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This will be a funny one to explain to grandkids one day (startrek.website)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/funny

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I think I'm going to continue washing apples, cucumbers, things like that.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I was a farmer; you should. Especially potatoes and fruit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

There's not even any dirt on potatoes. They must pressure wash them, (you also don't eat them raw).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I worked in a produce department for a bit and the lettuce definitely had dirt and the occasional bug in it before we trimmed and rinsed it

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (3 children)

You should know that lettuce is not a potato then.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Mind = Blown

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Source?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lettuce is also the most common vegetable to be infected by salmonella.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

All lettuce or certain varieties?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I still give them a good rinse and rub with a sponge.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

I was doing it before COVID. I don't know who's hands have touched it or where those hands had been prior to touching it. I'm not gonna get fucked up by Typhoid Mary picking her ass and then touching something I plan to eat.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Always wash the dirty dozen!

Strawberries
Spinach
Kale, Collard and Mustard Greens
Peaches
Pears
Nectarines
Apples
Grapes
Bell and Hot Peppers
Cherries
Blueberries
Green Beans

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Well that's pesticides. My list is related to warehouse gunk, rats, people coughing on them, etc.

*PSA: to get rid of pesticides soak in baking soda bath. They break down.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It’s not just pesticides. You can get residual germs from bad agricultural practices, which is why we get E. coli and listeria outbreaks from vegetables.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yes but the "dirty dozen" specifically refers to pesticides.

[–] CanadianCarl 1 points 10 months ago

John Oliver torched a head of lettuce, while talking about that. https://youtu.be/Za45bT41sXg

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I'm aware, just adding to the conversation is all

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You didn't wash fruits and vegetables until Covid came?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

When I got home from the store and in soap and water? No. It was a rinse off with water when you ate it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Okay. Phew. I was hoping no one just ate everything without a rinse. But soap? Really?