On Apr 18, 7:51*pm, "Jean B." > wrote:
> Mark Thorson wrote:
> > zxcvbob wrote:
> >> The selection of plain frozen vegetables at the grocery stores is
> >> getting smaller and smaller because they are being pushed out by
> >> "microwave ready" bags of vegetables. *One of my favorite frozen vegs is
> >> french cut green beans (they are great in stirfry) but most of the
> >> stores have stopped selling them altogether to make room for microwave
> >> bags of peas or broccoli or whatever (in addition to the regular bags of
> >> peas and broccoli that haven't totally gone away yet.) *It's also
> >> getting hard to find frozen okra that's not already breaded.
>
> > A related topic is bagged salad greens. *On America's Heartland
> > yesterday, they said pre-washed, pre-cut bagged vegetables
> > went from nothing 15 years ago to being 70% of the lettuce
> > market today.
>
> > I'm old. *I remember when potatoes had dirt on them.
>
> Those bagged greens are a nice source of salmonella.
>
> --
> Jean B.

Not if you wash them first.