Delta’s Romaine Lettuce
Nov 23, 2018, 6:57 pm
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Delta’s Romaine Lettuce
Does it seem odd/unwise that Delta continues to serve romaine lettuce when the Us Centers for Disease Control told all stores and restaurants to stop selling it and al consumers to throw it away. On 33 from LHR to ATL the “baby Caesar salad “ was still on the menu.
Nov 23, 2018, 8:17 pm
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FWIW, I was in the BNA sky club a few days ago when the press releases started popping up in my news feed. Within 10 minutes, I could hear the DL employees were telling the catering folks to throw all the lettuce away. I thought that was a pretty good response.
Nov 23, 2018, 8:32 pm
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I ate a romaine lettuce salad on a DL flight exUSA just before the CDC announcement. So far I'm still alive and not experiencing any ill effects. One data point. It looks like the salad on my return flight will be romaine based, but I assume it's foreign sourced, from a civilized country that doesn't have so many recent contaminated food scares.
Nov 23, 2018, 10:26 pm
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the caesar salad with my d1 meal this week didnt have romaine lettuce
Nov 23, 2018, 11:13 pm
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I was on a domestic flight that had lettuce in the side salad.
The FAs didn't remove the plastic wrap from the salads and didn't serve any of them, citing the contamination scare. I was surprised catering had even loaded it.
I didn't see any of the salads to note the specific type of lettuce used in it. This was for an ex-ATL flight.
The FAs didn't remove the plastic wrap from the salads and didn't serve any of them, citing the contamination scare. I was surprised catering had even loaded it.
I didn't see any of the salads to note the specific type of lettuce used in it. This was for an ex-ATL flight.
Nov 24, 2018, 6:35 am
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I had the salad LHR-DTW yesterday and alive to post. I assumed it was from the UK since LHR is a catering station and did not think DL caters in both directions on a D1 flight
Nov 24, 2018, 7:46 am
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I was driving home from the store with two big bags of romaine when I heard the news on the radio. Could've spent that $3 on lotto tickets instead...
Nov 24, 2018, 10:53 am
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Nov 24, 2018, 12:31 pm
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I ate a romaine lettuce salad on a DL flight exUSA just before the CDC announcement. So far I'm still alive and not experiencing any ill effects. One data point. It looks like the salad on my return flight will be romaine based, but I assume it's foreign sourced, from a civilized country that doesn't have so many recent contaminated food scares.
Just a guess on my part of course.
Nov 24, 2018, 12:46 pm
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My kids' school district posted that the romaine lettuce they serve comes from a source where it's grown in very little soil, with local water in a closed loop system. I guess they are implying that it doesn't fall under the recall. Maybe the salads on the airlines are also sourced differently?