The secret life of Alaska’s bagged salads

Fri, September 14, 2007
Posted in Alaska News

Wherever you live in Alaska, or in the United States, if you buy one of those bags of prewashed salad, there’s a good chance it came from California’s Salinas Valley. One company in the valley known as “America’s salad bowl” controls nearly half the U.S. market for bagged salad. John Ryan of member station KTOO was in California last week and reports on the controversies shadowing your salad.

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2 Comments to “The secret life of Alaska’s bagged salads”

Bonnie-Sue on September 16, 2007 at 3:12 pm

This is a really nice piece. Kudos to John Ryan. One small thing, I believe Alaska actually is in the United States. Perhaps that’s just a misprint in the lede?

Keep up the good work!
John Ryan on September 17, 2007 at 10:01 am

Thanks, Bonnie-Sue. My thought was that, heard aloud, the implied ‘or anywhere else’ comes through before ‘in the United States’. But in print, you’re right, it looks like I’ve made Alaska the latest member of the United Nations. Oops.

So, for the record:
Wherever you live in Alaska, or anywhere else in the United States, if you buy one of those bags of prewashed salad, there’s a good chance it came from California’s Salinas Valley.