Going dough nuts
If you're wondering why our country seems so bizarrely fearful, here's the answer: We absolutely cannot understand that risk is inherent in everything, even things that are outrageously safe, like eating raw cookie dough.
Recently, thanks to an off batch of General Mills flour that sickened 42 people nationwide (none of whom died), the Food & Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control warned us, yet again, not to eat dough. They did not just say, "Get rid of that bad batch of General Mills flour" (sold under the brand names Gold Medal, Signature Kitchen's, and Gold Medal Wondra). They said, basically: Don't eat raw dough, because dough contains raw flour, flour comes from the fields, fields are not antiseptic and, therefore, you could end up very sick.
