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Making the connection...

Since I live in Minnesota and everyone here has to have a connection to everything going on, I have my own connection to the spinach e-coli sickness that is going around.

Last weekend, just about the time that packaged spinach started killing and illing (is that a word??), I had to make a salad for a dinner at a friend's house. I went to the St. Paul Farmer's Market and bought some fresh spinach for the salad. I was kinda thinking that it didn't really look like spinach you get in the store and I suspected that it was some strange leafy veggie that translates to "spinach" from it's native language but really has to be cooked or something in order to be edible. I ate a couple of leafs and wasn't completely sold that it was what I wanted.

I went to the grocery store to get a couple of things and I went to the produce aisle to look at the bagged spinach and decide if I should get that instead. I stood there for a minute, and then decided to just deal with what I had and if it was gross, then it was gross.

So there you have it...I almost bought a bag of spinach that may or may not have come from an e-coli contaminated packaging plant and may or may not have made my friends and me sick. There's your connection (to rip off the guy from Blue Collar Comedy Tour with "There's your sign...").

posted by Steph @ 9:14 PM