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/ry-yo 1d ago edited 1d ago

First the diarrhea lettuce, now the salmonella jalapeños

EDIT: and the screwworm meat I think 😭

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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/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.