RE: Togo's

[Guest guest]

Here are some things to suspect: I

don’t know if Togo’s fries their own corn chips, but most Mexican

restaurants do, and often, thought the tortillas are corn, the oil they are

fried in is contaminated (through frying such items as flour tortillas or chili

rellanos). If the corn chips were an item purchased by Togo’s, you could investigate

the source.

Two less likely options would be the

cheese and guacamole. I have heard of shredded cheese being processed

with flour, but this is very rare. I would also question the guacamole; I

have never found guacamole that contained gluten, but I have heard of soy sauce

being added to guacamole; they could also be adding some other unusual ingredient.

I don’t want to make you overly suspicious, but, these are some possible

but rare sources of gluten contamination.

If you want to eat at Togo’s in the

future, I would suggest you go there at a time when they are not busy (perhaps

even arrange a time to meet with the manager) and ask some specific questions

about their ingredients and practices in order to determine what you can safely

eat there. You could also spend some time watching them prepare the

food to determine possible contamination vectors.

Pam Newbury

From:

[mailto: ] On Behalf Of CJ

Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007

8:37 PM

Subject: [ ] Togos

I looked on the web site and found nothing. Asked in a

store and the

clerk looked at me like I farted on them.... I had the same experience

at Cold Stone... They do list ingredients on the net but I was in a

store with my son...The sent letters to both and the responce from Cold

Stone was canned and unbeleivable.....

Anyway all the managers at work were eating Togos and despite my better

judgement, well lack there of I ordered a Taco salad with no chili...

Had the lettuce, sour cream, cheese, guacamole, corn chips, tomato and

thats it... 45 to an hour late I felt the rumblings in my right side,

then the left then my day was pretty much done... Plain rice for dinner

a few hours later was about all I could take....

Does anybody know if there was anything in what I ate other than the

fact that the clerk prolly cut bread over my salad and used the same

knife to cut bread as they did to scoop the sour cream... The lettuce

in my salad could of been pulled off a sandwich that someone didnt

want.... Just looking to narrow it down....