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Post by Deleted on Apr 13, 2019 20:24:11 GMT -5
Cut melon linked to US salmonella outbreak recalled INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indianapolis-based company has issued a recall for melon products sold in 16 states after being linked to a salmonella outbreak. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Friday that the recall includes cut watermelon, honeydew and cantaloupe produced by Caito Foods LLC. The fruit has been sold under various brands or labels at Kroger, Walmart, Trader Joe's, Target and Whole Foods. The affected states are Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, West Virginia and Wisconsin. Health officials advise consumers to check packaging to determine if the melon was distributed by Caito Foods, and, if so, not to eat it. They advise stores to pull the products from shelves. Authorities say 93 people have been sickened, 23 of whom were hospitalized. No deaths have been reported. Salmonella Carrau is described as rare. Symptoms include diarrhea, fever and abdominal cramps. View Comments www.syracuse.com/product-recalls/2019/04/cut-melon-linked-to-us-salmonella-outbreak-recalled.html |
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Post by Clipper on Apr 14, 2019 7:13:12 GMT -5
I see those little plastic containers of cut melon in Krogers, but I refuse to pay the price for it. Kathy loves melons of all kinds so I buy WHOLE melons and she cuts them into pieces and puts them in a container in the refrigerator. She often will have a dish of melon with her breakfast, or we will eat it in the evening for snack. She loves cantaloupe. I hate it because it smells up the entire refrigerator and will permeate everything in there, including the milk. I buy her the small round watermelons. They are just big enough to give her a couple of days worth.
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Post by kit on Apr 14, 2019 8:16:35 GMT -5
When you mention melons I immediately think of my ex-girlfriend (badoom-tsh!). 'But seriously though,' I actually do. Several years ago we were going to Webster, NY near Rochester to visit my high school friend Dave. While there he mentioned a variety of cantaloupe that the Amish people in Pennsylvania had developed that smelled and tasted much better than anything you could buy in a store, and every week they brought a truckload up from PA which were available at local farm markets in the Rochester area. We decided to go and buy a few and bring them home.
No kidding... if you cut into one of them at one end of a room, within 30 seconds people at the other end of the room could smell it, and the smell was awesome. They tasted even better. So naturally, some farmer from the Rochester area planted the seeds and started growing them in western NY and now they're available without trucking them up from PA. However, you generally won't find them in stores... only in certain farm markets. Sadly I don't remember the name of the variety.
I found that when wrapped in saran and placed in a sealed container in the refrigerator, the aroma of a ripe cantaloupe doesn't permeate other foods. It's not usually a problem because they're so delicious that I eat them so quickly they don't have much of a chance to get put into the refrigerator.
Like Clipper, I prefer to buy a whole melon and cut it myself... much like I prefer to cook my own meals so I know what's in it and how it's been treated.
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Post by Clipper on Apr 14, 2019 9:41:31 GMT -5
I used to buy cantalopes, cut them in half, and ex and I would each eat an entire half a melon with a scoop of vanilla ice cream in it. Yummy. If I buy cantaloupe now, I pretty much intend to eat it that day rather than to have it smell up the fridge.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2019 10:58:46 GMT -5
I wonder if the farmers market up here that has the Amish farmers has the melons Kit is talking about. I rarely eat cantaloupe. I like watermelon but they are two heavy to carry unless I make a special trip to just buy one of them. Walmart a few years ago had these personnel cantaloupe's they were even smaller that those round bowling ball varieties they sell. You know farmers could make it a lot easier by growing the new square cantaloupe and watermelons. Easier to carry.  |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2019 11:00:49 GMT -5
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Post by Clipper on Apr 14, 2019 11:49:17 GMT -5
Watermelon is one of those vines that take up a lot of room in a garden. I would rather grow squash in that space. During the summer months watermelon is cheap enough to buy rather than grow. That is also why I am cutting back on the number of tomato plants this year. When they are in season a person can buy bushel for canning and save all the labor of growing them, and it also makes an entire bushel available and ripe at the same time, rather than picking a few here and there until you have a small batch to can. The same is true for sweetcorn. We have a farmer down the road that grows wonderful sweetcorn and plants it in in several plantings a few weeks apart so he has fresh corn for a longer period of time and it doesn't all ripen at the same time. I have no reason to waste time and space growing our own corn.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 14, 2019 12:32:57 GMT -5
When I was in Virginia many years ago visiting a friend he took me to another property they had and the neighbor had a huge corn field. I never was in one of those fields so I ventured in. Oh my I felt like I was going to die. Claustrophobia I guess. All those huge stalks of corn really disoriented me. Glad I got out fast.
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Post by clarencebunsen on Apr 14, 2019 15:06:45 GMT -5
I tried to grow watermelon once in Minnesota but they take up way too much room. I was concerned when I read the headline because we bought both watermelon and cantaloupe yesterday (does anyone else call them musk melon or is that a Midwest thing?)
Anyway we always buy whole melon. My grandsons would eat an entire melon between them if we let them.
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Post by Clipper on Apr 14, 2019 15:49:10 GMT -5
My parents always call cantaloupe musk melon. That name is not used here in the South. I haven't heard it in years. When we lived in Arizona when I was a young lad, my dad used to buy watermelons for something like a buck apiece. We would sit at the picnic table in the back yard and eat the entire melon. We always spit the seeds on the ground and when it was time to mow the grass there was always watermelon sprouts poking their heads up out of the grass. The looked much like a cucumber sprout. Just a stem and two leaves. The farmers used to sell them out of the back of a pickup truck parked in our shopping center or on a street corner. They would have the entire bed filled to the top of the side rails with straw between the layers, and they would sell out. Watermelon is exceptionally delicious and refreshing when it is over 100 degrees outside, and that was almost any mid summer afternoon in Phoenix. All this talk about melons prompted me to buy a cantaloupe when I went to the store earlier. Kathy is scooping it with a melon baller and putting a container of melon balls in the fridge for her to snack on. I guess if she doesn't eat them promptly I will be putting melon scented and tainted milk on my cereal for the next couple of days, haha.
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Post by BHU on Apr 14, 2019 18:32:54 GMT -5
Anyone remember the old saying "she swallowed a watermelon seed" & what it means? Lol!
Back to melons. I much prefer honeydews over cantaloupe but I will purchase a cantaloupe once in a while. I may plant some mini watermelon this year. I have some seed that I planted about 10 days ago in pots but they haven't germinated yet. It seems like every time we buy one of those 20 pounders half of it ends up spoiling, as the wife doesnt really go for it. For me you can't beat having sone nice cool melon on a warm summer night.
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