date:Feb 04, 2014
shes, including a dish of white beans and ham, which investigators suspected as the cause of the outbreak. They werent able to determine exactly how the beans became contaminated, however, and instead listed a number of possibilities, including potential cross-contamination from the horse trough in which the beans were soaked.
But the event organizers say that the 250 pounds of beans were soaked in a brand-new trough lined with plastic the way they have done it for the past 15 years of the fun