So...you want me to leggo my Eggo?

@Smashville_makes his own comments at home: Meggo?

Good thing you added a wikilink at the bottom. Saved me the effort of typing "wiki listeria" in my awesome bar.

@Smashville_makes his own comments at home: Damn, if only there were that edit button.

Mummm, mumm. Just like Moma used to make.

This time it's actually true - I do make my own waffles at home! And I've heard they could potentially be frozen and reheated, although they don't survive long enough 'round these parts.

It would be horrible to think I could get meningitis because I ate breakfast.

@floraposte: I know...I was like...but that was the major punchline...and the phone rang...and now sad Smashville is going to eat a listeria waffle and send his gold off to some fat ass in a tracksuit in Florida.

@larrymac: I make my own waffles with the cash I pay at the register at Waffle House :)

new tagline---"Eggo Waffles: They're a Lis-te-rical part of a balanced breakfast" ?

Listeria? WTF is that? It sounds like one of those old 1800's diseases.

@parad0x360:
Well, it wouldn't be because you ate breakfast. It coule be because you ate this product for breakfast. If this turns up in my Quaker oatmeal, I'm gonna have a problem.

Listeria doesnt so much sound like something that could kill me if in my waffles as much as it does a magical place where I could ride leprechauns on saddles and eat trees made of toster struddles.

@bloggerX: I think it was also a Def Leppard album.

@Fresh-Fest-1986: Toster struddles sound so much nastier than toaster strudels. Not being a grammar Nazi, just pointing out that pronouncing your misspelling out loud leaves a displeasing sound on the ear.

@Smashville_makes his own comments at home: Thats how they say it in Prussia.

I have no idea how they say anything in Prussia or if it even really exists.

@larrymac: I was going to say the very same thing, right down to the "this time it's actually true" part!

I got lucky because my dad decided that the Belgian waffle maker he bought was too big to keep around his place. It has a happy home with me.

A delicious waffley home...

@Smashville_makes his own comments at home: I thought it was a mouthwash...

@Fresh-Fest-1986: Add a lot more diarrhea to that theory and you'll be close.

@floraposte: Why is it that Consumerist didn't get the updated comment system from the rest of Gawker? They're the only one of the former Gawker network sites that DIDN'T get the update with the edit button.

@parad0x360: You won't get Listeria meningitis from eating it. Listeria causes a mild to severe gastroenteritis in immunocompetent people. It tends to cause nastier things in infants and immunodeficient people.

@aloria: I thought it was a plant...

Listeria my Eggo!

/Sorry, I couldn't resist.

@Révolution: Its been done to death. They chose not to, apparently. And good thing too. The edit button was good, but the rest of the upgrades were designed specifically to make us more productive in real life.

@larrymac: I hate home made waffles, they're too thick. I think I need to fiddle around with the recipe more.

@Révolution: It's a floorwax! No, it's a breath mint! No, it's both!

@bloggerX: My first thought was "yet another plastic thingy?"

@MostlyHarmless: You know, I was actually trying to refrain from looking it up in wikipedia because I wanted to stop wasting time online. But now they have made it convenient. Dammit

I had one of those old school southern mothers who cooked every day from scratch so I never even tried foods like Eggos or Easy Mac until they were forced on me in college. Powedered cheese still frightens me, but the Eggos were life changing. I haven't eaten them in a while, but this news saddens me.

@Fresh-Fest-1986: It's the newest fantasy movie franchise: "Chonicles of Listeria."

I saw some Eggos with COLOR star trek pictures on them at the grocery store earlier this week. I carried them around in my cart for the nearly the entire trip before realizing that I don't even eat Eggos. I don't even really like Star Trek. I just thought they were so dang cool looking. Stupid marketing.

@larrymac: I would but I hate cleaning the waffle iron. :P

@rubyfrog: Including pregnant women. Does not do good things to the fetus.

What is wrong with making your own waffles?
It isn't that hard and you know what is going into it.

@larrymac: I make my own listeria at home...

Seriously though, no waffle iron here, so no homemade waffles for me.

@larrymac: I just make a double batch and freeze the extra. My toaster's lame, so I nuke 'em for 20-30 seconds first and then pop them in the toaster. They don't have that tasty listeria tang, though.

@Smashville_makes his own comments at home: I think "Toster Struddles" sounds like a Dickens character. A rotund porter, routinely siphoning off some of the cash and the beer at the pub.

Listeria Lane...Isn't that the place where the Desperate Housewives live?

Since I literally just polished off my first box of Buttermilk Eggos in about 5 years and have no idea what the box said, is there a way to find out where these products shipped?

@Vandelay Import Export: I have the best waffle recipe too. No Poop eggos for this house.

I'm suddenly very glad that I bought the cheap Meijer store brand of artificially flavored frozen circular blueberry breakfast waffles instead. Being a cheapskate wins again!

@aloria: I was going to go with "an obsession with Top 10 lists" or "an obsession with search engines (also see Search Overload)."

@LastVigilante: Not if you find a delicious holiday-themed store brand waffle that never appears again.

Why, God...why did you have to take away my Hollyberry waffles??? WHY??? *Sobs uncontrollably*

On topic: My roommate's one weakness is Eggo waffles, so I should go check to see if his are part of the recall. Then again, I live in CA so this may not apply to me. Better be safe than sorry...

@MostlyHarmless: I was thinking of the Oregon Trail video game. I thought it was that disease Jimmy always died from but that was dysentery.

@larrymac:
i freeze and toast this with leftover pancakes. they taste even better when they are crisped up in the toaster.

Eggos aren't waffles!!

@Vandelay Import Export: @The_Legend: Hopefully they won't be living there for much longer, am I right???

Just in case you want trichinella instead of listeria in your waffles, try this:

Stir a couple spoonfuls of corn meal into your favorite waffle batter. After you ladle the batter on the iron, lay a piece or 2 of bacon atop the batter, and close that iron, cooking as usual. Don't worry about the grease from the bacon, as it gets absorbed by the waffles. And the cornmeal + bacon fat provides excellent crunch.

@Smashville_makes his own comments at home: worthy of a ♥, but you need an avatar