Hands Out of the Cookie Jar - It May Contain E. Coli

I would have to consider those items (4.00 / 3)

food before I put them on my "do not eat" list, wouldn't I?

Well, except the strawberries. You'd have to pry the NYS strawberries out of my cold, dead hands, missy! They're only in season for another 2 weeks or something, and there's no way I'm waiting until next year to eat some.

I wish I knew half what the flock of them know
Of where all the berries and other things grow,
Cranberries in bogs and raspberries on top
Of the boulder-strewn mountain, and when they will crop.
--"Blueberries" by Robert Frost

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by: wide eyed lib @ Thu Jun 18, 2009 at 20:00:28 PM UTC

agreed (4.00 / 3)

fruit rollups, packaged cookies, and ground beef are not items that go in my mouth.

"I can understand someone from Iowa promoting corn and soy, but we are not feeding the world, we are feeding animals and soft drink companies." - Jim Goodman

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by: Jill Richardson @ Thu Jun 18, 2009 at 21:07:37 PM UTC

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If you are putting cookies in the cookie jar (4.00 / 1)

before they are baked, we need to have a nice long talk.

FWIW my wife has been cautioning the kids and grandkids about eating raw cookie dough of ANY kind -- prepacked, homemade, whatever -- because most cookies are made with eggs and raw eggs are a risk for salmonella. E. coli never entered into it before now, but these days, who knows. This goes somewhat against the grain because when we were kids our moms always let us lick the spoon when they were making cookies. When you look back on it, sometimes it's a wonder any of us made it through to adulthood.

I have succumbed to the Twitter craze. @Omir55

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by: Omir the Storyteller @ Thu Jun 18, 2009 at 22:35:53 PM UTC

Yep (4.00 / 2)

Uncooked cookie dough is always a risk. But, I let my daughter eat it anyway. We always make from scratch, and usually from our own eggs.

Here in California, we have a much lower incidence of salmonella in eggs. And when we were kids, salmonella was much less prevalent in chickens than it is today.

But e. coli? Gah. Still, in a processing plant making dough, anything could happen.

As it was, he did a deal with a blancmange, and the blancmange ate his wife.

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by: elfling @ Thu Jun 18, 2009 at 23:32:12 PM UTC

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Nestle update (4.00 / 1)

Nestle recalls Toll House cookie dough products

Nestle spokeswoman Roz O'Hearn said "this has been a very quickly moving situation," adding the company took action less than 24 hours after hearing of the problem.
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The recall includes refrigerated cookie bar dough, cookie dough tub, cookie dough tubes, limited edition cookie dough items, seasonal cookie dough and Ultimates cookie bar dough. It does not affect any other Toll House products.

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by: count @ Fri Jun 19, 2009 at 14:48:05 PM UTC

I'm still having a problem (4.00 / 2)

figuring out how 0157:H7 could have gotten in raw cookie dough. Salmonella I can see, from raw eggs, but E. coli 0157:H7?

Regarding locavores as elitists - explain to me how supporting local business is elitist....

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by: Joanne Rigutto @ Sat Jun 20, 2009 at 03:32:08 AM UTC

no idea (4.00 / 1)

unless it was cross-contamination of something in a manufacturing plant?

"I can understand someone from Iowa promoting corn and soy, but we are not feeding the world, we are feeding animals and soft drink companies." - Jim Goodman

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by: Jill Richardson @ Sat Jun 20, 2009 at 04:11:57 AM UTC

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you're not the only one wondering that it seems (4.00 / 1)

http://www.marlerblog.com/2009...

"I can understand someone from Iowa promoting corn and soy, but we are not feeding the world, we are feeding animals and soft drink companies." - Jim Goodman

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by: Jill Richardson @ Sat Jun 20, 2009 at 15:32:41 PM UTC

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That (4.00 / 1)

was my first thought - cross contamination.

I was listening to the radio today - like I always do - and on the news it said that in all of the product tested so far for the raw cookie dough, none had come up positive. The apparent reason that Nestle recalled the dough was that it was the only common factor between the people who got sick.

Regarding locavores as elitists - explain to me how supporting local business is elitist....

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by: Joanne Rigutto @ Sun Jun 21, 2009 at 04:18:42 AM UTC

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