Garbage in Costco

[Konrad2012]

Wifey found garbage inside a bag of TRIPLE WASHED Organic Power Greens Spinach/Swiss Chard/Kale mix from Costco.  Papers mixed in.  Was it a list or something from the processing plant?  Something someone wiped their @ss with?

 

I always put prewashed greens through the salad spinner anyways.  Could have still been missed though and gone raw into the juicer.

 

I'm going to say it for Sidewinder first.  GROSS.

 

SO don't just wash your greens, make sure to look through them as well. 

Edited August 20, 2018 by Konrad2012

[cashnocredit]

5 minutes ago, Konrad2012 said:

Wifey found garbage inside a bag of TRIPLE WASHED Organic Spinach/Swiss Chard from Costco.  Papers mixed in.  Was it a list or something from the processing plant?  Something someone wiped their @ss with?

 

I always put prewashed greens through the salad spinner anyways.  Could have still been missed though and gone raw into the juicer.

 

I'm going to say it for Sidewinder first.  GROSS.

 

SO don't just wash your greens, make sure to look through them as well. 

Yikes. Report it to Costco.

 

We buy their froze mixed veggies and green beans. Always been quite good.

[hegemony]

yuck.

 

I buy heads of lettuce not bagged bacteria breeders.

[Konrad2012]

2 hours ago, hegemony said:

yuck.

 

I buy heads of lettuce not bagged bacteria breeders.

Works great for lettuce.  Not for spinach, kale and swiss chard. 

[hegemony]

4 minutes ago, Konrad2012 said:

Works great for lettuce.  Not for spinach, kale and swiss chard. 

I just bought chard and kale at whole paycheck today. nary a bag.

 

true that spinach is tough to find.

[Konrad2012]

13 minutes ago, hegemony said:

I just bought chard and kale at whole paycheck today. nary a bag.

 

true that spinach is tough to find.

But they're still just bunches twined together, not heads.  Bunches that are handled by people who didn't wash after they took a dump, shipped in plastic bins that don't get cleaned, put onto shelves that are never sterilized and sprayed with water ever 20 minutes.   They sit on the same shelves and the same trucks that the cilantro contaminated with salmonella and listeria ships on. 

Edited August 21, 2018 by Konrad2012

[cashnocredit]

Bugs are good for you*. Helps build immunity. There's some evidence that our relatively sterile environment is a possible cause of increased allergies kids have.

 

*Sometimes, that is.

[Konrad2012]

On 8/20/2018 at 7:15 PM, cashnocredit said:

Bugs are good for you*. Helps build immunity. There's some evidence that our relatively sterile environment is a possible cause of increased allergies kids have.

 

*Sometimes, that is.

Yes, two different things though.  I agree that our sterile, antiseptic world has lessened our exposure to things.  There's millions of strains of benign bacteria.  1000's of strains of beneficial and/or symbiotic bacteria.   

 

Then there's the 100 or so pathogenic bacteria.  Exposure to gonorrhea, chlamydia, anthrax, listeria, the plague, salmonella, shigella, tetanus, botulism, cholera, tuberculosis didn't work out so well for people 200 years ago before our aseptic environment.  And they don't work out so well for people today without intervention.