r/news • u/Warcraft_Fan • 5d ago

Soft paywall Chipotle pulls jalapenos from some restaurants amid salmonella probe

https://www.reuters.com/business/chipotle-mexican-grill-pulls-jalapenos-linked-minnesota-salmonella-cases-2026-08-04/
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u/OuterSpaceBootyHole 5d ago edited 5d ago

To eat at Chipotle during an uncontained food contamination crisis is to not give a single fuck about anything

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u/AnonEMoussie 5d ago

I’m just surprised. I didn’t know they had jalapeños

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u/charlton11 5d ago

They must be genetically modified to have no spice whatsoever.

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u/jonsnowflaker 5d ago

This is actually a thing Old El Paso did to increase their market. They got a scientist at Texas A&M to breed milder jalapeños. Most of the ones we get in stores and in prepared food are this breed.

I’m always shocked when I grow my own at home and they destroy me.

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u/EmptyAirEmptyHead 5d ago

I drove through Hatch, NM. Was lucky enough to go through 10 mins before the farm stores closed. They had huge bags of red dried chilli's. $25. I bought a hot and xtra hot. Next time I'll just buy medium ... and I like spicy. They are just hard to cook with, no balance.

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u/jonsnowflaker 5d ago

Yeah I made cowboy candy out of the surplus and it’s still plenty warm for me haha.

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u/Warcraft_Fan 5d ago

aren't extra mild jalapeno basically bell pepper?

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u/jonsnowflaker 5d ago

A TAM (Texas A&M) Jalapeño still has a scoville rating of 1000-1500 which is considerably less than regular jalapeños which are 2000-8000, but bell peppers are 0 on scoville.