: ljrjess69 on May 06, 2018, 09:58:32 pm
yeah its some scarey news...... :( :(
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Post by: nmbrown863 on May 07, 2018, 05:15:08 pm
We had to quit selling salads at work for a little over a week. Some customers got a little mad but it is better to be safe than sorry.
Title: Re: Romaine lettuce
Post by: catchow on May 08, 2018, 11:01:49 am
I saw that, and thats my favorite lettuce to eat.
Title: Re: Romaine lettuce
Post by: makeblessed on May 08, 2018, 11:10:49 am
The Same here, I just get the regular iceberg lettuce which is not my favorite; but until  things clear up that will be my choice and hope they don't find a problem with that  one as I am a salad lover.
Title: Re: Romaine lettuce
Post by: alice44 on May 08, 2018, 11:12:18 am
Fortunately I didn't have any romaine lettuce when the warning came out.  I won't buy it for a while now.  Spinach in my salad sounds good  ;)
Title: Re: Romaine lettuce
Post by: monnee on May 08, 2018, 11:14:30 am
Don't eat RL, I'll make you sick.
Title: Re: Romaine lettuce
Post by: countrygirl12 on May 08, 2018, 04:06:23 pm
The CDC has just reported the first death due to eating the lettuce.  I don’t know exactly had to tell if it comes from Yuma Arizona, I just stopped buying it.

There are problems with the bagged lettuce every year. I had been buying it but then had not in a couple weeks then saw the recall.  I have decided not to buy it any more. Would like to just grow my own.