Salmonella Widget
May 31st, 2009 by Mickey Panayiotakis
Word Association Time, kids:
Georgia? Peanuts. Peanuts? Salmonella. Salmonella? Widget!
“Widget?!“, you say?
Yes. Widget, I say. And I admit when I first saw it, I also thought that was an old pairing of words. I mean, it’s Widget! It hangs out with the hip crowd: social media, facebook, macs. iPhones, for crying out loud! iPhones have widgets. “Widget” certainly does Not hang out with them FDA types. But, like all us mere mortals have to pay taxes, so are mere technologies appropriated by all facets of government, and to the left you see a barely breathing example of the FDA Salmonella Widget.
Where do I get mine, you ask? Well, mosey on over to the FDA. Bring three forms of ID, a birth certificate, three passport-style photos…