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Dept. of Homemade is Better Anyway: General Mills Jeno and Totino Frozen Pizza Recall, e. Coli

Who amongst us is so gastronomically pure we do not keep a frozen pizza in the house for One Of Those Days? If you have kids is a virtual certainty. And this is not from some Ma & Pa Poodlinski outfit either: General Mills is blaming an "outside supplier" of pepperoni for this recall of Jeno and Totino frozen pizzas. So far 21 cases, with, gulp,

Eight of the cases were reported in Tennessee, with the other cases found in smaller numbers in Kentucky, Missouri, New York, Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Wisconsin and South Dakota.

We can't get our governor invited to the Great Drought State Conclave, and now this. Tennessee is the Rodney Dangerfield of states. But I digress.

This is evidently one of the nastier varieties of e. coli, with that many that sick. But note the ducking, bobbing and weaving in the phrasing here: