Commercial Raw Cookie Dough Addicts, We Are Soooo Sorry!

Who among us does not recall "licking the beaters" when Mom (in her quaint apron) had been baking?
Who has never run a finger inside a bowl used for making, say, muffins, and licked off the uncooked dough residue?
We know you're out there!
Now--- acknowledgment of this happy and innocent indulgence many years ago led to the creation of ice creams containing, supposedly, "cookie dough." As in Ben and Jerry's Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream.
(In the course of my intense research for this post I came across this hilarious, off-the-wall rant from 2004 on "How Much (C.Dough) Is In Cookie Dough Ice Cream?")

Anyway!

Across this great nation,  people who stand in front of their fridges inhaling uncooked c. dough straight from the packaging of Nestle's Toll House Cookie Dough  are getting freakishly ill and tummy achy from E.coli bacteria contained therein. 25 have been hospitalized.

Please do not do this, even with another brand of c.dough. This is a revolting and no longer hidden habit of yours, and  we regret that you have become really, really ill from pursuing it. 

You might look into purchasing and consuming library paste,  if it still exists. Oddball kids at school used to eat it, back in the day.

Comments

[Rose]

Hooooray for real food.

Homemade meals.
True baking breads, cakes and cookies.
Fresh vegetables.

Even here in downtown Belgium ready made or pre-cut meals/salads/veg/meats are on the rise. Where there was a minute section at the supermarkets some years ago, now the section is huge. And mostly single portions.

[Foodie]

I had a young friend staying with me for several weeks and he never failed to drift towards the kitchen in the evening saying "That smells so good." It was always the same ( "real")thing--local fresh garlic, olive oil, onion.

[hog roast]

That takes me back some years!

I used to love it when my gran was baking. I would try to get my hands in to everything and would get slapped more than once, but it was worth every minute!

[KathyF]

You can eat my raw cookie dough. Nothing in there remotely resembling salmonella.

And, library paste was apparently consumed via the black market in Leningrad during the siege, if you believe the very good book City of Thieves. It kept many alive, but the books didn't survive, sadly. (You should read it, as it has a major foodie theme.)

[Foodie]

Tks, Kathy F--will seek out that book.
We recall reading that the plant pathologists/researchers responsible for safeguarding Russia's seed potatoes at the Institute established by Nikolai Vavilov did not eat them during the siege, amazingly. Vavilov, a renowned breeder and collector, died in 1943 in one of Stalin's prisons.