I’ve never used Peter Pan, thankfully (too much sugar), and the stuff that the food bank gives out is some off-brand that I’d never heard of until I had to sign up for the food bank. The local deer love the hell out of it, btw. When a big dump of brand-name food comes into the food bank system, 9 times out of 10, it’s something that’s either about to expire or about to be recalled. But hey, poor motherfuckers shouldn’t bitch, right? We’re not as “entitled” to gubmint protection as, say, GOP donors.
Thanks for the kind words, though. Always appreciated.
I did miss the DelMonte alert, though — hopefully no canned tomatoes on that list?
]]>Wheat gluten is found in gravy mixes, flour, all kinds of things as a thickener, and not just as a meat substitute. That’s why they should have announced the distributor, so food processors who use wheat gluten could check their purchases to determine if they used gluten from that distributor. For Del Monte to show up at the party at this late date means that the word hasn’t gone out. Del Monte would have wanted to be part of a multi-brand recall, not singled out like this.
]]>I have a jar of the cheapest possible peanut butter in my pantry, and I’m throwing it out… now. It’s not worth the risk.
Annti, which “Cancer Alley” do you live in? I’m in Houston, across town from Pasadena/Deer Park, which is what the local public health people refer to as “Cancer Alley” because of all the refineries and chemical plants nearby… and they call it that for regrettably good reason. Stay healthy, Annti; we need you.
]]>Since you mentioned food banks. One of the people that lives in the apartments my Mother manages received two jars of peanut butter at a food bank, and didn’t eat it. So my Mother took it to give to another tenant who had her grandchildren visit a lot. I checked them when the salmonella warning came out and they were both from the tainted batch. It makes you wonder.
]]>Well, after I stopped breathing there for a minute, I realized that I’ve only used the Dollar General brand cat food a couple of times, and it was months ago, and I haven’t fed *my* cats the Pounce treats (or any cats, for that matter) in about a YEAR (they cost almost a buck more than the other hairball treats), so it looks like we’ve been spared the sickle again.
I just have to check on The Dick’s wolf-hybrid dog, because I’m pretty sure that he’s fed her Ol’Roy dry food at some point… *sigh*
I’m not that skeered of the “food” contamination for myself, personally — if 36 years in Cancer Alley hasn’t killed me, I doubt that a bad TV dinner here or there is gonna do it. But then, I *do* get the occasional commodity from the local food bank, and where would a corporation dump iffy food, if not on the po’ mofos?
We gotta find a new planet. This one is shot to hell.
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