[russmerle]

Warning for eastern VA...

Tropical Smoothie Cafe patrons are at risk for Hepatitis A due to contaminated strawberries supplied via Egypt...

Link:
https://www.google.com/amp/wtkr.com...rs-at-risk-for-hepatitis-a/amp/?client=safari

My wife is getting the vaccine now since she eats it pretty regularly. Uncle Sam gave me the vaccine a few years ago but my wife is 23 weeks pregnant and we don't want to pass it on to the baby. Got to love American capitalism. Buying strawberries from Egypt?


Russ

 

[JEFFJP_N_JJ]

Warning for eastern VA...

Tropical Smoothie Cafe patrons are at risk for Hepatitis A due to contaminated strawberries supplied via Egypt...

Link:
https://www.google.com/amp/wtkr.com...rs-at-risk-for-hepatitis-a/amp/?client=safari

My wife is getting the vaccine now since she eats it pretty regularly. Uncle Sam gave me the vaccine a few years ago but my wife is 23 weeks pregnant and we don't want to pass it on to the baby. Got to love American capitalism. Buying strawberries from Egypt?


Russ

Damn! hope all goes well Russ.
Jeff

 

[32639]

Egypt? What's wrong with us? Between California,Texas and Florida we should be having strawberries coming out of our ears. Globalization is just not right for our country.

 

[JEFFJP_N_JJ]

Egypt? What's wrong with us between. California Texas and Florida we should be having strawberries coming out of our ears. Globalization is just not right for our country.

You are so right guys. I work ag here and strawberries are grown around in the desert even!

 

[nSquid]

Already had Hep-A - at Boot Camp, San Diego, 1974.

I don't donate blood.

 

[russmerle]

In and out; we got her the vaccine. I think everything should be fine but just wanted to take the precaution.

Never eating there again though that's for sure...

Russ

 

[smoothy8500]

What's wrong with globalization? Americans want it cheap, and they want it 12 months out of the year. Wow, grapes in January? Of course, name any South American country. Southeast Asia grows most seasonal fruits year round. Some of us more Liberal shooters eschew regular produce for "organic" choices. Well, China is a large supplier of "Organic" labeled produce (shhh, it's only labeled organic....they really don't verify). Pay attention and ask questions about your food choices. USDA only periodically does batch tests on imported produce. This means once in a while they pull a carton off the boat and test it for pesticides and bacteria. Then again, American companies don't do any better. Remember Blue Bell ice cream? Or how about those wild pigs pooping on strawberries in Texas?

 

[Magnumdood]

Don't buy your honey from china

China has a HUGE thriving market here, in the United States, selling what they call "honey", when in fact it is mostly sucrose and some thickeners to make it look like honey. I've been buying honey from a guy who has his own hives. I didn't know how damn good honey was until I tasted real honey. The crap from overseas is almost tasteless to me now and I won't touch it. We don't need globalization.

 

[nSquid]

Globalization is here, get on with life. I can sit here and text message a friend in Australia, real time, from Iowa. The Earth is FLAT.

America exported jobs to China, dirty jobs, crap jobs that the MBA-soaked liberals wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. America also exported a lot of the pollution that those jobs generated. Ha ha, with the good comes the bad.

As time goes by and we don't have some huge global conflagration to knock down human population in double digit percentages then more and more people will be added to the over-educated, under-skilled ranks. Day will come you won't be able to get designer shirts made for a buck then shipped somewhere else to make a profit. Even as robotic ships using sail power make it even cheaper to move masses of "stuff" world-wide.

What happens then? Everyone is a robotics type; builder, maintainer, programmer, developer. Jobs like patching roads: gone to the robots. Heaven forbid but mentally handicapped people will be in high demand to do the "meanial" jobs.

BTW - the 'trophy wife' of this dystopia will be the woman who can program and operate the fancy CNC sewing machine in the spare bedroom and make you a set of jeans for whatever the price of materials and save you the $250 price tag at Walmart. That's right, $250 a pair, because those liberals worldwide won't do that kind of work - it's demeaning and below, well below their level of degreed education.

Even though if you handed them a right-hand threaded bolt and a left-hand threaded nut they would die of old age before figuring out why they won't go together.

Just my opinion, subject to change without notice.

 

[russmerle]

That escalated quickly... Good thing a can build a house, sew jeans, shoot, hunt, repair electronics and have fore thought enough to support my wife's education. Now that we've added a physician to the family we'll birth our own child, raise her on home grown veggies, hunted game and teach her the fine art of not giving two $!%#! to the opinion of lib tard democrats and make this country great again. Bring on the robot pavers; I'll live on an over grown dirt road.

 

[smoothy8500]

Sorry I sent it down the wrong path. What you went through is unfortunately a common everyday risk. Whether the berries weren't properly washed by the worker at the shop that blended your smoothie or at the factory that processes them in bulk, everyone is at risk of an inattentive worker regardless where the berry came from.

 

[nSquid]

I'm sort of sorry I added to the escalation, however, the USN gave me Hep-A in boot camp due to bad food handling practices. It was the biggest outbreak until a fast food chain had the problem in Pennsylvania (?).

Hep-A is about as lethal as a bad cold, something like 1 in 10,000 die. Sick as a dying dog for 5 weeks, toxins in your blood turn you yellow, but a darker yellow than Homer Simpson. For 2 years I was mosquito-proof, but that wore off, too.

Life is a 4 letter word.

 

[russmerle]

No apologies needed. We are just nervous about "worst case" since she is pregnant. Few years ago we downed about 3/4 of a tub of raw Costco cookie dough over the course of a month not realizing there was a "voluntary recall" due to salmonella. Neither of us got sick and we both picked at it with a tablespoon a bit at a time straight from the tub. Lol we were super human or just lucky; more likely the ladder. But this was just a bit different since its our second try on a lil one and we've made it this far.

These 23 weeks have been nerve wracking. From Zika to Hep-A and previous trials hangin over us; you just want to beat the four letter word of life into submission with a crow bar but it just ain't having it.

 

[hurryinhoosier]

Egypt? What's wrong with us? Between California,Texas and Florida we should be having strawberries coming out of our ears. Globalization is just not right for our country.

Not to mention Washington State and the entire Midwest. The morons from MBA programs need to have this crap inflicted on them. Maybe then they'll make better decisions.