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Article: Some restaurants pull green onions off menu; But hepatitis scare hasn't hurt grocers' sales
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- Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- November 20, 2003
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Restaurant servers hear it all the time when taking orders --
"hold the pickle" or "hold the mayo."
Now some restaurants are insisting that customers "hold the green
onions."
Since a deadly outbreak of hepatitis A in western Pennsylvania
this month was linked to green onions, some local restaurants have
stopped cooking with them.
Carlos & Charlie's and TGI Friday's recently announced that none
of their restaurants are including green onions in dishes.
A Carlos & Charlie's manager, Russ, who did not want his last name
to be used, said the restaurant has replaced green onions with red
onions in its recipes.
"It's a small thing to fix and doesn't make a big difference (in
taste)," Russ said. ...