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

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago (3 children)

You should know that lettuce is not a potato then.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Mind = Blown

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Source?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

All lettuce or certain varieties?

[–] Riven 7 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years 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 2 years ago

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