How Does Listeria Get Into Donuts?

@Heartlander Except that donuts don't have any dairy in them. Source: I have worked at Winchell's in high school and friends with one location's head fryer for decades.

@NativePortlander1970 Thanks. I was thinking of the nearby Klrispie Kream (sp?) where you can see the donuts being made,a d where they also make cream filled pastries and other similar products, and was thinking that some used dairy ingredients. Watching the donuts and other pastries go through the hot hot oil still make me wonder how germs can survive, but the same workers may be working both ends of the production process, and maybe with cream filled pastries the cream may not be injected until after the hot oil fry, or the cream inside the pastry doesn’t get hot enough to destroy the bacteria, or maybe spores are hearty enough to survive.

Working at a donut shop in HS sounds like a dream job. :)

@ninalanyon Sorry this post went over your head. Move along.

@cherokeepatti It didn't go over my head. My response was simply a poor attempt at levity. Sorry.

I've seen similar reports over the years about listeria and salmonella contamination on similarly large, or worse, scales in much more central foodstuffs like chicken. It seems to be a pretty common occurrence unfortunately.

@ninalanyon A lot more common than it used to be. I got sick one time after eating a cantaloupe, an Athena melon grown in Florida. I was younger then but it hit me hard. If it happened at my age now I’d landed in the hospital. Listeria grows in soil and cantaloupe rind is the perfect vector for it. I wanted to know how it could get into processed food, donuts are deep fried or baked so that would get the germs.

@Fairydust Or recalling food to remove from the food supply. Look at what’s happened to eggs and other foods. The price goes up and up.

@cherokeepatti

Yet they make millions more in profit, it’s all planned to put us in poverty.

@Lilnonames

Funny how the bird flu only affects chickens that we eat lol 😜

@Fairydust yup sad but true

@NativePortlander1970 doubtful. I used to read crime books and there was a dermatologist who murdered his wife. He was draining cysts and boils and taking the pus out and culturing it in agar-agar gel and then bought cream-filled eclairs and injecting it in the eclair for his wife to eat. She ate it and died, the doctors couldn’t figure out how she had gotten sick. Got remarried and tried to murder his second wife by sideswiping a concrete barrier on the passenger side and was bragging to her about the time he did it how he killed his first wife. The second wife survived to tell about it.

@cherokeepatti Numerous bakery items use vegetable based products, including soy oils, which are cold pressed during processing, soybean plants are very close to the ground, I know, my uncle grew them and I walked enough mile long rows pulling weeds.

@NativePortlander1970 My uncle grew soybeans on the farm among the other crops.