Wanna see the ditches they come from and the house septic tank outlets just “upstream”?
Oil, garlic and sodium make everything in life acceptable 
Add in sugar and alcohol and you know my life philosophy.
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I’m pretty sure all the romaine we get here comes from California, so…
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Wait, what’s romaine in Mandarin? 大陸妹？A菜？
The Mrs has just informed me that all the romaine we get is local.
So just read the bag.
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What. So it’s not even really in our regular rotation!
It’s actually pretty popular these days. You can get it all over.
Some is, the one from Costco is not. Wellcome can change. Some is from hydroponics ‘farms’.
I always buy locally grown Romaine lettuce. TBH the American is a bit better IMO, crispier and not so pale. However, how they get them like that and keep them that way on the journey over is worrisome.
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This reminds of my dear mom, who, bless her should, bathes lettuce in Clorox because she read someone somewhere found a slug in one… and then she wonders why I avoid eating her salad.
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Bleaching things is pretty common in food 
sprouts are a commin one as they are pretty easy to have bacterial problems. Sulphurs, lye etc are used in really a lot of things these days.
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Back home on the farms, at the river, at the cabin, on the boat, and other places where water may be suspect for some reason like hasn’t been used very often, people occasionally put bleach in the water 6 to 8 drops I think it was.
And sometimes add to the water for cleaning the vegetables but not all the time. I think it depends on the source and where it’s been and how dirty it might be.
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Ya thats a good point. Lots of places treat water with chlorines. Even taiwan in some areas that have piped water that “can be used as drinking water” i smell it here on the piped homes after the gov shuts down for maintenance then resumes it.
Sounds bad but i think this is a case where a little bit of unhealthy prevents a whole lot of unhealthy.
No farmer is going to treat his irrigation pond though!