Posted on 12/24/2014 8:17:50 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued an order that millions of Americans will likely find impossible to carry out: stop eating raw cookie dough.
“Avoid raw or partially cooked eggs or foods containing raw eggs, such as cookie dough,” USDA advised in an email over the weekend. cookie1
Carrying out that simple 15-word recommendation would radically change millions of lives, from families who routinely bake cookies and invite the kids to scoop batter out of the bowl, to people who scarf down pre-packaged cookie dough, to everyone who eats cookie dough found in ice cream.
Simply put, it’s not immediately clear that America is ready to take on USDA’s mission. But it’s also unclear if it’s necessary — there is something of a debate over whether it’s safe to eat cookie dough, or whether the risk of getting salmonella from raw eggs is too high.
Some, like FoodBeast.com, say it’s “actually really hard to get salmonella from eggs.” The site has an article up noting that bakers routinely eat batter and never get sick, and say the trick is in making sure the eggs are refrigerated.
And cookie dough found in ice cream is pasteurized, making it safe to eat, according to various online food experts.
But many still note the danger, and the 2009 recall of raw dough from Nestle that got dozens of people sick from E. coli. A Las Vegas mother died in 2013 of E. coli after eating raw cookie dough.
EatRight.Org, a group of food and nutritional professionals, sides with USDA, and says people must “resist the cookie dough temptation.”
“Sampling the batter while baking holiday treats may seem like as much of a tradition as singing carols or decorating the house, but eating batter or cookie dough that contains raw eggs can lead to salmonella poisoning,” the group warns.
“It’s especially important to teach children to not eat cookie dough containing raw eggs, as young children are more vulnerable to food poisoning,” it said. “Before you begin cooking with children, discuss the Cookie Rookie Pledge together to help them understand what they can do to stay healthy and happy, and enjoy their cookies too!”
The pledge says kids should wait until cookies are “fully baked” before eaten. “Steer clear of licking spoons, bowls and beaters!” it said.
“My momma always said that eating cookie dough would give me worms.”
She was right. It’s a tapeworm that comes in flour or cornmeal contaminated with rat feces (which is common, but at a low level).
See Wiki:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymenolepis_(tapeworm)
Ping.
“Then all the government has to do is take “cookie dough” off the SNAP, WICs and EBT approved charges.”
Well I dunno. Around here ya can buy lottery tickets and crack cocaine aplenty with them.
I know they’re Commies and all, but I will quote Rage Against the Machine......”F... YOU! I WON’T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!”
Well now, I think it's time to disband the USDA; who's with me?
Yeah....I know it well here where I live. Seems like nothing is off the table.... I was just as us old farts say “cracking wise.” :0)
I also agree with your suggested sequence of events. -)
I’ve only got one question for the Nanny State. Doesn’t raw cookie dough help reduce global warming? Wouldn’t eating raw cookie dough save energy otherwise required to cook the dough?
It’s well-known within the food industry that more than half of the refrigerated chocolate-chip cookie dough sold from the grocer’s dairy case is consumed raw.
Been that way for a long time.
Dear Benevolent Affirmative-Action Unionized Government Caretakers:
I appreciate your concerns related to eating raw cookie dough, and I will herewith cease and desist in eating cookie dough raw, and will henceforth microwave small portions of cookie dough on a plate for 30 seconds or so, until it smushes out onto the plate in gooey, sugary, molten chocolate chip goodness and safety ... Thank you for your concern for my health and well being.
Now, about that border ...
Regards,
Spodefly
Nanny State Pigs. There is nothing better in the world than Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough or licking the spoon on Chocolate Brownie Mix.
Jack LaLane used to put a half dozen raw eggs and some orange juice in a blender every morning and he was still able to do 2000 push ups when he was 90.
GET (TR)UCKED!!
Oatmeal Craisin is my favorite!!
“When will they say “stop having buttsex because you can get the AIDS”?
Good point, but that ain’t gonna happen. Not with Homo-bama in the oval orifice.
They just lifted the ban on ‘fudge-packers’ donating blood and they’re telling us not to eat cookie dough? WTF?
No word about homemade eggnog?
Idiots.
You can eat a raw egg just fine.
I love cookie dough more than I like actual cookies.
Sunny side up eggs?
That is the way I want em, unless I want an omelet.
I carefully cut the whites, separating them from the yolk.
I will then place the yellow goo on top of my hashbrown and pop em.
And other times, I will pop the whole yellow bubble goo in mouth
Re: lifting the ban on gays donating blood. Does anyone recall the Canadian Blood scandal that killed thousands during the Clinton administration? Covered up, of course, by ABCNBCCBSMSNBC. This was a result of Clinton selling blood from prisoners in Arkansas and other southern states to the Canadian government.
Stick your range free where the sun doesn’t shine!!
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