What's up with all the chain restaurants giving people weird and nasty diseases? Taco Bell, now Olive Garden?

http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/12/18/olive.garden.outbreak/index.html

What's up with all the chain restaurants giving people weird and nasty diseases? Taco Bell, now Olive Garden?

http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/12/18/olive.garden.outbreak/index.html

Obesity's a disease now? That seems to me to be what you'd catch from all-you-can-eat breadsticks.

/didn't RTFA

This is more about the industrial and centralized processing of food. You get problem spinach or something into the processing plant, and it gets into everything, which is then shipped overnight all over the country.

http://www.altonbrown.com/adventure/knowledge/edible_news.html

What's up with all the chain restaurants giving people weird and nasty diseases? Taco Bell, now Olive Garden?

http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/12/18/olive.garden.outbreak/index.html

even more amazing, at least to me, is the fact that.....that was your nineteen thousand, four hundred and ninth post.

discuss over burritos and pasta....

Obesity's a disease now? That seems to me to be what you'd catch from all-you-can-eat breadsticks.

/didn't RTFA
Good thing Taco Bell doesn't make you fat. 'Cause I loves my Taco Bell.

of an admin putting industry lobbyists in watchdog positions. (sorry this will wind up in PO)
total number of inspections under Bush is 10% the number under Clinton for equal time periods. 3500 to 35,000. When you put Foxes in charge of the henhouse, don't be shocked when you lose some chickens

Obesity's a disease now? That seems to me to be what you'd catch from all-you-can-eat breadsticks.

/didn't RTFA
well, the E-Coli and salmonella will counteract any weight gain from the breadsticks nicely.

Noro is a bad one. Shellfish is a common source of Noro and the fun part of it is that fishermen caught with the squirts will infect new oysterbanks etc. It will live on in the water for days after flushing yer terlets.

I try to avoid all restaurants, even when they are not serving bacteria or viruses.

Considering how many people eat out each day I don't see what the big deal is. It happens more at home than a restaurant. We can't have 100 percent safety on everything. It's the latest fad in news reporting. Everything is a crisis these days.

Excuse me, I have to go read my people magazine and USA today..

What's up with all the chain restaurants giving people weird and nasty diseases? Taco Bell, now Olive Garden?

http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/12/18/olive.garden.outbreak/index.html

This restaurant is 10 minutes from my house. Where the hell am I gonna eat now?

And for the record, what consumers likely didn't understand is that it was a holiday promotion. All you can eat breadsticks, pasta and O157:H7 Escherichia coli.

Dysentery is so hot right now.

This restaurant is 10 minutes from my house. Where the hell am I gonna eat now?

And for the record, what consumers likely didn't understand is that it was a holiday promotion. All you can eat breadsticks, pasta and O157:H7 Escherichia coli.

Dysentery is so hot right now.

Can you imgine how you'd have felt if you read my post after coming back from lunch there?

Can you imgine how you'd have felt if you read my post after coming back from lunch there?
The same way he would have done in 5 hours anyway :)

I just came back from there. Had the door not been locked and had some guy wearing a bowling shirt with "Health Inspector" written on the front not told me to piss off, I'd being all-you-can-eating 'til the rumblings began.

Happen to see some suit from Taco Bell in T.V. ads last night? He was jabbering about how they appreciate your buiness and are working for better safety standards. He also said it was completely safe to eat Taco Bell. To top it off, he was British. A Brit, re-assuring me my Mexican food is safe from bacterial infection, in the north eastern U.S. weird.

I think that having a common supplier for a large number of restaurants in a chain leads to many stores getting the same bad supply of food. This kindof thing goes on everywhere to be frank. The only reason why we don't hear about it is because the other restaurants aren't big enough for the "Associated" (<<<<.monopoly.) press to care about. Who's going to care that Jack's Burger and Grill on "x" avenue in Vermont had a severe outbreak of e.coli, especially if one lives in Ohio?

Now me personally? I'm all for exposing the public to "occasional" bouts of food related illnesses. After all everyone knows that this will be the primary source for the terrorists to get us using their evil biological weapons. It's not contamination but rather "preemptive vacination countering the overly aggressive conspirators' fight against freedom to wantenly deplete black gold".

Don't forget, the factory farms with the contracts to supply the big chains need to super-charge fertilize the fields, so liquid $hit is the answer.

Pig farms, Dairy farms, or your local sewage treatment plan are great sources.

I am surprised it doesn't happen more.

I had to go today and do some interviews in one of our other offices.

Got up early and had breakfast at the airport, had lunch in another chain outlet, now at the airport waiting for my flight home, having my third restaurant meal of the day, third different chain.

The food all tastes the same, it all tastes like crap.

When I get a vacation I want to stay home and have a cheese sandwich and a glass of milk.

My wife and kids want to get on a plane and fly somewhere so we can eat more food that tastes like nothing, and all tastes the same.

I'm surprised I don't get sick more often.

I saw the commercial. Guy was an Aussie, I believe. Much more trustworthy:idea::thumbsup: :p:crazy:(BTW-this little pink smiley guy is my new personal fave)