McDonald's zeroes in on onions as the likely source of deadly E. coli outbreak
McDonald's zeroes in on onions as the likely source of deadly E. coli outbreak
The onions in question come from a single source, which neither McDonald's representatives nor federal health officials named.
This has to be one of the closest to life mcdonalds sandwich picture I've seen. All sad and depressing.
Needs to have the cheese falling off one side rather than being centered. Although...I guess I don't see any cheese.
Why couldn’t it have been trump’s daily hamberder?
I don't know... would E.coli cause someone to miss alot of interviews and events due to "exhaustion" and potentially choose to sit on an absorbant mat when sitting on a clean white couch?
Maybe it did affect his.
Looked it up, e.coli symptoms tend to start 4 days after infection, in healthy people, as little as one day after for people with weaker immune systems. Symptoms involve diarrhea, stomach cramps and can include fever.
If he got it the first day those burgers were tainted, and most people took another 3 to 4 days after they had their burgers to start showing symptoms. It's entirely possible that by the time enough people had it that it was definitively traced back to mcdonalds and then we finally heard about it, that could easily be what has been up with Trump lately.
Edit, actually just thought to look up the timeline of both as they should both be known. Mcdonalds said they determined the tainted burgers/onions seem to have been available from september 27th to october 11th. The day trump cut his rally short to stand on stage and listen to music for 40 minutes was october 14th. Could sort of be related, but I think the e.coli outbreak is just a bit too early to explain his recent behavior, as much as diarrhea and stomach cramps would sort of explain some of it. He could just be shitting his pants normally instead of brought on by anything specific. And he could just be normal exhausted instead of e.coli exhausted. And he kind just always looks like he has stomach cramps...
Give it a few more days.
US food production is disgusting. We are shoveling food no other nation would accept as edible even for their pets. These outbreaks are a feature not a bug. Except more of these outbreaks as we lead the spear of this doom spiraling economic system. Either the literal poison we eat will kill us eventually or we wise up and say enough. Eating in America is next to impossible to do for the average American because the healthy options are unaffordable.
If you're growing onions in a field that doesn't have proper drainage, the water/fertilizer can actually build up in the tissue of the onion and surface washing doesn't help.
The E. Coli probably comes from the poop water the onions were soaking in.
Yup large industrial farming owned by a handful of corporations that are in turn owned by even fewer hedge funds and billionaires will cause this. Smaller farms, individually owned by actual farmers, actually care about the quality of their food and with smaller batches less people are harmed when mistakes are made. But large industrial farms? Poisoning/killing people and the small fines handed out is just the cost of doing business. A smaller farm operation couldn't allow their reputation to be harmed in this way. Larger operations have a pseudo Monopoly on the market, so if people want onions they have to do business with the people serving literally shit drenched onions.
Any other restaurant would have been closed down over this.
Any other restaurant would have been closed down over this.
What?
Jack-in-the-Box was undercooking their meat, IIRC. They infected over 700 people with E. coli. Four children died. 178 others were left with permanent injury including kidney and brain damage.
They’re still around.
It sounds like McDonald’s is dealing with an onion supplier issue. Their slivered onions used in the quarter pounder apparently come from one supplier. And apparently the issue is only with the slivered onions, not the diced ones.
This isn’t a McDonald’s issue, this is a regulatory body issue, failing to keep up inspections on suppliers. Just like the listeria outbreak hitting store shelves.
Are these the ones trump touched while he was working the drivethru without a food handler’s card?
Ah. I knew there was a Trump comment somewhere in here.
First it was the Quarter pounder, now the oinions, when it was trumps unwashed hands all the time.
The way these food audit and recall processes work, it could very well be the JDS beef processing facility in Greely that mistreats it's workers for all we will ever know.
There is always such a lack of transparency in the public information surrounding these food poisoning events, so as to not harm our precious corporations. They just paint a narrative that looks real enough, round the recall number to something arbitrary, and call it good.
So cook them you fucks
McDonalds onions aren't setup to be cooked/caramelized. They generally don't have to be. Raw is fine if they're not covered in shit.
Their onions aren't any good, but that's a different matter.
They should look into the small mushrooms
Onion makes sense if people only infected from quarter pounders. I think it's the only burger that uses precut bagged onions instead of the stuff they rehydrate with water.
People still eat this junk food company.