I would like one of your sandwiches but I've just eaten.  Not mushroom left

Think it is Spanish Cucumbers.Imported into Germany.......Buy UK Cucumbers, you should be anyway, least then they can speak the language when you sue them for killing you off.............

Knowing the UK farming industry they probably wash the E Coli off by pissing on them on the way oot the door.

I wondered if peeling them would stop it....???

Faith in "Buy British"....love it.....

Stops indigestion.....

 

So do I.  I just have a great deal of contempt for a great many British farmers.  It's a high wire act but I just about pull it off.

 True.... and  for that reason I always do peel them..

"Most of the deaths have been in northern Germany. The E coli pathogen has been identified on cucumbers imported from Spain but it is unclear if they were contaminated there, during transport or in Germany. There are 36 cases of suspected E coli in Sweden, all linked to travel in northern Germany. A small number of cases have been reported in Britain, Denmark, France and the Netherlands, all linked with travel to Germany."

 

 

Sounds like the contamination probably happenend in Germany.

So, homegrown (UK) cucumbers should be okay.

 

It's a good excuse for postponing a diet.

I just texted a few pals in HH. They are mainly vegetarians. Everyone is being very careful.

I remember the days when veg was sold loose and dirty(Spuds,carrots etc)Everything is now washed and wrapped in plastic.

 

I boycotted Morrisons when they took over Safeway after walking in and discovering they were shrink-wrapping single red peppers.  WTF is the point in that?!  It's already got a ****ing skin.

Asda isn't too bad they do sell loose peppers,tatties etc.I never shove the peppers into poly bags or the carrots,I just plonk them on the conveyer belt at the checkout.

oh bugger, I forgot about this - there was cucumber in the salad I ate at lunchtime

 

Ditto.  Just daft when you see someone pick up 2 jacket potatoes and put them in a plastic bag - which will then go in another plastic bag at the till.

(what's the other plastic bag at the till?) The Germans have discovered that it is a different strain of e coli to the one found on the cucumbers.

Small plastic bag in veg section, carrier bag at till.

Is it safe if it's not taken orally? 

Where did you read/see that  please GJ??

Blizzie

 

On that note....

 

It was on the 5pm news on R2.

The Germans say that the e coli causing the illness is a different strain to the one found on a few cucumbers.

The Spanish reckon it's caused 'em 170 megapoond damage and are threatening to sue.

Get yersen a nice cotton bag that you can use again and again.

 

I'm usually on me bike so just sling it all in me back pack. 

Thanks GJ.....  and, if it isn't their cucumbers,  I am not surprised that the Spanish are annoyed....

 

E-Coli outbreak....women more affected.

 

 

some in UK ill

and 3 in USA got E coli-theyve just come back from Europe

Germans now admitting it's got nowt to do with Spanish Cucumbers etc.Spain is not amused as their veg etc is abandoned.

Have they found out the cause, or are they blaming it on the Courgettes?

As I understand it, it's currently a uniquely German outbreak (all cases reported in other countries are of people who've recently travelled from Germany). Sounds like they need to look closer to home for the source...

I agree Eugene..... you would think they would be able to find a common denominator....

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Indeed! One should also insert the line, "Wash and cleanse all salad vegetables and soft fruit."

Praise the Lard.

 

At least it isn't salad. 

 

 

Those tomatoes are really giving me the pip 

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Tartar....

 

I hope for your sake they don't end up tracing the infection back to a sauce-bottling plant, though...

Investigations now centre on a Luebeck restaurant.