WHOPPER FANS FORCED TO EAT FISH.Byline: Catherine Wilson Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Where's the beef? The unthinkable happened Friday at 700 restaurants in the nation's second-biggest fast-food chain. Burger King ran short of hamburgers after it cleared its inventory of beef supplied by Hudson Foods Inc., the source of burgers blamed in an E. coli E. coli: see Escherichia coli. E. coli in full Escherichia coli Species of bacterium that inhabits the stomach and intestines. E. coli can be transmitted by water, milk, food, or flies and other insects. outbreak that caused more than a dozen illnesses. At a Burger King in Minneapolis, a menu written in marker displayed the day's burger-free choices. Eating in a booth, Terry Brault said he usually orders a Whopper Whopper - WarGames but settled for a fish sandwich. ``I don't think I'll come back for a while,'' he said. ``I should have gone to McDonald's.'' ``Absolutely, customers are concerned,'' said Paul Clayton For the English football (soccer) player, see Paul Clayton (footballer) For the Coronation Street character, see Paul Clayton (Coronation Street) Paul Clayton (3 March 1931 - 30 March 1967) was born Paul Clayton Worthington in New Bedford, Massachusetts. , North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. president of Burger King Corp., based in Miami. The company said all its stores would have burgers back on the menu today. The biggest burger gap was in the Omaha, Denver and Minneapolis areas. ``If I want beef today, I'll go someplace some·place adv. & n. Somewhere: "I didn't care where I was from so long as it was someplace else" Garrison Keillor. See Usage Note at everyplace. else,'' said Carl Whitte, a student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, who had a sausage breakfast sandwich A breakfast sandwich is a sandwich served at breakfast. Breakfast sandwiches typically are made using breakfast meats, breads, eggs and cheese. These sandwiches were typically regional specialties until fast food restaurants began serving breakfast. at the campus Burger King. The chain was convinced it never bought any tainted beef from Hudson and said its cooking methods are guaranteed to kill E. coli, but Burger King recalled all Hudson beef as a precaution, Clayton said. The burgers were pulled in a 28-state scramble Thursday night and Friday, but supplies from alternate sources weren't expected to reach all restaurants until today. The recall spread from Idaho to Alabama, affecting 1,650 restaurants or one-quarter of Burger King's U.S. eateries. ``This is a cruel blow,'' said Art Siemering, publisher of Trend/Wire, a food industry newsletter. ``It's quite a setback for them.'' The company lost sales and suspended a promotion for a new hickory-smoked Whopper. ``It was doing quite well,'' Clayton said. ``We have decided to stop the advertising of that product and begin the promotion of a breakfast.'' IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, The Southland has largely been spared from a recall of more than 25 million pounds of ground beef by Nebraska-based Hudson Foods Inc. Hudson recalled the ground beef Thursday and Friday after some meat was found to be infected with toxic E. coli bacteria. Officials from Burger King Corp. and Boston Market - two of Hudson's largest Southern California customers - said no local outlets were affected by the recall. Southland Burger King restaurants do not serve Hudson beef products, according to the company. Hudson ground beef is also not used in meatloaf served at Southern California's Boston Markets. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, however, said it did not know where all of the Hudson ground beef was sold in the weeks leading up to the recall. CAPTION(S): Box Box: (Color) IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (See Text) |
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