A Sugary Nightmare

The Cronut Burger is a health hazard to start with: it’s a beef patty stuck between two doughnut-croissant pastries with a maple-bacon jam topping. It’s not the best snack for your diet, but it owes its bad reputation to a tragic event that took place in 2013. The site of the disaster? The Canadian National Exhibition.
One of the Exhibition’s food vendors sold Cronut Burgers and caused about 150 people to get sick from food poisoning! Public health officials said the poisoning was caused by the presence of a bacteria known as staphylococcus aureus. We know too much sugar is bad for you, but this burger upped the ante…

