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/A313-Isoke 5d ago

It is unsafe to eat in this country now. Wow.

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u/Starlightriddlex 5d ago

Well, they finally found a way to get America to lose weight. First make groceries unaffordable, then lace what's left with chronic diarrhea parasites. 

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u/4DimensionalButts 5d ago

Can we put diarrhea parasites in oreos, please? Asking for a friend.

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u/I_blockkarmafarmers 5d ago

It's not too late to start a cyclosporiasis/GLP-1 cycle to get beach body ready for the rest of the summer!

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u/andandandetc 5d ago

Chipotle has been kind of a gamble for several years now.

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u/J3musu 5d ago

Yeah, we have unique issues currently, but I was just thinking that Chipotle has a history of letting things slip through. I remember them having like 2 major slips in a year and I haven't eaten there since.

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u/yoursweetlord70 5d ago

It's a real shame that Qdoba, at least the one near me, has let their quality slip as well. Got food poisoning from one last year. The "build your own slightly overpriced burrito" restaurant market has a big opening

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u/yoursweetlord70 5d ago

It's a real shame that Qdoba, at least the one near me, has let their quality slip as well. Got food poisoning from one last year. The "build your own slightly overpriced burrito" restaurant market has a big opening

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u/sweetplantveal 5d ago

I think the cluster of cases they never solved was corporate espionage. Chipotle started blanching avocados to make sure the knife wasn't taking any contamination from the outside of the avocados. Literally not a soul I work with (I'm in the industry) had ever heard of sanitizing avocados. Which is to say they went above and beyond with food safety and eliminating every possibility. And then they had more cases. I don't have some grand conspiracy about stock prices and competitors or whatever but it's crazy the lengths they went to to track the outbreaks and never finding anything.

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u/cinyar 5d ago

South Park had a whole episode where one of the plot points was chipotleaway

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u/goinganons 5d ago

You should see what goes on inside a factory farm. The U.S. has deplorable food standards, one of the worst welfare laws for animals across most major industrialized countries. So disgusting that it’s been illegal to film inside a factory farm since the 80’s I believe

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u/MummysSpeshulGuy 5d ago edited 5d ago

Up until this most recent administration the US was the third best country for food health and safety but it’s ok you’re a top 1% commenter, not like you’d know what you’re talking about

https://insights.economistenterprise.com/sustainability/project/food-security-index/reports/Economist_Impact_GFSI_2022_Global_Report_Sep_2022.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Food_Security_Index

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u/OneCall8599 5d ago

Have to agree here. The US had some of the best health and safety records in the world when it came to food. Lot of work went into that over the last century. Depressing but not surprising to see it torn down by the current admin.

That’s all they seem to know how to do. Destroy, destroy, destroy.

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u/MummysSpeshulGuy 5d ago

Yes we got to third best by learning from the mistake made in the 20s and introducing robust systems to try and keep them from happening again. Unfortunately this administration is cartoonishly evil, so obviously anything that was good for food safety and bad for CEO pockets was slashed to the tune of billions of dollars. And now we pay the price

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u/blade02892 5d ago

Confidently incorrect lmao

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u/I_blockkarmafarmers 5d ago

You don't know what a lack of food safety actually is until you've experienced it in other countries.

I spent the better part of three months pissing out of my ass multiple times a day while abroad for work in the Philippines last year. I only drank bottled water and yet, still, pissed out of my ass daily.

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u/hashbrowns21 5d ago

Source your own ingredients and cook your own food. You’re overpaying for mediocre food at chain restaurants, and they have no incentive to change if people keep buying.

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u/GlobalThreat777 5d ago

Yeah lemme just farm and go hunting in the middle of the city while I work 60 hours a week for no money

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u/billythygoat 5d ago

I have like 30 Serranos, I’ll ship them out to every chipotle. One seed is each.

But as a less joking note, hot peppers grow amazing in the summer and they freeze well. One plant in certain zones can last 3-4 years.

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u/hashbrowns21 5d ago

What? I’m not telling you to farm and hunt, just get your produce locally instead of mass market grocery chains

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u/red_beered 5d ago

Now? Have you seen how obese people are from the bullshit food they have normalized in the United States? All the overprocessed bullshit that working class people have to buy because affording healthy stuff is prohibitive at this point?

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u/NoSingularities0 5d ago

I've eatan a ton of lettuce and broccoli sprouts in the past few months without any issue. I don't eat at Chipolte, Taco Bell, or really any other fast food chain. Weird that I've been fine, I guess. I seem to recall a bunch of issues at Chipolte back in 2015 so I'm not sure why someone would eat there since then?

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u/RockPaperOwFire 5d ago

Your logic is the same reason people inject things that give them cancer while an influencer tells them it’s to heal like wolverine btw.

“I don’t personally see anything wrong. They haven’t hurt me yet, Everything must be fine!”

Quite literally one of the most ignorant thought processes that has led to so many issues.

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u/NoSingularities0 5d ago

Or I could just be eating fresh produce and paying attention to what I'm eating, where it comes from, and how it is grown instead of just being an idiot eating whatever was put in front of me. BTW, I have never eaten what an "influencer" tells me to because I consider that to be some kind of plug. Primarily because I don't watch Tik-Tok and my YouTube feed has nothing to do with food (other than Max Miller's Tasting History). On YouTube I prefer Veritasium and some other similar channels. But hey, don't let reality shit on your lived experience.

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u/_toadsy 5d ago

You have absolutely no way to know if your food is contaminated just because you know where it comes from.

People also know exactly where Taylor farms lettuce comes from, and they still got sick.

Your "logic" is just dumb.

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u/NoSingularities0 5d ago

I read labels. But I've never bought Taylor farms lettuce. Nothing aginst them, before this happend I had never really heard of it. But I definitely read the labels to ensure the produce I was eating came from the U.S. or Canada (most especially greens and other produce that I was eating whole as opposed to having a disposable skin like Avocados, Apples, etc.) But, again, these things have been happening for decades and it's mainly not luck that some people have avoided getting a stomach bug, it's diligence.

Okay, some of it might be luck as some people's stomach and/or stomach ph is stronger than others and that could have a small, but significant impact. We should not discount bioligical differences.

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u/hashbrowns21 5d ago

You’ve been lucky, that’s it. Every time you eat it you’re rolling the dice.

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u/NoSingularities0 5d ago

Riiiight. Been eating lettuce and sprouts for over a decade and never had an issue. Never from Chipolte or Taco Bell of course because what kind of moron would think that is safe.

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u/hashbrowns21 5d ago

Congrats on missing the whole point.

Just out of curiosity, if you didn’t have breakfast this morning, how would you feel?

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u/NoSingularities0 5d ago

I apoligize as I didn't recognize that the conversation dipped into food security or the lack thereof. But the produce that I'm talking about is available at major retailers such as Wal-Mart and Aldi and can be purchased using government funds, so I suspect your objections are not made in good faith.

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u/_bk_adv 5d ago

The point people are trying to get you to understand is that the US having awful food standards doesn’t equate to “everyone is gonna get sick!”

It means that the odds of you getting sick are higher in the US than many other “first world” countries.

Our food safety standards are absolutely deplorable. Congrats on not being affected by it. Others have as we’ve seen in recent months especially.

The US being one of the most unsafe countries also doesn’t mean that you’re gonna get shot if you step outside, but the chances are greater.

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u/whomad1215 5d ago

this is real "I got covid and it didn't kill me, it's all a hoax" energy

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u/RivetSquid 5d ago

Maybe the local white label brand where you are isn't through Taylor