Aug 20, 2011 3:49 PM GMT
Because anytime there's a story about bacon, it should be posted here on RJ...
http://www.ktvu.com/news/28910975/detail.html?cxntlid=cmg_cntnt_rss
Just a clarification, they're not changing the menu to remove the bacon from the beans, they're just changing the menu to make it clearer the pinto beans have bacon in them.
The senior editor at MAXIM magazine is the guy who got the ball rolling, and is going through Twitter hell for saying anything about it...
http://consumerist.com/2011/08/tweets-get-chipotle-to-change-menus-to-show-pinto-beans-cooked-with-bacon.html
http://www.ktvu.com/news/28910975/detail.html?cxntlid=cmg_cntnt_rss
KTVU-TVBERKELEY, Calif. -- Chipotle said it would change its menu after customers found out about a secret ingredient, bacon, lurking in some of its beans.
At a Chipotle restaurant on Telegraph Avenue near the UC Berkeley campus numerous people were surprised to hear that the restaurant’s beans were not only not vegetarian, they're not kosher.
One of Chipotle's main ingredients in pinto beans is a small amount of bacon, according to the company's website...
Muslims and kosher-practicing Jews, even some Christians don’t eat pork, so, they couldn’t eat Chipotle's pinto beans...
The restaurant’s menu currently says nothing about bacon.
People who ask for vegetarian items are told that the pinto beans have bacon, so they should have the vegan black beans.
KTVU spoke with a Chipotle spokesman Thursday afternoon and he said the company will be changing its in-store menus to say that the pinto beans are made with bacon.
According to the company, this change will happen in the next few months.
Just a clarification, they're not changing the menu to remove the bacon from the beans, they're just changing the menu to make it clearer the pinto beans have bacon in them.
The senior editor at MAXIM magazine is the guy who got the ball rolling, and is going through Twitter hell for saying anything about it...
http://consumerist.com/2011/08/tweets-get-chipotle-to-change-menus-to-show-pinto-beans-cooked-with-bacon.html
Seth PorgesI have eaten at Chipotle an average of once a week for more than a decade. In total, the number of times I have visited various Chipotle restaurants probably numbers in the hundreds. Virtually every time, I order the same dish, with the same type of beans: Pinto.
Yesterday, on a visit to Chipotle, one of the employees revealed to me that the Pinto beans have bacon in them.
Me: "Seriously? Nobody has ever told me that before."
Her: "Really? Well we're supposed to tell customers there is bacon in it."
Hundreds of visits, more than 10 years, and not once have I ever been told this. This would not be a huge deal, except that I do not eat bacon for religious and cultural reasons, and have unwittingly consumed it hundreds of times over the past decade. I have a hunch that millions of other non-pork eaters have likewise been consuming bacon at Chipotle without realizing it.
When I found out about the bacon, I immediately felt ill and queezy, and am not exaggerating when the thought of what I had been eating for the past decade nearly made me through (sic) up.
I find it unacceptable that it is not posted on the menu that the pinto beans contain pork or any other type of meat. My experience has proved that, even if Chipotle employees are instructed to inform patrons of the bacon's presence, they rarely (if ever) do.
I am of the belief that immediate action should be changed to fix this problem, which strikes me as quite serious. I suggest posting the bacon as an asterix to the "Pinto" listing on the menu, or calling it "Pinto and bacon".
I have also taken to Twitter to air my grievances and to see if anybody else has had problems with this.
