text_1: Bacteria formed on cut onions and potatoes are responsible for more food poisoning cases than spoiled mayonnaise.
text_2: The one instance we found that fingered bulb onions as the transmitter in a food poisoning case was the 1984 sickening of 28 people in Peoria, Illinois. Botulism was passed to those unfortunate souls by the sauteed onions used on a restaurant’s “patty melt” (a cheeseburger on rye with sauteed onions).