Time to test your knowledge. Are the following items real or made up?
- Aliens
- Bigfoot
- Nessie the Lochness Monster
- Abominable Snowman
- Salmonella
Hopefully you answered “real” for all of them except one. Salmonella is the biggest conspiracy ever. It’s not real. Let me explain….
Raw Cookie Dough
I’ve been eating raw cookie dough for years, and I’ve never had salmonella.
Salmonella isn’t real. It’s just something parents made up, so there would actually be dough left to make cookies. And because parents don’t want their children all hopped up on sugar running around like mini-maniacs.
The Name “Salmonella”
Say “Salmon.” Now say “Ella.” It should have sounded like “Sam-on-Ella.” Want me to use it in a sentence?
Look behind the bleachers, and you’ll see some Sam-on-Ella action.
When you’re talking about the fish, you don’t pronounce the “L.” Suddenly, when you’re talking about the bacteria, you pronounce the “L.”
That smells fishy to me. Sounds like someone tried to kill two birds with one stone catch two fish with one worm by stopping children from eating raw cookie dough while correcting the pronunciation of the fish.
The Symptoms (and My Potty Mouth)
You know what happens when you contract this so-called salmonella? You get faucet butt. That’s it. Then it passes.(Bwahahaha! It passes!) So how do you know if you had faucet butt from salmonella or if you got the runs from something else? You don’t know.
In conclusion, if you have children, perpetuate the salmonella myth because that means more raw cookie dough for you.
January 23rd, 2012 at 9:05 am
GREAT FUNNY POST, YOU GO GIRL! PARENTS ARE FUNNY LIKE THAT, JUST LIKE WHEN THEY SAID THAT IF YOU MAKE A FACE IT WILL STAY LIKE THAT, OR IF YOU SIT TOO CLOSE TO THE TV IT WILL HURT YOUR EYES. LOVED THE POST, AND IT HAS BEEN QUITE AWHILE SINCE I HEARD THE PHRASE “FAUCET BUTT”, NOW THAT’S FUNNY!
January 24th, 2012 at 8:45 am
Exactly. Parents are always lying to kids.
January 23rd, 2012 at 9:14 am
Bahahaha, I always want more cookie dough for me. If Salmonella is real, I have definitely built up a tolerance.
January 24th, 2012 at 8:46 am
That’s an excellent point about building up a tolerance. Maybe it is real, but I have a tolerance, too…or a stomach of steel.
January 23rd, 2012 at 9:20 am
The pronounciation thing is interesting. Here, we don’t say the l in either salmon or salmonella…
But I did take a cake class once and our cake teacher told us that salmonella hasn’t existed since the 70s in eggs. But because the FDA still says you can get it from raw eggs, she isn’t allowed to give out any baked goods with raw eggs in the icing or whatever.
I’ve never been able to verify whether that was true.
January 24th, 2012 at 8:47 am
So basically the FDA is just being overly protective. Makes sense.
January 23rd, 2012 at 9:23 am
How does one successfully paddle down the great river menses without cookie dough in their survival pack? Insanity!
January 24th, 2012 at 8:48 am
I don’t even need to be on the river to need cookie dough.
January 23rd, 2012 at 9:23 am
Oh my gawd! I think you are right, Thoughtsy. I have been eating cookie dough FOR YEARS, and never got this so-called salmonella. A conspiracy is right!! I will perpetuate the conspricay with my kids, though. More cookie dough for me!! Yum.
By the way, I had a dream last night and you were in it (not like that!). We were going somewhere, but I had to go to some meeting at a church first and you came along. When we got there (late) the priest/minister was all huffy and moody about us being late and you told him, “I do not like your tone right now” which made him shape up. I think I might need to bring you with me everywhere I go if you have that effect because there are many people who’s tones are just not right in my life on a daily basis.
Also, I kept calling you Thoughtsy in the dream, even though I know your name and that is weird in person. But then, for some reason, I thought your name was Barbara (I’m sure in some part because I had just read Wag the Dad’s recent post about his wife), so I started calling you that. Then, we met someone else who called you Antoinette, and I asked you if that was your real name, and you said yes.
Sorry I just completely took over your comments. But it was weird and I was thinking about it when I saw your post. Wacky stuff in my head. Don’t try to figure it out!
January 24th, 2012 at 8:49 am
I do tend to have that effect on people. Usually I don’t even have to say anything. I just raise my eyebrows. Ask Kiefer, it’s scary.
Antoinette…I like it. You can call me that from now on if you want.
January 23rd, 2012 at 9:25 am
My pet Salmon is named Ella. Though it turns out she’s a boy.
Sigh.
January 24th, 2012 at 8:50 am
How do you even tell if a fish is a boy or girl? Coulda happened to anyone.
January 23rd, 2012 at 9:32 am
“Faucet Butt”? That’s hysterical!
I always eat cookie dough. You may be on to something here……
(now watch reports of people getting salmonella are going to be popping up all over the place and the connection is going to be your blog).
January 24th, 2012 at 8:52 am
OMG! What if I jinxed it?!?! Salmonella everywhere and it’ll be all my fault!
I wish I could take credit for “faucet butt,” but it actually came from a coworker. She has two kids so she talks about poop a lot. I guess that’ll be me once I have kids.
January 23rd, 2012 at 10:11 am
Raw cookie dough rocks..take that salmonella!
January 24th, 2012 at 8:53 am
Yummy!
January 23rd, 2012 at 10:25 am
You are going to be the best mom ever. Yay for Boo and Radley! ‘Cause I don’t let MY kid have the dough only because I don’t want to share.
January 24th, 2012 at 8:54 am
I’m pretty sure that Boo and Radley like baking with me solely because I let them lick the spoon and sample the dough. Kiefer chooses to perpetuate the salmonella myth.
January 23rd, 2012 at 10:26 am
Is it wrong that this post makes me hungry??
January 24th, 2012 at 8:55 am
Nope. The purpose of this post was to get people to start baking cookies and send me some. Dough or cookies, I’ll take either.
January 23rd, 2012 at 11:04 am
I’m with you 100%! I’ve been eating cake batter and raw cookie dough for the beatter part of 20 years and I’m alive, well and have never got sick. Key observation of the pronunciation. Smells fishy…Bahahaha
January 24th, 2012 at 8:56 am
Smells fishy! BWAHAHAHA!
January 23rd, 2012 at 11:21 am
I have eaten raw cookie dough my whole life and then there was the Toll House premade cookie scare of 2009 and now I do a double take before eating it. But let’s be honest, going to the oven EVERY 10 minutes when you can just eat it raw? Too much effort.
January 24th, 2012 at 8:59 am
I remember the premade cookie scare. I think that was staged by Pillsbury to knock Toll House down a notch.
January 23rd, 2012 at 11:24 am
I like the Sam-on-Ella theory myself. 🙂
January 23rd, 2012 at 11:31 am
I’ve never gotten poisoned by cookie dough – but that’s because cookie dough knows I love it. It would never hurt me so.
January 24th, 2012 at 8:59 am
Good point. Cookie dough has feelings, too.
January 23rd, 2012 at 11:54 am
I mean, has there ever been a case of someone getting it from eating cookie dough? I don’t ever remember reading anything! Liars! I will continue to eat my raw cookie dough and laugh in the face of danger!
January 24th, 2012 at 8:59 am
We’re all risk takers here!
January 23rd, 2012 at 11:56 am
When I was growing up, my mom was very careful about raw eggs — but she’d let us eat raw cookie dough and cake batter. So for years I just assumed there was be something in sugar and flour that counteracted whatever it was in raw eggs that made you sick.
January 24th, 2012 at 9:13 am
That totally makes sense. Sugar is just awesome like that.
January 23rd, 2012 at 12:29 pm
If you Google Sam on Ella action, I’m willing to bet you get nothing about cookie dough.
January 24th, 2012 at 9:13 am
I’ll take your word for it.
January 23rd, 2012 at 12:52 pm
Too funny. I let my kids lick the bowl from cookie dough. But I get a full spoon’s worth. I love my kids so much I’m willing to risk salmonella for them.
Signed,
Spin Doctor
January 23rd, 2012 at 1:13 pm
A lot of “fear” is used in the media. Salmonella can kill the elderly and the very young, but actually, it’s the dehydration that is the culprit. The same can be said for “West Nile virus” which most infected people recover from. I think the problem lies in that a lot of less dangerous things are touted as “killers” and we interpret it to be the same danger as say “Ebola”, an actual killer. If it isn’t the Swine flu, it’s the bird flu, or the mad cow disease. We run scared a lot.
January 24th, 2012 at 10:02 am
I think it must have been a slow news day when they came up with Salmonella. You’re right. Salmonella definitely shouldn’t be on the same level as Ebola.
January 23rd, 2012 at 1:25 pm
Salmonella may be a myth, but I’m pretty sure you’ll get sick from seeing Sam on Ella action.
January 23rd, 2012 at 1:37 pm
So true. Cookie dough ice cream has appeared on the scene in just the last 10 years. If you could get sick from raw cookie dough, wouldn’t the ice cream manufacturers have to call it Salmonella ice cream?
January 24th, 2012 at 10:12 am
False advertising!
January 23rd, 2012 at 2:17 pm
I support this theory. It is genius.
January 23rd, 2012 at 3:57 pm
you guys are wimps…cookie dough indeed. You think Rocky cared about sam and ella while downing his breakfast of champions? slurp ’em raw, I say.
January 24th, 2012 at 10:13 am
But I need sugar and chocolate with my raw eggs.
January 23rd, 2012 at 4:07 pm
I’ll take my chances, cookie dough is too delicious to deny. I’d be more concerned with raw chicken, something that DID give me food poisoning. Dessert hasn’t turned on me yet.
January 24th, 2012 at 10:14 am
And may dessert never turn on you.
January 23rd, 2012 at 5:29 pm
You are so very awesome! I just love this post. I’ve been eating raw cookie dough (and my favorite, raw brownie mix) for years. Never been sick.
January 24th, 2012 at 10:14 am
Pretty much any raw dessert mix tastes yummy!
January 23rd, 2012 at 5:57 pm
I think it’s more dangerous NOT to eat cookie dough. You need to perform quality assurance throughout the baking process. It’s the responsible thing to do.
January 24th, 2012 at 10:16 am
Precisely. You have to make sure the cookies are ok.
January 23rd, 2012 at 7:13 pm
I’m on it! This post is password protected right? I mean, they can’t look this up or anything, can they? Crap!
January 23rd, 2012 at 8:01 pm
Mircobiologist Says: This alleged Salmonella likes to (in evil scientists’ warped imaginations) hang out on the outside of egg shells. Make your own cookie dough, and simply dip the eggs in a mild bleach solution a few minutes before you crack ’em open. Enjoy your cookie dough safe from the boogie men of the Illuminati, and, bonus, you can still lie to your kids!
January 24th, 2012 at 10:17 am
I think I have to take my chances. Otherwise I’d risk spilling the bleach into the cookie dough.
January 23rd, 2012 at 8:55 pm
I’m a HUGE raw cookie dough eater! mmmmm.
January 24th, 2012 at 12:21 am
Honestly, I don’t care if salmonella exists. I will always risk faucet butt for raw cookie dough. I mean, duh.
January 24th, 2012 at 10:17 am
Me, too. Some things are worth the risk.
January 24th, 2012 at 7:33 am
I think they pastuerize the eggs now, or radiate them. Which is good to know, should you ever want to take on the Rocky Challenge, and crack a dozen raw eggs into a glass and drink them 😉
January 24th, 2012 at 10:18 am
That will never happen. I need the chocolate.
January 24th, 2012 at 3:58 pm
You make a valid point. I’ve eaten raw cookie dough my entire life, and it has never made me sick. PS – strawberries on mint yogurt = icky
January 31st, 2012 at 6:24 am
I did have salmonella once. It was horrifically painful. Only one upside: Best Diet Ever. I lost 12 lbs in a week.