Fast food chains pulling onions from menus as source of deadly E. coli outbreak investigated

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More fast food chains are removing raw onions from their menus after a deadly E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s quarter pounder burgers. the parent company for Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC says it has proactively removed fresh onions from menus at select locations after McDonalds named them as the likely source of the outbreak. McDonald’s said Thursday a California supplier was the source of the fresh onions used in the affected burgers.

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13 Comments

  1. Not only onions..beff .to ok..dont eat mcdonald's. Ok danger

  2. I felt myself getting sick when I ate raw onions from tuna sandwich does that count too?

  3. Yes! Down with the devil root! haha

  4. " leave that garbage processed food" alone its not good.

  5. Why was E coli even in the onions in the first place?

  6. Trump caused the outbreak with his dirty diaper

  7. Gordon Ramsey said. The onions are raw!!!!!. You contaminated the kitchen!!!!.

  8. How odd about a week after trump is at mc Donald's this happens!? Only one person has died! Omg it's a pandemic!

  9. Oh god now all the people who think onions get toxic in the fridge are gonna be vindicated for years.

  10. I wonder how The Onion is gonna respond to this

  11. Yeah blame vegetables

  12. This is unfortunate

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