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Article #5868Re: Dates
From: lucy
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 06:54
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 06:54
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I've read somewhere that rats crawl around on bananas, in the boxes they're packed in. Face it.. nothing is clean anymore, and everything has cooties. I say we start washing the bleach thoroughly when we get it home from the store lucy :) "GarySport" <garysport@aol.comjknnot> wrote in message news:20040313014041.03173.00001437@mb-m23.aol.com... > Kroger has the best price ($3.69/lb) on these huge sweet dates called Medjool > dates in the bulk produce section. As I was enjoying some last night I got to > thinking--no telling where these were grown, who picked them, and under what > sanitary conditions (or lack of) for the hands that picked them. I wash other > fruits and vegetables, but am wondering if I should be washing these dates? I > think it would ruin them to wash the whole bunch in advance; maybe I should > just wash the few as I eat them. I've never gotten sick before from not > washing them, but I got to wondering...
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