This dead bat in a salad mix is your food safety nightmare come true
Two diners in Florida were munching on a prepackaged salad, perhaps enjoying the crispy crunch of lettuce, when they stumbled upon a strange ingredient. A weird crouton? **. Some ultra-GMO vegetable? You wish.*
It was a bat. A dead bat. A dead bat was in their salad.
Fresh Express recently recalled some salad mixes sold at Walmart stores after the unlucky customers found a winged creature plopped among the leafy greens.*
The pair had already started eating some of the salad before they found the bat. **t gross e**ugh? Well, turns out the bat was in such deteriorated condition that when U.S. health officials tried to test it in the lab, they couldn't definitively determine if that bat had rabies, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Saturday. Read more...