Over 160 sickened after eating at Olive Garden

[KrazyHorse]

So the point is....that terrorists might hit chain restaurants in order to increase the price of food and drive people out of business?

[Sava]

We should only be so lucky.

[asleepathewheel]

Phew

I ate at a different Olive Garden in Indy earlier this week. Oddly I would have preferred the one hit to mine, but for proximity and laziness.

[Q Classic]

Originally posted by Sava


Wow. We should get married or something. I like... had the same thought and stuff.

Yeah. We're like soulmates. Unfortunately, we both live in Chicago and not in Spain with Fez.

[Q Classic]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
How many millions of people eat at a Taco Bell, McDonald's or any other place in a given day?

You think compliance is free? Nope.
Think restaurants and suppliers are going to just absorb the cost? Nope.
Do you know how many small-time restaurants or suppliers are deciding it's too cumbersome and expensive? Me either, but many.

Go ahead and laugh, but you're paying the price and don't even know it.

So, compliance with regulations that will likely make the food less risky...

...or... eh?

How does that make him a terrorist? I really fail to see the logical jump there.

(To be honest, I'd like there to be optional compliance. You can comply with the regulations at the high cost, and get a seal of approval not unlike the UL thing, or you can not comply, still serve food, save money, but also be a lot more of a crapshoot with food safety.)

[Dis]

this is why I don't eat food. too risky. food could kill you.

[SlowwHand]

Q, I don't know about you sometimes, dude.
How does it make who a terrorist?
The attitudes expressed here are exactly of the lax nature that used to reflect air travel.

You can criticize the concern as much as you want, but it's a logical thing to do, for a terrorist. Water and food.
Dis, it doesn't have to be a restaurant. A restaurant may use lettuce, like Taco Bell, sure. Do you use lettuce at home?
Having any light bulbs coming on over your head yet?
It's not restaurants with the liability, as much as the sources supplying to restaurants, grocery stores...your home.
Frankly, I'm a little surprised at the flippancy directed to this possibility.

[Elok]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
Only if they're trots...

No, the people at OG are the ones who have the trots. I don't think there are Olive Gardens in Cuba.

[realpolitic]

Has the Health Department been less vigilant under Bush? Have they rolled back regulatons? It wouldn't be the first time that regulations failed to stop problems under him? How about the 100,000+ deaths from Vioxx and other cox-2 inhibitors?

[Odin]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
This is probably yet another example of the media dogpile. Would this story even have gotten play had there not just recently been two food poisoning outbreaks with national consequences? This outbreak is evidently localised to a single restaurant.

I fear that the whole E. coli thing is turning into another "Summer of the Sharks" incident, with the media creating a major emergency where there is none.

[Peter Triggs]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse


Only if they're trots...

Good to see you sort of bringing the thread back on topic to the peeps who ate at Olive Garden.

[chequita guevara]

Re: Over 160 sickened after eating at Olive Garden

How could they tell?

[SlowwHand]

Nm. It's all a plot.

[snoopy369]

Re: Re: Over 160 sickened after eating at Olive Garden

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
How could they tell?

That's what I asked about the Taco Bell ... I get some pretty serious tummy aches every time I eat there.

OG, I've never had a problem with. I actually consider them pretty good for a chain family restaurant. I'd eat there over Red Lobster or TGIF any day. Chiles is close, though, but still probably inferior.

Often depends on the quality of the chain restaurant one grew up with though

[Jon Miller]

I have had really different experiences with Olive Garden. The one in Laurel is ****. The one in Salem is great. The one in Newport News is OK. The one near St Peter MN is ****.

Jon Miller