Retiring Guy's Digest: Taylor Farms, chopped

Friday, July 17, 2026

Taylor Farms, chopped

As noted on the company's homepage: No Taylor Farms branded salads or kits have been identified among the ongoing cyclospora outbreak.

Nonetheless, the company has a public relations nightmare on its hands. (The slang term "chopped" is trending, i.e., not yet an official dictionary entry, as based on Merriam-Webster's citation files.)

Headline: New York Times, 6/17/2026

Dictionary definition: Merriam-Webster

Julie Creswell, Christina Jewett, and Kevin Draper report:

Taylor Farms, one of the nation’s largest producers of leafy greens and fresh vegetables, said on Friday that it would remove its products at the center of a cyclosporiasis outbreak that has sickened more than 1,600 people.

Based in California, the family-owned company is in the spotlight after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention linked an outbreak of cyclosporiasis to iceberg lettuce that Taylor Farms supplied to certain Taco Bell restaurants, according to two federal officials who declined to be named Thursday night.

Other vocabulary posts:

2026
Eighty-six. (6/12)

Overshare. (6/11)

Manosphere. (4/2)

Oomph. (4/2)

Retarded. (3/31)

Noob. (3/31)

Shoegaze. (2/5)

Gonzo. (1/22)

2025

Hypergamy. (7/31)

Situationship. (7/30)