On Wednesday, November 21, 2018 at 3:40:36 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2018-11-21 3:27 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> > On 11/21/2018 3:20 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> >>
> >>> I saw that news report.Â* All I could think was it's a good thing I
> >>> don't like lettuce.
> >>
> >> It is pretty useless stuff. My wife makes salads and I will eat them,
> >> mainly for the other stuff in them, but I could live without lettuce.
> >>
> >>
> > Lettuce is a base for the other stuff to mix with.
>
> I would rather have a real Greek salad that any lettuce salad. I cringe
> thinking back to the times I naively ordered Greek salads and they came
> withe lettuce in them. There is not enough lettuce in a Nicoise salad
> to be a problem, or to be missed.

Tastes vary. I occasionally have a salad of nothing but lettuce.

> > Sure would hate to be a Romaine lettuce farmer this year though.
> > Probably a lot of good stuff wasted.
>
> Maybe I should be paying closer attention to the story, but I am
> assuming that, rather than being some sort of epidemic, it is only a
> small number of acres or farms affected. There would not be time to
> check them all, so they will chuck it all rather than take a chance of
> facing a huge lawsuit.

It quite likely is one grower or one processor, but until the source
is identified, better safe than sorry.

Most people have no idea where their lettuce came from. The romaine
that I buy lists an address for the grower, but that's just where
their corporate headquarters are.

Cindy Hamilton