You know, it’s one thing to tell me not to eat romaine lettuce or prepackaged spinach.
I didn’t want to anyway, so I could greet the temporary advice to avoid them with an insincere “aw, shucks” and blithely maintain my streak of not eating beneficial greens.
But on Thursday the CDC warned against eating raw cake batter, citing a 12-state E. coli outbreak with illnesses linked to cake mix and traced as far back as February. And this is where I must confess to one of the foundational principles guiding what I eat: The Theory of Did Anybody See