I've never heard of ice cream with cookie dough in it either, sounds too sweet for my taste ;)
I did have ben & jerry's in Ireland (don't know if you've heard of it, ben & jerry's I mean not Ireland [img]tongue.gif[/img] ) that might have had some cookie dough in it but I can't really remember, I wasn't very sober that month.

http://www.salmonella.org/info.html

Almost everything you wanted to know about Salmonella. It's bad news, and the kind we're referring to is closely related to Salmonella tyhpi (typhoid fever) and E. coli.

It doesn't say how Salmonella actually infects egg material except that closely packed hen-houses are a common breeding ground. I don't feel like reading bacteriology articles for an hour to find out the specifics [img]tongue.gif[/img]

From another site.
http://www.hmnews.org/article2724.html

So depending on the product - pasteurized eggs = eat up!

I love cookie dough too. I don't currently have a fridge though, which would put me at considerably higher risk for bad eggs :D

Yeah, sorry I wasn't clear on that. Salmonella is a nasty thing that you can catch from poultry, but it's not a hereditary disease.

My egg allergy isn't, as far as I know, hereditary either. It developed in relation to a string of events in Japan. Small amounts don't do much, but it's generally a given that I'll refuse to eat anything with obvious large quantities of egg in it. Which is a shame, since I really used to enjoy a good omlet or scrambled eggs. And yes, unfortunately, you can develop allergies like this.

I'm actually not surprised that people haven't heard of cookie dough ice cream, before I left the US, it was increasingly hard to find anywhere. Guess it wasn't a popular flavor choice where I lived or something.

I prefer my cookie dough baked into cookies. I do love cookies-and-cream icecream though, does that have cookie dough or bits of cooked cookie? I don't usually eat raw cookie dough, I love uncooked cake batter but cookie dough not so much.

I love the word cookie though! It has such a yummy sound :D . I grew up calling cookies biscuits, as we tend to do in Australia, and usually I prefer to stick with Australian terms for things rather than use the Americanisms, but cookie sounds so much yummier than biscuit.

Cookie dough is a common ice cream flavor in the midwest.... chocolate chip cookie dough, to be specific :D

Man... I'm hungry now...

These days most store bought products that contain cookie dough will either say they have no eggs in them or the eggs are pasturized.

And apparently the Midwest has the highest rate of cookie-dough eaters! 46% according to one of my links :D

And apparently the Midwest has the highest rate of cookie-dough eaters! 46% according to one of my links :D </font>[/QUOTE]<font color=skyblue>That's because the South is too busy eating cookie dough to take the poll. :D </font>

Need... cookie.... doug...h....

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