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It's the day before Thanksgiving, folks. Nobody wants to be here, but we're here with you anyway,

because we have to guide you on the evening commute home or on the morning commute to work that you don't want to be at. So we will be here with you as you suffer through traffic. There is still a lot of news happening in the lead-up to Thanksgiving. We'll get to all of it in just one second. But first, let me remind you that if you are somebody who thinks about going to restaurants a lot and who eats too much prepared food, and instead you would like to cook at home, but you don't want all the work of having to go to the grocery store, come up with your own recipe, buy too much of various ingredients, and then cook it badly. Instead, you could be cooking like a gourmet with Blue Apron. Blue Aprons delivers farm fresh ingredients and step-by-step recipes to your door. Their mission is to make incredible home cooking accessible to everyone. Blue Apron does all the meal prep for you. Here's how

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Restaurants should stop serving it.

Anyone who has it on hand should throw it out and clean the refrigerator immediately.

This has always been the policy at the Shapiro household.

Romaine lettuce has never entered within our doors because this is not something that I will tolerate.

As the man of the home, I will not tolerate anything that my food eats being eaten by me. There is a food chain for a reason. Okay, and there has to be

an intermediate stop before the romaine lettuce hits my stomach. That intermediate stop is an

animal that once ate the romayne letus. The stern and sweeping advisory issued by the

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday afternoon, two days before Thanksgiving, caught many people off guard, but the agency said it was acting out of an abundance of caution after 32 people in 11 states fell sick, with a virulent form of E. coli, a bacteria blamed for a number of foodborne outbreaks in recent years. If you don't know if the lettuce is romaine or whether a salad mix contains romaine, do not eat it and throw it away. I agree, but this is the CDC saying it. Wash and sanitize the or the drawers or shelves in refrigerators where Romaine was stored. Officials said such measures were necessary while they tracked down the source of the contamination. They said a nationwide warning covering an entire food type was unusual but not unprecedented. In 2006, they did this with spinach. Peter Costell is a spokesman for the FDA. They said officials were in this case mindful of the approach of the Thanksgiving holiday. They were afraid that there would be some sort of giant E. coli outbreak. Apparently, the first E. coli outbreak was identified on October 8th, has led to the hospitalization of 13 people, including one person who developed

kidney failure, so far no deaths. Honestly, okay, when I put aside the jokes for a second,

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