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Remember the Jamba Juice hepatitis A scare? And remember how we said there were gymnasts competing in a national meet in San Jose a few weeks ago? Well -- you guessed it -- it turns out the gymnasts might have been exposed to the virus. The hepatitis A carrier made smoothies for the gymnasts during the meet and in the trade shows outside. She claims she used good hygiene and food safety practices throughout (wearing gloves, for instance), so the chance of infection is fairly low, but they're warning gymnasts anyways. Hey, while we're on the topic of gymnasts, does anyone else remember the movie ? So good.

Uh oh! Did you stop by the Jamba Juice on Lincoln Avenue in Willow Glen in San Jose any time during the first two weeks of August? An employee may have given you hepatitis A. Turns out one of the food handlers didn't realize she was sick and she might have given it to you if she didn't wash her hands properly. If you were at the JJ from August 9-16, get a shot. If you were there from August 1-8, watch for symptoms (diarrhea, fatigue, jaundice), because the shot won't work for you anymore. Jamba Juice says that the store has been thoroughly cleaned, no one has come down with symptoms, the chances of getting the disease are small, and if you do come down with hep A, they'll reimburse you. Hep A is fairly rare in San Jose -- there were only 25 cases last year and for this year, only 6.

-- Paranoia, feeding faux stories, and NYT's Laura Albert (AKA Miss Leroy) article. Depressing is right, Rita. [CultureBlog]

You know that crazy idea Jake McGoldrick had for instituting tolls in downtown San Francisco as a way of easing congestion? And you know how it was quickly dismissed as yet another string of things that makes San Francisco what it is-- completely nutty? Well, New York's Mayor Mike Bloomberg just came up with the same proposal to ease congestion in New York.

Yikes -- that's not the kind of boost we wanted in our Jamba Juice! Our local healthy smoothie company recently discovered that one of its supplier's strawberries were possibly contaminated with the listeria bacteria.

going on besides the District 6 race (except for you, commenter poormojo!). Well, David Kiddoo, the write-in candidate for District 2 (Pac Heights, the Marina) running against incumbent Michela Alioto-Pier, has graciously agreed to submit to an SFist interview and tell us what they're worrying about up there north of Market. Thanks, David!

Before we get started this week, we have to break from a completely reporter, "these are the blogs that were" voice to the voice of an actual food blogger. Someone with very exciting, very bad for you, very guilty pleasure type news. The type that can get you into drunken, one-in-the-morning type trouble. "Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle" type trouble. When we first moved to the Bay Area In 'N Out burger joints were still a rarity. In the past few years they've been dotting up more and more, which we love. Barney's is great and all, but sometimes you don't need 1/3 a pound of meat, sometimes you just need a double-double animal style. And there's the key: animal style. Now, for those of you who don't know animal style, don't feel so bad, it's not not on their menu. (A point Mighty Foods talks about in regards to Jamba Juice. This website goes into more detail on In 'N Out's items.) But, like Mr. Pibb and Red Vines, animal style is crazy delicious. Animal style burgers come with lettuce, tomato, extra spread, pickles, grilled onions, and mustard fried into the patty. Now, here's the kicker --which close readers of that last link will have no doubt already picked up on: You can get animal style applied to your fries. You don't get pickle and mustard, but you do get cheese, grilled onions and extra of the secret sauce. We can't recommend animal style fries highly enough. Everything that is bad and bad for you, but tastes so right. They will be the best fries you've ever eaten. Even better than the garlic fries down at the ballpark. (Which suckafree doesn't like anyways.) Go, go now, and feel the power of the dark side.