sun-sentinel.com wires

March 29 2007, 12:06 PM EDT

An Italian company has recalled eight brands of olives sold in the U.S. because they may cause botulism, a deadly form of food poisoning, regulators said.

The complete article can be viewed at:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/local/sfl-329recallolives,0,5994028.story?coll=sfla-business-headlines

Botulism is no joke.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/critically-ill-8212-12-weeks-after-nachos/2007/04/14/1175971419541.html

All I need to know does vodka sterilize them olives?

The olives I have been gorging on say they are Spanish, so I guess I am gonna be ok?

But do they say it with an Italian accent?

"Wooo, I heard it from the grape-vine..."

Oh, wait, those were California Raisens.  Never mind.

Heh...

My dad and some coworkers dressed up like those raisins and did that song at some work-related function when I was a kid. I remember getting quite a kick out of it.

I can't make out their accent. Their speech is kind of garbled till I suck the pimento out, and usually they've not much time to speak after that.