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At the risk of sounding like Cathy at the height of her menstruation cycle, we just love us some raw cookie dough. Mmm. It even has its very own ice cream, which should attest to the pre-baked dessert's popularity. But, whenever we reached for the cookie dough bowl in our youth, our mother would gently remind us that raw cookie dough contains raw eggs. Raw eggs that would KILL US DEAD. So, when you eat the stuff, it's at your own risk.
Enter 18-year-old Jillian Collins from San Mateo. See, she is "among 65 people in 29 states who reported getting sick with E. coli after eating the raw dough made by Nestle USA Inc.," according to NBC Bay Area. And now, like any red-blooded American, she is suing Nestle for giving her a nightmarish case of the shits. And while people are freaking out at her for daring to sue the company while not claiming personal responsibilty, Nestle uses pasteurized eggs in their cocaine-habit-like-forming nuggets of dough. The stuff is made and marketed for eating as-is, not baking.
But what say you, righteous readers?
Oh, and here's a list of all recalled Nestle cookie products.
This just in! E.Coli, more or less, comes from fecal mater, not eggs (that's salmonella), so the plot thickens...
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But what say you, righteous readers?
I say Grover freebasing cookie dough on a toilet is the worst thing I've seen all morning.
I found it so funny that I spewed raw cookie dough all over my monitor.
It's not Grover, is it not the Cookie Monster?
And he's not freebasing, I believe his fixing to slam.
yes, it's definitely Cookie Monster.
And "the stuff is made and marketed for eating as-is, not baking"? Really? I'd be interested to see what kind of language is on the packaging one way or the other.
It advises you to bake to the stuff, yes. but... it's totally made for eating out of the package. as it should be.
Everyone knows cookie dough is best eaten raw. I'm not voicing an opinion one way or the other on the lawsuit, but eating it raw is something Nestle DEFINITELY had to have contemplated when marketing the product and should have at least had a warning regarding whatever diseases stem from eating raw eggs (I thought it was salmonella, but whatever).
I bet someone is really happy that this is all over the news.
Y'ever notice how much sad Grover and sad Cookie Monster look alike?
i want that on a t-shirt
It's a still from Family Guy.
"I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in Casablanca." Nestle blaming their customers is really appalling. As you mention, Nestle markets this with full knowledge that people eat it raw.
But more importantly, even if a person assumed the risk of eating raw cookie dough, they were assuming the risk of Salmonella poisoning (fairly mild case of the runs), not E. coli (excruciatingly painful, often causes permanent health problems, and is potentially deadly.)
E. coli comes from the intestinal tract of animals, not from chicken eggs. In less dainty words, it comes from something becoming infected with shit. (I assume Nestle's new ad campaign is "Toll House Cookies: Now with 50% MORE Shit!")
Anyone who suffered E. coli poisoning because their cookies had shit in them deserves to sue.
She's not filing a lawsuit her scum bag attorney is
She was in the hospital for a week with E Coli she contracted from Nestle's product. Her attorney could well be a "scum bag" but in this case, the attorney is right to file.
I'd love to see you with a week of bloody diarrhea (oh, how I would love it) and not do the same, in fact.
Yikes! On what basis you you claim that her attorney is a "scum bag"? Just a general distaste for anyone who went to law school, or something personal to her attorney?
I'm sure if someone's negligence (or idiocy) put you in the hospital for a week, you'd shrug it off and say "no worries, man," right? You sure wouldn't go see a "scum bag lawyer" and try to get your medical bills paid for or anything.
Everyone hates a lawyer. Until they get hurt, and then that's the first person they run whining to.
Blanket hate of lawyers makes the hater sound like an ignorant corporate tool.
Damn straight, bluecanary. Lawyerin' wouldn't be the big business it is without the steady stream of paying clients.
Actually, the plaintiff rarely pays anything. The lawyer will take a percentage of the award, thus allowing the victims access to a legal system they ordinarily could not afford.
I'm aware of that. I was referring to defense lawyers like myself. Plaintiff lawyers wouldn't exist but for the hope of a massive settlement/judgment, so they can take their 40% plus costs. I don't see that happening in a case like this, but you never know.
I know many fine attorneys. In fact, some of my best friends are lawyers. Stand up people. A++
I presume she will have to prove that it was the lovely raw dough that made her ill to get that big payday.
Ugh. There's rarely any "big payday." Generally, after the company draws it out with idiotic arguments like "she shouldn't have eaten our product," it will end up paying her medical bills and giving her some multiple (usually one or two times the medical bills) for pain, suffering, and emotional distress. After her medical bills are paid, her attorney is paid, and the experts are paid, she'll be lucky if she's left with a few thousand bucks. If you're willing to suffer in a hospital for a week with colitis for that pittance, let me know.
But to answer your question, yes, E. coli has a "fingerprint" and it's usually pretty easy to confirm whether it's the same strain as the shit that somehow made it's way into Nestle's cookie dough.
In this day & age, people STILL eat raw cookie dough??? Did she hitchhike to the market too?
In this day & age, people STILL eat raw cookie dough??? Did she hitchhike to the market too?
What the hell does that mean? Yes, it's 2009 and I eat raw cookie dough. But not this chickenshit (oh, maybe that's too literal in this instance) buy-it-from-the-store dough. I make my own cookies; maybe half the dough makes it to the oven.
I agree. That's gross. My own homemade stuff rarely makes it to the oven, though, raw eggs be damned. Besides, food poisoning = weight loss thus wiping out all the calories of cookie dough I consume.
Word, girl.
I am just saying, in general, the bigger the factory, the dirtier it is. If you feel comfortable eating raw eggs from the bowels of a multi-national conglomerates cookie dough factory, have at it. Bad decisions beget negative consequences occasionally.
I have yet to encounter any evidence that Nestle "marketed" this product as an uncooked consumable. Even if they did/do, it doesn't take a microbiologist to know its risky behavior.
My eggs come from my neighbor's chickens ("Chickens? In Pacifica?") Not that you really had any way to know that. Just FYI.
Nestle (and every other company that makes cookie dough) puts a warning on its packaging that says "raw cookie should not be eaten".
What more can they do, bake them for you? Make you pass an IQ test before you can buy them?
But yeah go ahead and sue, it may inadvertently help us clean up our food chain.
You do realize that E. coli does NOT come from raw eggs, right? The presence of E. coli, which comes from human or animal shit, is not something that any consumer would expect in cookie dough. So Nestle can put whatever warnings they want on the package, but that doesn't absolve them of liability for failing to prevent shit from somehow getting into the dough.
Oh, and your self-righteous indignation is wildly uninformed. Pick up any decent cookbook (my favorites are written by Judy Rodgers and Alice Waters) and you'll find a recipe for aioli (or mayonnaise). Each of these recipes is made with . . . wait for it . . . raw eggs.
I suppose you think that anyone who's ever made or eaten homemade aioli "needs to pass an IQ test"?
off topic: i just made zuni's roasted chicken IN A PIE TIN. came out perfect. blew my mind.
Oooh, I like that topic better. I'm making Zuni chicken tonight (for the third time in 2 weeks)! Yum.
No, I think that anyone who sues after doing what the package says you shouldn't needs an IQ test. Hence the wording of my post.
Lots of things have raw eggs, I'm aware, including caesar salad dressing (which also has warnings on many menus). One does not need an IQ test before eating anything or everything with raw eggs. We agree on that.
And finally, as I alluded to in the original post her suit may get at the root cause which as you pointed out had nothing to do with raw eggs.
Jillian Collins is a retard and needs to be slapped upside the head. I bought the same exact tub of cookie dough and ate practically half of it raw while waiting for the other half to bake. Methinks that Ms. Collins needs to stop eating while on the can and wash her hands every now and then. Opportunistic dolt.
Grow up. You picks your poison and you takes your shits (if necessary).
The last thing we need is another warning label or skull and crossbones on another product.
Give the lady a free coupon.
Provided feces and E Coli doen't pop up in Nestle's products in the future, there should be no need.