American dependence on the meal staple that is salad took a serious hit today when California-based produce company Tanimura & Antle announced a recall of Romaine lettuce. The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, while conducting a random contamination test (which also allows for other possibly affected random brands to go untested), selected said brand only to find that infamous form of bacteria known as Salmonella had reared it’s ugly head. So far there have been zero cases of food borne illness reported in connection with product, no doubt the result of a nation teetering on the brink of obesity who, when asked to point out romaine lettuce, mostly just motions with a confused shrug.







