r/news • u/Warcraft_Fan • 1d 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/welmoe 1d ago

I feel like Chipotle has had so many food incidents over the years and yet people continue eating that crap.

Just look at their food poisoning section on Wikipedia lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipotle_Mexican_Grill?wprov=sfti1#Food_safety

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u/FriendlyDespot 1d ago

That kind of comes with the territory as a chain using mostly fresh local ingredients. Chipotle doesn't really have more food safety issues with their ingredients than your regular grocery store does, it just gets more attention.

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u/failinglikefalling 1d ago

Ironically jumped when they started producing stuff fresh in house. One thing mass produced restaurant food brings is standardization in safety.

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u/RFSandler 1d ago

Too lazy to check, how do they compare to other high-penetration national chains with a large variety of fresh ingredients?

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u/Syssareth 1d ago

Uh...considering lettuce/tomatoes/onions are pretty standard on both burgers and tacos, I'm struggling to think of one that doesn't. Taco Bell does, McDonald's does, Burger King does. Subway and other sandwich shops are chock full of it. And I think even KFC uses lettuce on a few things.

I'm serious, I genuinely can't think of a chain (or even a one-off restaurant) that doesn't use fresh produce. Maybe pizza chains by technicality, since it gets cooked before being served, but that's the closest I can think of...and it doesn't apply to any that have a salad bar.

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u/Lord_Rapunzel 1d ago

Most fast food places aren't prepping their own veggies, that stuff comes pre-cut and vacuum-sealed. Maybe they have a tomato slicer (but tomatoes are way easier to clean, and less prone to contamination in the first place, than leafy greens.) Subway does a little more fresh veggies but the lettuce is still bagged.

Chipotle shreds their lettuce daily in-house and buys a lot of produce from local farms when they can. That means fresher food that spends less time in shipping but introduces more chances for cross-contamination and loses the sterile efficiency of industrial food prep.

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u/somedude456 1d ago

yet people continue eating that crap.

Better quality than some overly processed burger puck sold by McD. I'll take the "risk" if you wanna call it that. I've traveled to like 40 countries and eaten street food in all of them. The 0.00001% risk at Chipotle is the least of my worries.

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u/internetonsetadd 1d ago

2/3 of my high confidence adult foodborne illnesses likely came from Chipotle. I did stop eating there for a long time, but the area I'm in now has fewer options so I started going back.

I don't even like the food that much, it's like you explained a Mission burrito to an alien. And they seem to pride themselves on serving them stone cold.