bagged store bought salads...

Yipes - thanks for confirming my suspicions. We can get such a product here in non-recyclable No. 5 plastic tubs.

oh, sounds yummy, uh-huh :-O

I heard they aren't clean, either. So easy to grow.

A couple of years ago I had a job interview with a vegetable processing company and yes I've seen this with my own two peepers. The stench of chlorine at the last wash was incredible and while the packets always state that you must wash the veg inside thoroughly a great many people see them looking clean and don't even show them the tap.

in the u.s., the package says "ready to eat" and "triple washed"

i assume you passed on that job!

I did! I left during the lunch (it was a group, day long interview). One of the managers was extremely rude to me too, the other managers saw it and tried to persuade me to ignore it but I'd seen enough to know I wouldn't work for them even if they offered me the CEOs salary.

one word, ORGANIC, and all that nastiness disappears. It's the only way to grow!

I buy bagged Organic lettuce from Trader Joe'S. Does anyone know if there is a problem with the Organic brands.
I am living in Germany this summer and buy lettuce at the Organic Market. The German's would not dream of bagging lettuce and I have been buying regular lettuce and washing myself, it does taste better, but it also goes bad much quicker.

i buy earthbound organic bagged grreens, they have many varieties.

the method i described was for conventional, organics cannot be wahed in chlorine, they cost more because they don't store as long. but when i don't have any in my garden, earthbound farms brand is available at our United SUPERmarket...