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spinach chain letter stupidity kills

Sep 18, 2006 02:34

I got a chain letter which I will not reproduce here about how the spinach is just fine and it's a big conspiracy and no one is really getting sick from the spinach and it's the evil spinach-hating anti-raw-food forces spreading the lies about the virtuous spinach because "they" don't want you to eat nice raw healthy spinach and live forever ( Read more... )

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autodidactic September 18 2006, 12:14:26 UTC

Thank heavens for the fucker with the microscope, I always say.

handstil September 18 2006, 14:28:49 UTC

what? spinach bad? I hadn't heard this yet!
I wash even triple washed bagged lettuce so I'll probably live?
As a bonafide food paranoid, the idea that I didn't hear about this alarms me.

bethesaurusrex September 18 2006, 14:47:33 UTC

Snopes picked it up and summarized it pretty well. I wish they'd picked up this OMG CONSPIRACY SPINACH IS ALL SAFE chainmail. That is ridiculous and completely crazy.

brianenigma September 18 2006, 14:52:50 UTC

Yep, spinach is bad right now. At least bagged spinach is. The spinach we get comes from organic local growers, although our Organics2You shipments haven't contained spinach in months--maybe because of the spinach scare, or is it out of season? We get lots of kale, though.

What really gets me is the NPR Morning Edition blurb on this last week. It effectively said not to eat spinach until you hear further from them. I have a feeling that the bad spinach is going to slowly disappear, but fast enough that nobody will be able to trace its origins, meaning there's no real news story in which to say "hey, everybody! Spinach is good again!" So people will be holding off on the spinach indefinitely.

substitute September 18 2006, 17:43:43 UTC

Right, and everyone fails to see the real point, which is that bagged produce and other similar products are great disease vectors. It's not the spinach, stupid, it's the POO.

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planetdracula September 18 2006, 14:57:37 UTC

every word of this entry is on the money

pilarcruz September 18 2006, 16:19:49 UTC

Amen.

I've had e coli twice and it was not nice. I was very, very sick. I can't imagine what it would do to someone with a constitution less sturdy than mine.

But I lost a lot of weight.

eyeteeth September 18 2006, 16:48:34 UTC

A septicemic E. coli infection nearly killed my father a couple of years ago. He was running a 105-degree fever, which is about one degree below the temperature at which your internal organs start to fail. They had to pack him in ice. So there you go! He lost a lot of weight too.

gordonzola September 18 2006, 16:41:39 UTC

hey, I actually have a professional interest in this. Could you forward the e-mail to me?

gordonzola @ livejournal.com