Chicago was finally recovering after Rachael Ray inflicted the 'Chicago Dog Salad' on an unwary
country shortly before the 4th of July picnics. Just looking at this culinary nightmare can eliminate one's appetite for hours--what city would appreciate being associated with this gastronomical train wreck?.
And now there's this; at the 'Taste of Chicago' food festival last weekend, food poisoning was so widespread that by now over 600 hundred people have reported that they were one of the unlucky chowhounds. And of those that have been tested for food poisoning, Salmonella was usually the culprit. A fewer number were hit by a variant called Salmonella Heidelberg--which can occur, apparently, when one eats dodgy chicken while wearing lederhosen.