I am a slave of habit, ritualistically repeating the same comfortable routine most days. One of the more enjoyable habits was my daily spinach salad, brimming with tomatoes, cucumbers, and other healthy vegetables. Eat a complex salad a day and they say you can you live to be at least 80.
But then spinach was removed from my life, contaminated with E. coli. I was devastated; iceberg lettuce is not spinach. As I grudgingly munched on watery lettuce, I dreamed of the day I could eat spinach again, in salads and omelets, steamed on the side of a chicken breast. I was Rain Man without his K-Mart underwear.
As if matters could not get any worse, wonderful news out of the FDA:
Less than a week after the Food and Drug Administration lifted its warning on fresh spinach grown in California’s Salinas Valley, a popular brand of lettuce grown there has been recalled over concerns about E. coli contamination.
Great, how am I supposed to eat a salad now? Rain Man just got thrown out the window; now I’m Linus without his security blanket.
--Eugene

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