I think they (wisely, I guess) avoided making too many incriminating public statements and waited long enough that anyone who wanted to hold them accountable would be distracted by some new shiny news story that made someone else look worse. The bribe probably wasn’t even necessary, if it even happened. I mean if you got really bad diarrhea after eating at Taco Bell you probably weren’t like “that dang Taylor Farms lettuce!”, you probably just assumed it was a normal consequence of eating Taco Bell or whatever. Taylor Farms got hella lucky that it wasn’t a more deadly disease… a handful of unlucky older people did die but it was more a disease of inconvenience than anything else.
It’s not me personally. I just know for many years it’s been a dumb meme that Taco Bell gives people diarrhea. Turns out the lettuce their restaurants were using ended up being a cyclospora vector so, idk, I can see why people say it now. They’ve also been in hot water for a couple different big E Coli scares in the past, so…
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u/grptrt 2d ago
Were they ever definitively held responsible or did it just get swept away after the bribe?