
Those of us who love lunch can't catch a break lately. First, the hard boiled egg recall from a couple weeks back had us eyeing our chicken and egg salad sandwiches suspiciously. Now, there's another potentially dangerous ingredient lurking in some of our sandwiches: sprouts! Well, raw clover sprouts from certain Jimmy John's locations to be exact.
Raw clover sprouts from the sandwich chain have been linked to an outbreak of E. coli food poisoning in five states. So far there have been only 12 cases reported in Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, and Wisconsin, and, thankfully, no one has died (although two had to be hospitalized). Of course, Jimmy John's shoulders most of the blame for serving contaminated sprouts to its customers, but this incident seems as good of a time as any to ask a really pressing question I've had for a while now:
When are people going to stop eating raw sprouts?
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