I didn't mind the lettuce or the spinach, but now the careless farmers are messing around with my favorite vegetable:
The scallions suspected in the E. coli outbreak linked to Taco Bell came from a Southern California grower, an official with the company that washed, chopped and packed them for the restaurant chain said Thursday.
Ready Pac Produce, the sole supplier of green onions to Taco Bell restaurants in the New York, New Jersey and Philadelphia areas, stopped all production of scallions at its Florence, N.J., plant, which was visited Wednesday by federal food inspectors.
Scallions? Pretty fancy word for such a humble food. I'm probably revealing more about my heritage than I should, but there is no better snack in the world than cold green onions right out of the refrigerator, accompanied by corn bread right out of the oven, both washed down with a glass of buttermilk. Mmmm, good eats!